Hey y'all! Im young, im 15 but i love to create music. I've made a few things recently and im just curious if anyone had any critiques or major things that could be fixed in the future to make my writing sound more 'adult' or 'professional' because I want to be good!
Juggernaut
Sol Calmo
Entrance of the gladiators
I'll give a small background on each of these, 'Juggernaut' is the newest of the trio and I wrote it after being inspired by the fun brass lines in 'Spartacus' by Jon Van der Roost.
'Sol calmo' is a fun one, I wrote is after playing the chord progression on piano and thinking "this would sound cool with castanets."
And 'Entrance of the gladiators' it's fairly self explanatory, I love brass quintets (as a trumpet player I basically have to) but regardless I always disliked how this piece was brushed off as nothing more than 'the circus march' because I really enjoy it even if its theme is a little goofy!

23rd: Jane Bright (Nicaragua - 6th)

A deserving, incredible Survivor endgame level character standing next to Jane Bright.
u/SMC0629:
I don't have Jane in my personal endgame, but I'm not mad at all that she made it here. She's probably the most divisive character in Nicaragua, but I personally love her. She's got a spunky attitude, has a great rivalry with Marty, great relationship with Chase, and has one of my favorite eliminations ever. Her boot is so god damn memorable, that lasting moment of the alliance telling her it's gonna be her tonight, with Jane in complete shock and despair is just perfect. One of the best characters of Nicaragua for sure.
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u/DryBonesKing:
Jane is on a very small list of players who I think has run the entire spectrum in terms of where they land in my rankings. Top ten, top hundred, middle of the pack, bottom hundred, bottom ten… I think I understand pretty much every Jane take known to humanity, cause I’ve had them. Nowadays, I tend to lean more positive on her, but I definitely still have too many issues I’m hyper aware of to let her rank too highly for me.
“What if we have Rupert’s hero edit to someone who was just really really mean, and did the bare minimum to hide it” is genuinely hilarious to me. Jane’s got good energy and her many, many, many feuds (the majority of which being with Marty) make her a great character to guide the narrative. There’s also just her boot episode, which is like… way too good of an episode for Nicaragua. I think I’m neutral-lean positive on Nicaragua, but it’s not a season that does a ton for me, but dear god, Jane’s boot and the scene of her dousing the camp fire is like so fucking metal.
She’s such a raw, powerful person. I think my biggest issue with her right now is just that, in a similar vein to Brandon Hantz, sometimes she feels a little too real at times. Like is she funny when she’s talking shit about Marty? Yes! Is the story great? Yes! But does some of what she says about Marty and his kids feel a bit too much? Yes, very much so. It’s not enough to detract from her character, but again… Brandon Hantz-tier of character. For me, that’s a pretty big compliment, but I also do not keep him in my Top 100. Same with Jane. But despite being one of the names that made Endgame that I disagree with the most, I am very curious and excited to see our resident “Least Sane Jane Bright Enjoyer” spin a tale or two about why she deserves to be up here!
Overall Rank – 138/821
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u/Zanthosus:
While I disagree with her being endgame, I understand the reasoning and defense behind it. I respect the hustle that Tom did to get her here and I’m happy for him that Jane made her first endgame.
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u/Regnisyak1:
I love that Jane is here, I am not even going to lie. Before my recent rewatch, I had Jane in the 200s, and after my rewatch, I was completely blown away at how complex her character is and the great relationships she had all season. To me, she felt real with her hatred, and the switch between the dry laugh we know her for, to the nasty person she became was endlessly incredible, she was such a great part of Nicaragua and one of the few praises I have for that season. Plus, when she finds out Chase, Holly, and Sash are voting for her, the music change and piano chord that happens there might be the piece media I have ever seen. Congrats Tom for getting her here!
Personal Rank: 73/821. 9/10.
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u/ninjedi1:
Nicaragua is such a great season due to how emotionally charged it is, and Jane is a big part of that. Jane is the sweet southern lady until she feels crossed, then she has a whole vendetta against anyone who crosses her, so it's a lot of great fun. She is not in my personal endgame, but I can always appreciate a kooky character showing up in it.
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u/Tommyroxs45:
Jane Bright:
This is undoubtedly my most anticipated write up of the rankdown, I have such a love for Jane and everything she does for Nicaragua. She has one of the best stories of all time, and just has so many moments that further it and make it cohesive. And that is what I will explain today. Jane is not just some badass southern old lady, ok well she is, but she’s also a very deep, broken old lady trying to put on a facade for herself. Her hatred towards everyone around her has its story and here it is…
The Mask
A lot like Rupert, Jane tries to paint a mask on herself as a hero and somebody who always follows her heart for the greater good. However, throughout the season we see cracks start to arise in this persona she puts on herself. She’s someone who needs a purpose and when somebody gets in the way of that, she gets insecure and bitter and that’s when we see the wrath of Jane break out.
