The Confessions Thread

[kbit]

It sounds like it would be very conflicting. I hope sometime you can just let yourself go and get it all out.

[dubkitty]

i was like that for years in my teens and twenties...my parents were alcoholic and violent, and so when i was about twelve i decided i wasn't going to cry any more and shut that part of my emotions down. that part of my emotional makeup didn't start coming out again until i was about twenty or twenty-one, and only did so gradually. i guess it was an extended PTSD thing. i had to believe that it was all right to let it out, that i could LET myself have that kind of level of feeling without it eating me up, because when i closed down it was because i couldn't bear it. and i was a crazy intense, ADD-before-it-was-defined, wildly emotional kid, so for me not to be able to take it...it was heavy.

[alexa.]

different parents, but the same thing
and it's killing me right now and I'm scared of letting go into it and not coming back

[the_carl]

I have half of a problem set on patent law due in five hours, and I've been watching replays from StarCraft 2 tournaments. I've never even played StarCraft 2. I'm pretty sure my procrastination abilities are unrivaled.

[yallerhon]

I've been watching replays from StarCraft 2 tournaments. I've never even played StarCraft 2.

Fuck, I do that too!

My confession is that today, I just started a new job as a guitar teacher.

Half the students read sheet music (as in, not tablature).

I can't read sheet music.

[jfrey]

I've never even played StarCraft 2.

You need to fix this right now.

[IEatCats]

I've been watching replays from StarCraft 2 tournaments. I've never even played StarCraft 2.

Fuck, I do that too!

My confession is that today, I just started a new job as a guitar teacher.

Half the students read sheet music (as in, not tablature).

I can't read sheet music.

I always feel like an idiot for being unable to read sheet music Glad I'm not alone

[kbit]

I have half of a problem set on patent law due in five hours, and I've been watching replays from StarCraft 2 tournaments. I've never even played StarCraft 2. I'm pretty sure my procrastination abilities are unrivaled.

[Jeff-7]

I can read sheet music to some degree, definitely not good enough to read a piece without pause while playing though. It annoys me to no end.

[kbit]

"Take the Veil Cerpin Taxt" just came up on shuffle and now I want to get really baked and listen to De-Loused all the way through. I've always wanted to do that and never had.

[alexa.]

Baked for 2 days going. Maaaaaaaan, I needed this to chill the fuck out.

[unownunown]

I've been watching replays from StarCraft 2 tournaments. I've never even played StarCraft 2.

Fuck, I do that too!

My confession is that today, I just started a new job as a guitar teacher.

Half the students read sheet music (as in, not tablature).

I can't read sheet music.

use guitar pro to learn, it displays tablature under the score (and you can eventually turn the tablature off!)

i love that program so intensely.

[IEatCats]

I've been watching replays from StarCraft 2 tournaments. I've never even played StarCraft 2.

Fuck, I do that too!

My confession is that today, I just started a new job as a guitar teacher.

Half the students read sheet music (as in, not tablature).

I can't read sheet music.

use guitar pro to learn, it displays tablature under the score (and you can eventually turn the tablature off!)

i love that program so intensely.

I used to use it to write stuff. I have a couple GP4, 5 and 6 files laying around from when I was in high school. It's such an amazing program.

[yallerhon]

Thanks guys, I'll check out Guitar Pro

The students are 9 to 13 years old, learning really simple stuff, so I'm not stressing too much.

[behndy]

shit. i have NO idea what i'm doing. when somebody talks about going 1 to 4 then resolving to the 5 (that could be total bullshit. again, i know NOTHING) i have zero idea what that means. like, i've had people sit down and explain scale structure and i get the concept, but i'm a musical IDIOT. i have no idea what you're s'posed to do ever in anything. i know my way around the fretboard ok and i have patterns that i enjoy, but that's all i think in, is patterns. i have to stop and puzzle out where i'm at if i want to explain to somebody what root notes i'm going from to.

seriously, i am RIDICULOUSLY uneducated about the instrument i love playing.