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https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-11.html | what does the view of Perfect Heights looks like? | it can be seen in the video i made called "Perfect!". many angles are shown there, mostly just because i tend to go overboard with the camera angles |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-11.html | Do you ever feel like your soul is on too tight? | i can't think of any way of interpreting that that's not a paradox, so maybe yes |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-11.html | What would you do if your soul was on too tight? | try something new |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-11.html | Are you passionate about monkeys | not currently |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-11.html | Do you like plushies? | i've never tried them |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-11.html | So did you create all of those videos from the past 2 years in 2020 or 2021? | they were all made in the time span immediately leading up to their release. the only exception to this is "i'm a princess", for which the audio for the whole song and the graphics for the 1st of the two universes shown, were made in april-may 2019 |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-11.html | How do I make a good biscuit? | just make your favorite type of food, and then travel around to different countries until you find one that calls that a biscuit |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-11.html | how do i not fail my semestre? | i'm not sure. you might have to play by the rules somehow, and i don't know what those are, in your situation |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-11.html | Do you always play drums with the traditional grip or do you ever switch to matched grip? | matched will only be when transitioning to and from the snare-click position, and in that case the stick would actually be backwards anyway. you'll never see me playing matched grip with the tip forward |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-11.html | Are you doing like 15+ projects simultaneously? Is it like an album? | it certainly resembles an album, now that i think about it. i don't like albums, and to that extent it's actually not very much like an album |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-11.html | How do you come up with so many clever answers on a daily basis that's impressive | being clever is easy. just say the '42' thing from that book |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-11.html | do you think feeling lost in life is related to decision fatigue? | often yes |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-11.html | (where to go to school/work, who to hang out with, etc) is it fundamentally similar to being lost in a physical space like a really big park or new city? | could be |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-11.html | like whenever i get turned around irl i know i can backtrack or use landmarks to find my destination. | well in that case you weren't lost. being lost is when you actually have no idea where you are, in relation to where you've been, or in relation to where you're going |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-11.html | but how can i do that for "life"? how do you even decide what the goal should be? | just start talking about it, and you'll start to sort it out. you said "what should the goal be" ... well, next maybe you'd think to yourself... "what is a goal actually?" "should i have a 'goal'"? "do i want to have a 'goal'"? depending on the answers to those, that will lead you to the next questions. basically you're just trying to get it down to one question at a time. if there's too many compounded questions at the exact same time, you actually can't perceive them, so it's just a foggy feeling. so you have to start sorting the mess of compound questions into something you can answer first. and the first several questions will usually just be about trying to figure out which questions you want to be asking |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-11.html | i get overwhelmed and frustrated thinking about all the things i could be doing. there's no clear objective like finding my car somewhere in the parking lot if that makes sense. idk i know i should be doing something different but how do i decide what exactly that thing is? | there's no limit to the amount of ways you can decide. but a lot of those ways may also involve waiting for just a moment |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-11.html | What's the meaning of life? | trying to figure out which drop of water is in the ocean |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-11.html | how do you come up with the chords for your songs? | i'm not sure. it's really just like how you came up with the words in your sentence |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-11.html | do you improvise while recording the drums or is it all pre-planned? | like drawing a picture, then building the picture out of toothpicks -- you drew the picture, but you probably didn't specifically draw any of the toothpicks |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-11.html | also do you overdub in cymbal hits or whatever afterward, or is it all made in the moment? | which moment |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-11.html | I'm trying to write a funk song, but everything I improvise sounds like r&b | that reminds me of when people try to have a specific type of baby |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-11.html | Is a marketplace a battlefield? | maybe a little |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-11.html | I have a lot of work to do and not much time to do it what do I do???? | this might be the right time to invent something |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-11.html | I've lost my mind. Where do you think is the best place to look for it? | in the world |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-11.html | have you been using duolingo? | absolutely not |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-11.html | Once you've 'finished' the songwriting for a particular song, do you ever make structural changes to it throughout the recording and production process? | almost never |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-11.html | Do you ever feel that a song just works better as solely keyboard + vocals once you've begun producing it? | no. it's usually before producing it that i would think that |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-11.html | While you're writing a song at the keyboard, are you imagining the arrangement and instrumentation of it as a completed track? | i'm imagining the overall result |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-11.html | favorite sound effect? | a favorite sound effect is usually something that was previously unfavored, just moments before |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-11.html | do you ever just shut down from too many things? | sure, that sounds like a normal night's sleep |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-11.html | how do you come out of it? | wake up again |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-11.html | Do you ever get afraid of knowing certain things? | that seems possible |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-11.html | What are those things? | i don't know |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-11.html | ...how 2 not get burnt out w/ (making) music honestly(?) | how about making a video |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-11.html | whats the prize for reading all the questions | i will answer another one which you will also have to read |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-11.html | do we have to do anything? | eventually yes |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-11.html | How do you prioritise? I genuinely have no idea. | start by explaining your situation to someone, or just writing it down |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-11.html | What are you scared of in im scared? | everything around |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-11.html | I want to be better at conversations so I can impress people and feel like they are actually interested in what I have to say. Do you think if I was kinda cryptic during my conversations it would make me seem significantly cooler and more mysterious? You know get them to ask ME questions! Lol or do you think it'll totally backfire and make no one want to talk to me ever again??? Really shooting for intellectual vibes not lone wolf vibes thnx. | you can't predict how things will go in any future conversation. you're doing all this thinking about it, now, while not in a real conversation, and that actually sends you in the wrong direction. conversations are impossible to understand until you are actually there. the key is spending more and more and more time talking to people. you'll learn everything you need to know, and also develop your own style |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-11.html | Would it be possible to make a map that's bigger than the thing it's representing? | sure. it happens all the time for really small things. molecules, micro-chips, |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-11.html | hey bill, how do i stop being tired after spending centuries living? | maybe you could discover a 'game-changer'. that usually perks people right up |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-11.html | Why do you add the bass last in your recordings? | everything works better for me that way, and usually not very good other way. i'm not totally sure why |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-11.html | would it get in your way if you added it straight away? | yes but it also wouldn't know how itself to behave either. it's hard to explain because the bass actually carries the whole recoring, but it can't carry it properly until everything else is there. at least that's the way it usually goes for me |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-11.html | what do you think of the word "oscillate" | it's like 'alternate' except instead of between 2 objects it's a continuous spectrum |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-11.html | hey bill if i add like 2 videos in my video and it makes 2 tracks do you think it's better to keep making new tracks or not | you'll probably be fine if it's only 2 |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-11.html | Why do objects have a center of mass? | i think that's just because we live in a contiguous spacial dimensional realm. you can find the center of anything, even if certain points are more heavily weighted than others |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-11.html | Why isn't mass distributed evenly in objects? | it probably is, for some objects. that has nothing to do with the question of the center. if the mass is evenly distributed, that just means that the center will also be at the exact central location of the object |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-11.html | elp me im on a test rn and i need the answer to 1 + 1 pls hurry the teacher is comig to collect it | 1+1 is not a question, it's an answer. for example, it's an answer to the question of how to achieve more than 1, when only 1's are available |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-11.html | favourite food? | first i need to list all the foods so i can really make an informed decision |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-11.html | What do you think of the last name "Mankiewicz"? | i've never thought about it |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-11.html | I think it sounds silly yet dignified | |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-11.html | what is the next video about? | i'm not sure exactly which one is the next one |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-11.html | what would need to happen, logistically, for you to play your music live? | i'm not sure |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-11.html | how many tables for every 2 tables | 2. this is taking into account the fact that some additional