The editors never try to pull the wool over your eyes by painting her as a hero, because they show petty rivalries with her and Marty and her boot episode meltdown. We get to see her from all angles, even if she only wants to present one. She’s insecure about herself, making her feel entitled to be treated as a queen and carried to the end due to her “heroic” manner. Once she realizes it doesn’t work like that and she actually has to play the game, all gloves come off and we get some of the most petty, uncalled for, or even bitchy moments that just have so much raw emotion.
She’s not painted as a hero while being an asshole (*cough* Ozzy *cough*) They show her as her flawed self, but they also let you make your own decision on what to feel without pushing a narrative onto you. Of course she wins Favorite Player at the reunion, so some people still thought she was a hero but you get to see this very broken and entitled person struggling. She really hates everyone but that’s not what she can show because that’s now who she wants to be and it’s such a complicated story arc throughout the season that we see the cracks grow and it’s told so subtlety but perfectly. And this is only the tip of the iceberg with how deep this old southern lady is.
Without this defining feature, she’d just be a badass southern lady but with it she becomes so much more just adding to this brilliant story building up all season until her boot episode. Her masking her real personality just makes her a much more complex character and when we see these glimpses of it, you start to realize, ohhh this is the person I’m supporting.
Even on top of the mask, there is so much more to Jane’s character…
Grief
When you watch Nicaragua for the first time, this part of her character is not inherently obvious. Grief?!? What are you talking about? She just seems like a badass until she’s a bitter old hag for being the target. While, yes that’s a very simplified version of this, there’s so much more to dissect there. The grieving of her husband, greatly plays a role in her story, and although it’s sometimes subtle you can see how it play into it so beautifully well.
In her very first confessional, what do we see Jane say?
“They think I'm some middle aged housewife that tootles around the house all day long, they’re in for a big surprise. Because that is definitely not me. I'm fifty-six years old and I'm the type person that stays busy all the time doing things. I just don't think there's anything I can't do. Winning the million dollars is real important to me ‘cause it’ll help me pay off my farm and the fact that I lost my husband, uh, in '09, it-it-it means I wouldn't have to work as hard as I do. But his spirit, I know is still with me and that's what keeps me going.”
Her husband obviously is impacting her mentally during this season, and we see this throughout the game. Every Time somebody makes a gesture that they want her out, her personal viper just breaks out. This is because she knows this is getting in the way of her dream, and the spirit of her husband that made her want to do this and she’s not letting anybody take that from her.
She’s still grieving and wants to win for her husband, and it is a very sweet story but sadly it takes a dark turn as she starts using this as entitlement for her to win. She believes she’s obligated to be brought to the end because of who she is and the loss of her husband and yeah, it’s dark but damn is it good when you think about it.
This is also why the family visit is SO important to her story in her boot episode. Right when her daughter, Ashley gets there, she starts talking about her husband and how Ashley is the one she is doing this for, to help her. This is WHO SHE IS FIGHTING FOR!
That is why it hits so hard when everyone flips on her! How dare they! She thinks. These people are voting me out right after I fought my hardest to give my daughter a better life?!? She’s one of the only I have left, this is disgusting. It’s so sad but at the same time it’s brilliantly shown not told. And what do you know, when Jane is talking about Sash’s mama raising him, she immediately brings up her daughter, just ugh how perfect does it round back to her family and her grief with loss.
Now obviously, does that make her outrage justified, I don’t know, maybe? Is she still kind of a bitch? probably! Is she a badass? Probably! That leads me to my next point.
Perspective
If you have read a lot of my other writeups on Nicaragua you would have noticed I love to talk about the perspective a lot of these characters receive on the season. Complimenting how diverse they can be seen depending on your morals or values. No character represents this better than Jane Bright.
How do I know this? Well let’s look at her placements in Rankdowns Past:
SRI - 485/501 - Seen as a bitchy, entitled, worse version of NaOnka, and someone who went way too personal in the game.
SRII - 455/537 - Seen as annoying and sour, forced fan favorite edit not giving her the trashing she deserved by the other tribemates.
SRIII - 549/575 - Seen as a narcissist and self-righteous, below the belt remarks and “a human embodiment of a rash” (that made me laugh a bit).
SRIV - 518/615 - Seen as an ultimately fascinating character, who got a dishonest edit that didn’t show her true side until the end. Ultimately ending up as an unlikable “venomous bitch” who somehow won fan favorite.
SRV - 108/653 - Seen as a great T.V personality whose kooky first half and vigorous 2nd half make for a good story and uplifts everyone around her while also being a great character.
