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Petrovsk Mizinski 
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 Posted: August 19 2008 at 10:19 |
 MikeEnRegalia wrote:
HughesJB4 wrote:
Well indeed, take music for example.
Only 1 in 10000 have perfect pitch..... 0.01 per cent of the population.
But yet, how do you explain why in the field of music, so many people without that natural advantage are still geniuses and/or virtuosos?
Hardwork.
As I believe, even those without perfect pitch, and even just an IQ of maybe 105 or so can be a musical genius if they are willing to put in the hard yards.
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I don't have perfect pitch, although my mother has it. But I make up for it by relative pitch ... I can identify intervals and chord sequences quite well.
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Indeed. For me, I sometimes have problems identifying single notes in solos, but for example, I was learning the sweep picking solo from Selkies :the Endless Obsession and I was able to just determine almost straight away what the arpeggios were. It just seems so odd that I can hear whole streams of notes like that, but I guess that's where relative pitch can work for you 
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MovingPictures07
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Posted: August 19 2008 at 10:19 |
NaturalScience wrote:
Read through the past few pages - I'm one of those people that believes it's not the size of your brain, it's what you do with it that counts. I believe I'm a pretty intelligent individual but I am hampered by unbelievable laziness. |
I am as well. (On your first part)
I'd like to think I'm pretty intelligent as well, but when it comes to most things I try not to get too lazy. 
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VanderGraafKommandöh
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Posted: August 19 2008 at 10:19 |
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What on earth is going on?
High Jump silver
Women's 400 Metres gold
This is too good to be true.
Third in the medals table too... oh my!
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YesFan72
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Posted: August 19 2008 at 10:19 |
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Petrovsk Mizinski
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Posted: August 19 2008 at 10:20 |
I have to say, seeing Mike pop in was a bit unexpected 
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Padraic
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Posted: August 19 2008 at 10:20 |
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VanderGraafKommandöh
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Posted: August 19 2008 at 10:21 |
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YesFan72
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Posted: August 19 2008 at 10:21 |
MovingPictures07 wrote:
NaturalScience wrote:
Read through the past few pages - I'm one of those people that believes it's not the size of your brain, it's what you do with it that counts. I believe I'm a pretty intelligent individual but I am hampered by unbelievable laziness. |
I am as well. (On your first part)
I'd like to think I'm pretty intelligent as well, but when it comes to most things I try not to get too lazy. |
I can be lazy, but I still get things done when I'm supposed to. I guess I'm pretty intelligent, but then again, most people consider themselves to be above average in intelligence.
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Mikerinos
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Posted: August 19 2008 at 10:22 |
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Yo homies
I'm going record shopping in a bit, yay!
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Padraic
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Posted: August 19 2008 at 10:23 |
Mikerinos wrote:
Yo homies
I'm going record shopping in a bit, yay!
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Cool, post a list when you get back. 
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Petrovsk Mizinski
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Joined: December 24 2007
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Posted: August 19 2008 at 10:23 |
James wrote:
MovingPictures07 wrote:
Haha, I know what you mean there. Sometimes it's the easiest thing in the world to be your own biggest critic when you demand perfection, particularly in writing... but giving up won't help that at all. I've read a few of your reviews and they seem quite fine to me. With more time you'll be able to express your thoughts more clearly... maybe when writing you can take a break and then come back... or write all your thoughts down as quickly as you can and then come back and edit them or whatever. Again, methods will depend on the person here. I usually like doing all of my writing for something in one sitting if I can, so I keep the same train of thought. |
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Yes, I also tend to write in one sitting and if I stop, I find it almost impossible to come back to it at a later date. All of my poetry and short stories are pretty much all written there-and-then. I have unfinished short-stories too, that I cannot get my head round at the moment. I even have a half-written review that I need to finish.
However, very few of my reviews I'm satisfied with. My favourite is probably my Soft Machine "Floating World Live" one. It's the perfect length and doesn't waffle as much as some of my others.
I'm also my worse editor but luckily I have a few people who read through some of my work before I publish them.
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Indeed, your reviews are actually not bad, just you know, 10 reviews since 2005 isn't quite the blistering pace yet
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MovingPictures07
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Posted: August 19 2008 at 10:23 |
James wrote:
MovingPictures07 wrote:
Haha, I know what you mean there. Sometimes it's the easiest thing in the world to be your own biggest critic when you demand perfection, particularly in writing... but giving up won't help that at all. I've read a few of your reviews and they seem quite fine to me. With more time you'll be able to express your thoughts more clearly... maybe when writing you can take a break and then come back... or write all your thoughts down as quickly as you can and then come back and edit them or whatever. Again, methods will depend on the person here. I usually like doing all of my writing for something in one sitting if I can, so I keep the same train of thought. |
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Yes, I also tend to write in one sitting and if I stop, I find it almost impossible to come back to it at a later date. All of my poetry and short stories are pretty much all written there-and-then. I have unfinished short-stories too, that I cannot get my head round at the moment. I even have a half-written review that I need to finish.
However, very few of my reviews I'm satisfied with. My favourite is probably my Soft Machine "Floating World Live" one. It's the perfect length and doesn't waffle as much as some of my others.
I'm also my worse editor but luckily I have a few people who read through some of my work before I publish them.
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I'm satisfied with most of my writings, but I haven't written hardly any reviews yet. I plan to someday change that habit, but I'm not sure when. 
Sometimes having other people read through the work definitely does help, and I'll do that at times as well. I do like doing all of my work in one sitting; sometimes I have trouble coming back to my writings to edit/add, sometimes I don't. Depends I guess.
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VanderGraafKommandöh
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Posted: August 19 2008 at 10:24 |
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I get things done under pressure and it's annoying.
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laplace
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Posted: August 19 2008 at 10:24 |
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actually I think I'm pretty stupid
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MovingPictures07
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Posted: August 19 2008 at 10:25 |
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MovingPictures07
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Posted: August 19 2008 at 10:28 |
YesFan72 wrote:
MovingPictures07 wrote:
NaturalScience wrote:
Read through the past few pages - I'm one of those people that believes it's not the size of your brain, it's what you do with it that counts. I believe I'm a pretty intelligent individual but I am hampered by unbelievable laziness. |
I am as well. (On your first part)
I'd like to think I'm pretty intelligent as well, but when it comes to most things I try not to get too lazy. |
I can be lazy, but I still get things done when I'm supposed to. I guess I'm pretty intelligent, but then again, most people consider themselves to be above average in intelligence.
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You'd think so anyway.
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Petrovsk Mizinski
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Posted: August 19 2008 at 10:28 |
YesFan72 wrote:
NaturalScience wrote:
Hey Dahlia, I've got a recommendation for you that James can approve of - try Ahvak. They're an Israeli avant-prog band. I'll let James wax poetic about how great they are.
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I have Ahvak already. Maybe if I listen to it more often my mom will stop bugging me about Israeli-pride.
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YesFan72
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Posted: August 19 2008 at 10:28 |
Now I wonder if my mom will like Ahvak... I've been successful so far with Magma, SMM, and Henry Cow.
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Mikerinos
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Posted: August 19 2008 at 10:30 |
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Padraic
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Posted: August 19 2008 at 10:30 |
YesFan72 wrote:
I can be lazy, but I still get things done when I'm supposed to.
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I've always done what I needed to do but feel I could have achieved more if I had a better work ethic. I guess I'm mainly thinking of college which for me was summer camp for 4 years (luckily the school/degree had sufficient brand value that my mediocre performance wasn't an issue). Although in grad school when I was sufficiently motivated and interested, I was the top student in the program. If I could just maintain that level of motivation....
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