• @[email protected]
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    3 months ago

    MAGAt 1: How could a woman speak so intelligently and run circles around Trump? It’s almost like our entire view of women as lesser than men on every level is somehow wron-

    MAGAt 2: A MAN TOLD HER WHAT TO SAY WITH MAGIC EARRINGS

    MAGAt 1: Praise Republican Jesus! You figured it out!

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      163 months ago

      Reminds me a lot of this video (tw: typical Xbox live homophobia).

      People in this clip assume the guy has somehow memorized every song ever written. It doesn’t occur to them that with enough study and practice (and talent), a person can more or less figure out how to play a song just as easily as you can hum it.

      I remember being super impressed when my high school friend banged out the intro to Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground on the first try (it’s just power chords). Then I went to college and met a dozen people who were similarly talented on their instruments of choice.

      Anyway, it makes me wonder if people who think Harris was fed lines just haven’t met enough people to understand that, while commendable, her achievement on Tuesday was not supernatural by any means. Some people are just that good at what they do.

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        Also, Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground is a very simple descending chord progression that basically just steps down according to the minor scale (if I recall correctly. Don’t have a guitar in front of me and haven’t played the song in years).

        Stuff like that is much easier to figure out by ear than more intricate melodies and chord progressions.

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          13 months ago

          Oh for sure. And that’s kind of my point. As someone who didn’t know a lot of music or know any musicians, it was goddamn magic.

          But meet a few musicians, and you start to realize that it’s just a learnable skill.