SRVI - 127/731 (Had to be idoled to get here though smh) - Seen as a badass challenge competitor who is actually sour, who unfairly attacked Marty and is a bit too much when it comes to her toxic side to make her slightly less good.
SRVII - 185/767 - Seen as an extremely authentic personality and very entertaining to the chaos of Nicaragua, as well as having an iconic rivalry with Marty, being an iconic mother.
See the difference between one half and the other? Yeah, that shows just how well of a character she is edited as. She has so many times where she is shown to be a hero but juxtaposed with so many times she is shown as an asshole and it works off each scene perfectly. This is why we get such a difference of opinion and I think it’s told so well to where most people don’t even see it.
You have to weigh her good and bad and see based on your morals, if she’s a good person or not, and how acceptable or right was she for her constant hatred of others? I really love that as they aren’t trying to make you think a specific feeling about her. You need to come up with that conclusion yourself on how you think she is, that’s why she won the fan favorite vote in 2011 but today many call her an entitled bitch. (And yeah, she is but that’s a lot of what makes her so amazing).
Her kicking ass in challenges and being a lively spirit contrasted to her nasty demeanor to Jill and especially Marty personally attacking them and her boot episode meltdown, contribute to making one of the most wishy-washy characters when it comes to people’s opinions on her. I don’t what to be told how to feel, I want to come up with it on my own, and I feel like a lot of that has been lost in recent years of Survivor and seeing Jane and having all these different perspectives on her personality just adds so much life.
There is a reason why so many people despise her and so many people love her, she’s just edited that well to where people have had to come up with their own feelings about Jane. Not being coerced to feel a certain way, and I feel that is the best way to edit a character. What you see is what you see, not an objective stance the show is trying to put onto you, and I feel all of Nicaragua shows this but Jane is the prime example. Perspective means everything with her.
This makes her one of the most complex characters of all time, she’s either a broken woman seeking admiration, an entitled bitch, or a badass southern lady who is an inspiration. It’s all based on what you value and isn’t that what Survivor is all about, a social experiment where you weigh your values and personalities with each other to build a society.
Speaking of building a society, how is Jane’s relationships with the cast, well let’s see her main stars:
Sash: Jane and Sash’s dynamic isn’t really shown and I think that actually helps her and Sash’s story. Sash is sleazy and doesn’t really make any genuine connections and we see that in her breakdown scene. When you watch the moment she learns she’s going home and the confessional she gives, you see a direct tone shift from how she talks about Chase and how she talks about Sash. When she’s almost crying about Chase and his betrayal, she is outright vile and nasty when talking about Sash. Showing this major lack of connection between them, that she never saw him as a friend and will not hold back from releasing her rage on him.
Chase: Jane and Chase’s connection is one for the books. Both being from North Carolina and being southern types, they instantly bond and feel close to each other. Their relationship just feels more special than anyone else’s that season, that’s what makes the betrayal so much more entertaining. You literally see her about to cry over Chase, they really were close and got to know each other and just to have him stab her in the back, it’s so good. It just felt special but it wasn’t enough for him to not cut her…
Now how could you talk about relationships and not bring up Jane’s defining one…
Fartay:
Come on! This rivalry is one of if not the best rivalry in all of Survivor. They just despise each other and really are either of them in the right? Not at all, that’s what makes it so great. Marty’s a sleazeball, cocky, and a smart ass while Jane’s an entitled, bitter, old lady and they just work so well off each other. You just have personal jab after personal jab that is just so entertaining and perfectly helps tell Jane’s story.
There is really no reason why they should hate each other as much as they do but their walks of life and personalities just clash so hard that you still understand why they hate each other. Jane takes everything Marty does to heart without any grain of salt, and it makes her reactions so visceral and truly legendary. It’s what makes Jane the Jane we love to love or love to hate!
Now, I think it’s time to talk about the pinnacle of Jane. Her magnum opus if you will… her boot episode.
The Wrath of Jane Will Break Out Tonight
This is one of my favorite episodes of Reality TV. Everything about it is perfect and told in such a way to where it’s the perfect ending for such a broken character.
Building her up with her daughter coming during the family visit, talking about her and how much she wants to provide for her. Having a seed planted in Jane’s brain after she’s not taken to the reward thinking she was entitled to be brought.
Fabio winning immunity, throwing everything for a loop, just when Jane’s attitude has really started to shift and then we get to the scene. Which personally is my favorite scene in all of Survivor without a doubt. The scene where the alliance tells her it has changed and she’s going home is so brilliant. The raw awkwardness and silence next to Jane’s utter disbelief and anger. After she flips them off it is followed by again my favorite confessional of all time.