tables were made, but the same amount of tables were also destroyed |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-11.html | What is your favorite cheese? | venezuelen beaver cheese |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-11.html | do you like my cat | i have no idea |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-11.html | How do I get over writers block? | maybe you'll have to re-define what writing actually is |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-11.html | have you ever consider making an album of some kind | yes |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-11.html | How many takes do you average when tracking final instrumental parts on your songs? | 3 |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-11.html | With the nature of your production and arrangements, I assume you're tracking parts section by section. | i am not |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-11.html | When you are tracking those 8 bars of bass or a 2 bar keys flourish or an ornamental synth stab, how many cracks do you take at it? | i have never taken a crack. i do not take cracks |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-11.html | Do you nail down the idea and practice it until it's clean enough, or take multiple improvised variation takes until it feels good? | in this case, practicing something makes it worse |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-11.html | Do you have an order you prefer to track instruments in? | small to large. small percussion first. bass is always last |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-11.html | Since you've been learning nederlands, have you been watching nijntje? | i have seen 1 episode of nijntje, in which i learned the word 'wortel'. but i've seen way more episodes of coen en sander where i learn words like 'neergekeild' and 'levensvraag' |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-11.html | Would you ever consider doing a live tour of your music with a full band? | sure |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-11.html | (Sorry if this is a question you get a lot) Your music makes me feel things and I love them. | |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-11.html | What is your favorite type of aglet? | i don't know of any aglets |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-11.html | i dont like grasshoppers, should i invite them for tea or something? | maybe, but you don't have to |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-11.html | any suggestions on how to make an unfinished songs database? | sure |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-11.html | i keep forgetting about songs that i really wanted to come back to | so just write them all down. the hardest part is naming and ordering. eventually you'll decide what method means the most to you. for me they are always sorted by date, so the names are not so important |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-11.html | Caveman here, I hold a microphone next to the speaker of an electric keyboard every time I want to record music. I get the feeling that there's a more efficient way to record but the all midi apps I've tried either were too confusing or they produced something that sounded completely different to what I was playing. Do you have any suggestions, or should I keep doing what I was doing? | what you're doing seems great. you actually skipped a concept in between midi and microphone, and that would be direct audio (recording the audio through a wire, but still recording the audio output and not the midi). in which case you'd get the exact sound of the keyboard, not just the 'midi notes'. but it turns out, if you do that, you might find it disappointing that you can't hear the air and sound of the room, and, most importantly, the tapping sounds of your hands on the keys. also besides all of that there's another advantage of the way you're doing it which is of course that you are doing it. the other ones are in fact not happening, so they are pretty useless anyway in that regard |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-11.html | What's a punctuation mark you've always thought about using but just haven't gotten around to yet? | as much time as i may have spent using punctuation symbols, i've actually spent even more time using them. so i've certainly used every individual punctuation symbol i've ever thought about using |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-11.html | what do you think of the word "seltsam"? | never heard of it |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-11.html | what is "leaving the studio" supposed to represent you doing in more than a dream? | a graphics test. or, more specifically, wandering out of the model (and admitting it), during a graphics test that's now actually been repurposed for a music video, with the admission kept in, for that honesty aesthetic |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-11.html | hi bill. any tips on finishing songs? i have, no joke, over 3 whole albums worth of ideas, wether it be lyrics, chord progressions, melodies, structures, etc. but i've never actually written a full song. it's very frustrating because most of the ideas, in my opinion, are very good, but i just can't seem to find the motivation to actually focus and finish a song (writing lyrics in particular is very difficult for me). any tips to combat this? and have you ever been in this situation? | in that case, i don't get what you mean by motivation. if you really didn't have it, then you never would have described the whole situation so clearly and made a focused point of inquiring about solutions for it. I can gladly give you a whole bunch of methods i use for the songwriting scenario you first described, but if you had no motivation then you of course wouldn't be motivated to hear it |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-11.html | Do you use a Yamaha keyboard or a Korg for your songs? If so, are you able to name the model | the main selling point for the particular keyboard i use is that it's similar to all other keyboards. so naming the model seems like a step in the