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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  • Mokey [none/use name]
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    10 months ago

    Yeah, that sounds right but your terminology needs more work. Long story short, break it down and go slower.

    The motion is a dance and you need to learn the steps for each hand. The other thing is that you need to be able to audiate triplets and really be able to feel them and every partition within the triplet.

    You might need to work backwards and practice playing and audiating triplets to a metronome. Good shuffles of that family demand really clean triplets.

    Separate the hands, don't try to do them at the same time if theyre not coordinating right.

    The right hand (arm, wrist, however you're orchestrating it) is doing the shuffle. When you do a downstroke to start the shuffle. There's a potential for a free upstroke so there should be an idea of motion efficiency and getting strokes for free without any wasted energy. If you're trying to hammer out the shuffle and you feel like you have to work to get all the notes, you're doing it wrong. Atleast for now imo.

    The left hand is filling in the second partition of the triplet. Utilize the tap stroke for this. Put a metronome at like 60, count triplets outloud and try to just play that middle triplet. 1 + a, 2 + a, so on.

    After that you put them together, slowly, and then build the tempo.

    • super_mario_69 [he/him, comrade/them]
      ·
      10 months ago

      Thanks for the advice!! I'm getting there, slowly but surely! I've been kinda lazy with the terminology for sure, I should probably start grinding that part in before I build (more) bad habits.

      • Mokey [none/use name]
        ·
        10 months ago

        I hope it's helpful! Feel free to DM me if you need help working out terminology.