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Welcome!
Thanks for popping in. You might notice that there are a few broken links and a whole lot of not much here for now. There’ll be more to come, I promise!
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Colemak Continues…
I think I’m starting to get the hang of things… I am definitely still hobbled by the switching of layouts but with some patience and deliberate thought I can get my ideas out. This post is brought to you entirely in the Colemak layout and while it certainly isn’t a speed demon writing session it…
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Colemak Day 2
Nothing like relearning a skill to make you recognize how maladapted some of your practices are. I learned to touch type as a kid of the late 80s. By the time I took typing in Grade 8, in the 2.5 months allocated to that endeavour, I was already typing at 80+ wpm. I finished Keyboarding…
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The Changeup
I don’t know why, but I am really drawn to niche, non-standard practices. For instance, and I will expand on this in other posts, I’ve switched up the tuning on my double bass from fourths to fifths. I extol the virtues of fixed-gear bike riding. For some reason, I don’t mind increasing the degree of…
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Tying the room together
Last night’s tsunami advisory made for an unexpected and interesting hasty setup of a radio room in my house. I received the notification from the Alertable app after having a couple of lovely happy hour beers at the local pub with my son, and thought to myself that it would be a good time to…
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Christmas practice!
I’m in the process of working out my practice recording setup so that a) I can archive my sessions and listen back; and b) I can post a little of what I’m doing for a combination of selfish and feedback-seeking reasons. I had a quiet Christmas morning – Sara worked a 12-hour shift, necessitating her…
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practice!
I have a tendency to be fairly consistent in my warmups, so I’ll start labeling them here: Today was Daily Warmup #2, an adaptation of one that I got from Travis Harrison through Tonebase: After I got through that I worked on Galamian 3-octave scales (Ab Major), then headed to Billè Etude No. 1 for…
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Scales, scales, scales
Today’s Warmup (17 minutes): I saw a great “KT’s Minute Tips” from @katiethiroux on Instagram about speedwork. Her approach was to take your regular scales (2-octave) and start by finding your maximum fast tempo. The idea was to set your metronome to your fastest bpm divided by 4, so if you were working at 320bpm,…
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Change, change, change
Welcome to the new format of Monday Musings! One of the perks of my job is the generous compensatory-time-off package. One of the drawbacks to this that it requires a lot of weekend work that translates to taking Mondays off in lieu. This past weekend we performed in Memorial Park in Esquimalt to support The…
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102 Hours
This story is going to take a little bit of explaining, but here we go. My paternal grandmother, Byrdeen Anne Wise, passed away last year. She, very generously, left me and her other grandchildren a small inheritance, which I then took to using to acquire a new-to-me double bass. Initially I’d started talking with Trav…
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IslandHF Digimode Presentation
Glenn (VE7GRQ) asked if anyone was interested in doing a presentation on digimodes (FT8/FT4 etc), and I jumped at the chance. For those of you that were on the call, here is a copy of my slides from the presentation. https://www.braydenwise.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Digimodes-2023-03-26.pdf