wrong direction |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-11.html | Have you ever encountered something strange? | sure |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-11.html | If so describe it? | if it's describable then it isn't strange |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-11.html | i'm currently alternating between working a full-time job and being in university, both entirely unrelated to music. i have a fair amount of free time which i try to spend as much as possible on music. some days i feel like this situation is pretty good, but other days i feel like i am travelling down the completely wrong path, because i'm basically wasting enormous amounts of time on non-music. and when i look at all these professional musicians most of them went to music school instead of not-music school, and they got jobs related to music of course. | that doesn't strike me as the most common scenario. in fact i can't necessarily even think of anyone who's done it quite like that |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-11.html | and i'm scared that if i continue what i'm doing then i'm going to get "locked out" of the music world because i won't be good enough, or i won't know anybody, or something. what do i do?? | i wish you knew about all the people who are currently in some of today's highest ranks of success, whose backgrounds and lifestories are fully loaded with exactly these kinds of lost 'what the heck' sort of scenarios you just described. you are literally on the quintessential path to success -- specifically i'm talking about the part of your story where you're scared and don't know what the heck you're supposed to do. in fact i think that scene might actually be in every success movie |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-11.html | If you made a new song to be your favourite, what would be your 2nd favourite? | i'd prefer the one i'd plan to make next, to be my 2nd favorite, during the time i was working on the first one |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-11.html | How is Waldo? | great |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-11.html | If the CEO of Blackrock could do a kickflip, would it make his business more ethical? | it wouldn't move the needle |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-11.html | how to not be awkward when targeted by overwhelming friendliness | you'll get a little better each time |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-11.html | could you please explain the concept of keys? is it natural to stay in one key the way it's natural to stay in 4/4? what even is a key? i think i understood your bass explanation, but i'm not sure i get it completely. thanks | i think if you go out and study 10 songs, you're going to make way way way more progress on this than anything i could put into words here |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-11.html | Do you have something against the interrobang‽ | i just have a sneaking suspicion that the entire point of the interrobang is to give you the opportunity to say the word 'interrobang', and then dazzle your friends by explaining what the interrobang is. there's nothing wrong with that, it's just that my friends are already dazzled because i already explained it to them earlier |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-11.html | I've always thought that "At the Airport Terminal" was one of your most emotional songs, but I've never been able to make heads or tails of the "porridge" line. Does it represent something? Or is there for the equally noble purpose of just sounding cool? | i'll tell you exactly what happened. actually, i will show you all the other times i described it, and i think after reading them all, you'll understand the situation very clearly |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-11.html | Have you ever gotten into an argument with someone via the questions page | no |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-11.html | Are you aware that it snows in hell? | i've never thought about it, but that seems logical |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-11.html | do you like tapeworms? | no |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-11.html | can't the future just wait? | sure. it always does |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-11.html | Are you secretly an alien pretending to be human? | no |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-11.html | Around what date did you realize that vocal harmony should take priority over chordal instruments in describing the harmonic motion of a song and what circumstances led up to this realization? | all i can tell you is the date that you described a realization that you've projected onto me |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-11.html | why cant i feel connected to anything or anyone | maybe you are on another planet |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-11.html | Where do ducks get their quack? | i thought i knew, until i started thinking about it |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-11.html | have you ever decided to abandon an idea and never revisit it? | no |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-11.html | if so, why? | |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-11.html | Will there be an interrobang in your next video‽ | absolutely not |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-11.html | favorite thing you don't know the name of? | cupcakes |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-11.html | Is there any way to re appreciate smells like teen spirit, girl from Ipanema, and songs like that that are so powerful they are past the point of being heard for what they are. Does that makes sense. Also what are some other songs that are like this? Have a beautiful day | a long gap of several years without hearing it, then hearing it again. can verify this was extremely effective for me with that particular nirvana recording. or if you are eager to get the results now, try speed+pitching it up or down by 10% or so. that may do the trick |
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