MrGando

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by MrGando 22d ago
And here in SF we have like 55%? Been waiting for it for 10 years in my hood.
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by MrGando 3mo ago
100% agreed. It's interesting since I see over-abstraction often abused by "clever" engineers (sometimes quite experienced actually). Sometimes I wonder if they do that to make themselves indispensable on purpose and create t
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by MrGando 3mo ago
I once had to work with a system that was refactored and abstracted away heavily to use Redux. It didn't work then, the implementation had way too many abstractions, doing any change meant you had to touch dozens of files. It was insan
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by MrGando 3mo ago
Dude, are you me? :D
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by MrGando 10mo ago
Learn to play Jazz. It's like learning a language and you can "speak it" with a lot of people. It's also as hard as you want it to be if you're serious ;)
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by MrGando 2y ago
Amateur Jazz Pianist here. Purchased. I love pianoteq, but also tracking how much I'm practicing every week is great, and love the idea of the bookmarks.
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by MrGando 3y ago
Just came here to tay that Patlabor is pretty far from "obscure" as an anime. In the late 90s/early 2000's it was pretty big, although anime wasn't big in the United States yet and that could explain the author&#x27
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by MrGando 3y ago
Yeah, he's a monster. I'm jealous, would be awesome to hear how did you get that opportunity. :)
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by MrGando 3y ago
Sullivan, in terms of where he's taking jazz piano is comparable to the greats in terms of impact at his current age/maturity. This is what Brad said about Sulli last May, when he saw him live in Amsterdam (where Brad lives) >
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by MrGando 3y ago
This is a very uninformed opinion that I see very often. In bebop, LH can be deceptively simple (but actually rhythmically it's not so simple). However things have dramatically changed, Brad Mehldau who's a foundational modern jaz
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by MrGando 3y ago
nit: It's "Casa de Papel", just made me curious about how deep your Spanish goes.
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by MrGando 3y ago
A few days ago I asked ChatGPT to help me find an argument to perform "some filtering operation" with a world class command line tool. It confidently aswered. ./tool arg1 param1 arg2 param2 --filtering-operation param3 I went
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by MrGando 3y ago
This is great, runs very fast in Chrome for me.
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by MrGando 4y ago
I'm pretty into wine, not in the industry though. But I've tried a lot of stuff (from garbo wines, to stuff like Rayas, Haut Brion, Romanee Conti, etc... some pretty heavy hitters), and I agree that money is not the driving factor
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by MrGando 4y ago
You're right! I remember actually trying the Arturia a while ago just to get that sound. Regarding the Oberheim brass... it's incredible :) , I probably wanted it to be the OB.
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by MrGando 4y ago
The brass you hear in Vangelis is probably an Oberheim OB-Xa, incredible brass sounds. The band toto made those sounds extremely popular here in the states too. Google who the Porcaro brothers were (well one is still alive and kicking :) )
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by MrGando 5y ago
I'll give you money for this. Can I buy one?
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by MrGando 5y ago
I like Pax, if you can try the Syrah's from Jolie Laide... the Halcon Vineyard one is among the best Syrah I've tried in the US :)
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by MrGando 5y ago
Jazz Piano.
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by MrGando 5y ago
Love the comment! I honestly think California's most interesting wines being produced now are Syrah's. Crazy good stuff there made by the newer generations. Agreed on Cabernet Sauvignon. Regarding Pinot Noir, there's just not
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by MrGando 5y ago
The defining feature of Cheval Blanc is the huge amount of Cabernet Franc that goes into the blend, not the Merlot in general... some vintages like the 2011 one have less Merlot than Cabernet Franc. Yes, it's a right bank Bordeaux, but
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by MrGando 5y ago
There's very good teachers doing zoom lessons these days. And I think Taubman technique is the sort of thing that you'll need a teacher so that the concepts can be applied to how you're playing. Start here https://
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by MrGando 5y ago
This is great advice. And I completely relate, after two years of working on Jazz (one pretty seriously), I can say that I feel like I'm being born again as a Pianist. It's extremely challenging and for me, all the classical lugga
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by MrGando 5y ago
I think it's very interesting and there's a lot to be gained by working on it (which I'm actually starting to do). The hardest scale in piano is C major probably, or at least one of the hardest ones... just started with Taubm
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by MrGando 5y ago
You can read only up to a certain level (not super high). Out of the context of music, it would be like thinking about learning to play Tennis to a very high-level just by reading books. It's just extremely unlikely these days. In Pian
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by MrGando 5y ago
It's both the way the technique is described and the name given to it "thumb over" that are unclear and misleading. I know the technique, and in my years of practice (semi-pro) I've never seen it described anything like
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by MrGando 5y ago
The methods that work and are the kind of thing that any good teacher will tell you to do over a conversation in a coffee shop, meaning that you don't even need a piano to learn about them. Yes they do work, eg: learning a few bars at
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by MrGando 5y ago
There's a specific thing I always remember about this book, which is that the author recommends the "thumb over" technique for scales. I would never, ever suggest a beginner to approach scales like that. Thumb rotation is sup
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by MrGando 5y ago
Have to chime-in here as a piano player since age 7 (so been going for ~28 now), who about 2 years ago got very serious about Jazz. I have stumbled across this book many times, I have read it. It's the single most controversial book th

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