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Weekly Improvement Megathread - Jan 7th (hexbear.net)
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Hi comrades, welcome to the Improvement Megathread! unity

I plan to post a new weekly megathread here every Sunday. I think Sunday is a good day to review the previous week and make some plans for the following week. If somebody else wants to post a new megathread anytime, just let me know.

Here are some ideas for discussion:

  • Do you want to share something you've done in the previous week?

Even if you did only 1 push-up, read 1 page, meditated for 1 minute, or touched 1 blade of grass, let us know about it. When it comes to making progress, everything counts. The most important thing is to make progress, no matter how small.

  • What would you like to do next week?
  • What aspect of life would you like to improve?
  • Do you have any streaks? For example, "sober for one day." Feel free to post your streak every day in this thread.
  • If you don't have a continuous streak, did you manage to abstain from something for a day or more?
  • Did you come across some useful information or resource that might help others?

Of course, this is not a definitive list. And feel free to make a separate post in the comm for any of these topics. This is just a megathread for all the stuff that you want to share but don't feel like making a new post.

Let me know if you have any suggestions.

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[-] super_mario_69@hexbear.net 5 points 10 months ago

Trying to kinda-sorta partake in Jamuary this year. A couple of years ago patricipated in the "proper way" by making one jam/short track per day for the entire month, and while it was cool and all it was fucking exhausting and started feeling like a god damn job by day 4.

This year my goal is a bit more lenient: Spend at least 30 seconds making (or just try to make) any kind of music, every day. Tapping out a rhythm on my lap, playing a stupid melody on a piano, slapping together a cheesy acid bassline, wander up and down a minor scale a few times, whatever! Just go with it! If you're done after 30 seconds, that's ok! If you keep going, great! No pressure, no expectations.

30 seconds though? Really? Yes! It's absolutely enough for me to get the creativity and inspiration going. Every day I've sat down in front of my music machine of choice and thought "well let's get these 30 god damn idiot seconds out the way so I can play video games in good conscience", and then discovered that woah, this is actually kind of more fun than video games, and gotten completely hyper focused. This weekend I made a heavily swung blues/boogie type thing with vocoded lyrics and a 303 bassline. I started from the boogie thing because I'd been singing a silly song to my cats with that melody and I couldn't get it out of my head and wanted to do something with it and then it just kind of snowballed from there. It's stupid as hell, but making it made me a better musician. Today I think I'll start out by recording a short old-school jungle type drum pattern with wacky syncopation and hella snare hits and work from there. It's gonna be fun.

[-] moonlake@hexbear.net 2 points 10 months ago

Haven't heard of Jamuary, it sounds cool! I also like your approach of 30 seconds every day, I should do that too with my guitar

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