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Isabella - 20 years - USA - @chiavettesociety - @mayor-of is my Animal Crossing blog
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pick your battles. pick… pick fewer battles than that. put some battles back. that’s too many 

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Free Online Language Courses

Here is a masterpost of MOOCs (massive open online courses) that are available, archived, or starting soon. I think they will help those that like to learn with a teacher or with videos.  You can always check the audit course or no certificate option so that you can learn for free.

American Sign Language

Arabic

Catalan

Chinese

Beginner

Intermediate

Dutch

English

Faroese

Finnish

French

Beginner

Intermediate & Advanced

Frisian

German

Beginner

Intermediate

Gwich’in

Hebrew

Hindi

Icelandic

Indonesian

Irish

Italian

Beginner

Intermediate & Advanced

Japanese

Kazakh

Korean

Beginner

Intermediate

Nepali

Norwegian

Portuguese

Russian

Beginner

Advanced

Spanish

Beginner

Intermediate

Advanced

Swedish

Ukrainian

Welsh

Multiple Languages

Last updated: April 1, 2018

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anarcho-bard

Some things I’ve learnt about perfect pitch from studying music psychology

Also disclaimer: many of these are still theories, but at the current point in time are widely accepted

I also don’t have perfect pitch, I just find it interesting tbh

(Absolute pitch is just another name for perfect pitch)

  • First of all, everyone is born with perfect pitch. Everyone. Over time, our brains process that this isn’t necessary, so we instead process pitch relatively. Only those who have made use of their absolute pitch (through early musical training or whatever) keep it
  • As fantastic as perfect pitch may seem, it can be an obstacle for musicians. Because melodies are defined by pitch and duration relations, relative pitch is the more musical way of processing music. That’s why we can all sing, for example, happy birthday, in different keys but still be able to recognise it as happy birthday. Because of the different ways people with absolute pitch process music, this is much harder and more abstract for them
  • By extension, while it may not be harder, aural skills would definitely be processed very differently for someone with perfect pitch. My guess is that, when recognising intervals, while someone with relative pitch, once trained, can hear and intervals and recognise it for what it is, someone with absolute pitch would probably identify the note names and then figure out the interval the same way you would if you were reading the interval in sheet music.

Anyway that’s just all I read about in my psychology text, feel free to add on/ comment or whatever

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Do you keep a practice journal? You should. Here’s a template for keeping your own practice journal. It also works for recording what happens during your lesson.

Goals:

Warmups:

  • Thoughts:

Technical practice:

  • Thoughts:

Piece to work on:

  • Aspect to work on:
  • Measures to work on:
  • Thoughts:

Piece to work on:

  • Aspect to work on:
  • Measures to work on:
  • Thoughts:

Piece to work on:

  • Aspect to work on:
  • Measures to work on:
  • Thoughts:

Goal reflection:

Goals for next practice:

A filled example might look like this:

Goals: Work on tone - keep everything grounded and “below the water line”

Warmups: Mi-me-mi-me 8-5-3-1–3-5-8-5-3-1. Flooey: 5-4-3-2-1

  • Thoughts: Thinking about singing out the bottom of my spine keeps me more grounded.

Technical practice: [scales, arpeggios, and any technical work would go here.]

  • Thoughts: [Reflect on how the practice felt and what went well/not well]

Piece to work on: “Man sagt mir”

  • Aspect to work on: Memorization, legato
  • Measures to work on: Whole piece
  • Thoughts: The end went better today. Remember to breath early and low, prepping for the high note before the start of the phrase.

Piece to work on: “Allez-moi, laissez moi seul”

  • Aspect to work on: Singing lower in the body, while keeping diction
  • Measures to work on: 2nd half
  • Thoughts: Leaps and dynamic changes catch me up - practice more on a drone and in a single dynamic, that helped today.

Goal reflection: There was improvement today, I need to keep that base of spine in mind!

Goals for next practice: Diction diction diction

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hjartasalt

Mods are asleep post forbidden tits

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anothermarkiplierfan

Perfectly balanced as all things should be…

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fuckyahumor

oh nooooooo

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fuckyahumor

last time i reblogged this it wasnt balanced I’m glad it’s ok now!!!

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lubricates

everything should be balanced Yinyang

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vampiregirl2345

Vegans of tumblr, listen up. Harvesting agave in the quantities required so you dont have to eat honey is killing mexican long-nosed bats. They feed off the nectar and pollinate the plants. They need the agave. You want to help the environment? Go back to honey. Your liver and thyroid will thank you, as well. Agave is 90% fructose, which can cause a host of issues. Bye.

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Just so you know, this is just my username blog. Don’t really post here anymore. All of my activity goes on over at @mayor-of. 💕☺️

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