This is what she has been building up to, everything just falls about when she believed she deserved to win. Having such raw and unfiltered emotions where she’s about to break down and cry and then the turn to anger and fury bringing Sash’s mother into it, talking about how she raised a damn liar. (WITH THAT HEAD COCK THOUGH) All with very subtle sound effects or just no music at all until she gets up and makes one last hoorah by pouring water on the fire. “I started and I put it out” 🔥🔥🔥
Then we get to tribal, where Jane is just done with the bullshit and just calls everyone out for being liars and backstabbers. “The writings on the wall Fabio!” Like come on, that is TV gold, followed by the vote having Chase and Sash “cowardly” play their idols sticking it to Jane when she is already at her lowest by not even having her vote count. She leaves bitter and broken, not the happy ending she felt she deserved.
Mortgage Gate
I’m putting this here because that’s where it best fits, and this is brief because it doesn’t really affect my rankings on Jane because it’s not in the season.
I wish they did show this though, as having this added layer of controversy between Sash and Jane with real world implications would have been amazing, even if what Jane is saying isn’t true it still would’ve shown her as an ass, making up lies just to make someone look worse. I just think it’s such an interesting topic to discuss that I wanted to give it its own section. Sash is sleazy so I wouldn’t pass him to do that, however Jane is extremely bitter and entitled so I could also see her making that up, I guess we'll never really know will we… (I know Marty called the incident fake, but it’s Marty, of course he’s gonna dispute whatever Jane says, if she says the sky is blue, he’ll say it’s orange).
I'm Not Breaking My Tile!
This kind of relates to the mask section of this write up. However, I wanted to talk specifically about Jane’s challenge prowess and wins throughout the season and how much it adds to this arc. Building her up as this badass figure competing against big guys half her age and actually winning?!? It gives an excellent face to the real Jane, having this much courage to go against Chase and Fabio even after winning, not only being such a badass in that moment but showing how she’s trying to play up this persona of old challenge great.
Jane, The Tribe Has Spoken
So in conclusion, you can see that when you really glance over Nicaragua you don’t see Jane as some sort of deep character. However, when you really look into her and her actions and motives you see a broken old lady who is obviously grieving. She is such a deep and complex character that Nicaragua needed to really round out the story.
Jane isn’t supposed to be this likable hero, nor is she supposed to be a villain, she’s not edited as one archetype. However you value your morals, is how you will see Jane and even if you find her an ass, you have to admit they tell it very well. She’s also objectively entertaining, her rivalry with Marty, her being badass during challenges, cooking fish in the woods, her boot episode meltdown, and so much more are just so iconic to me and make this season what it is.
This write up obviously won’t sway everybody, but I hope that if you rewatch Nicaragua, take a closer look at Jane and her actions and see how it lines up with somebody like Rupert or Coach who are much more prevalent when it comes to these “entitled, broken, facade” archetypes. You will see a brilliant story of grief, hatred, entitlement, and a fake persona that the show knows she is trying to present.
Personally, Jane will always be one of my favorite characters of all time with amazing scenes and a story almost as complex as Ian’s. She didn’t win this rankdown, but she won my heart and has definitely earned herself a #1 spot on my rankings for this endgame.
SMC0629: 19
DryBonesKing: 21
Zanthosus: 24
Tommyroxs45: 1
Regnisyak1: 20
DavidW1208: 24
ninjedi1: 24
Average Placement: 19.000
Total Points: 133
Standard Deviation: 8.206 (2nd Highest)

You people are so contrarian in an attempt to seem sophisticated and it makes you look like fucking idiots sometimes. Saying that Billie Eilish is as boring and overrated as Taylor Swift is subjective, but it also tells me that you haven’t listened to either artist at all. You literally see a famous name on your phone get acclaimed for something, and then you go on RSPod and post “This person actually sucks” without listening to the music.
So I’ll do it for you. Two songs with the same title from the new Billie album and the new Taylor album. loml and L’Amour De Ma Vie
loml first impressions: Taylor’s lyrics are very sappy and generic, it’s like if white bread was music. I’ve never really heard any Swift songs but this is exactly what I expected it would be. The production is beyond bland, it’s like a child made it, and not a very talented one. The same piano chord over and over and over and over and then strings come in. It’s nothing. It’s so bare minimum.
L’Amour De Ma Vie: Billie’s vocals are already so much more interesting in the first ten seconds. More passion, more range. We’ve got some interesting guitar chords, a little piano. Cool baseline comes in. The lyrics aren’t much better than Taylor’s lyrics, they’re probably about the same level, very average. Oh, drums come in, it’s fun now. I feel something. This is great. The lyrics are more biting. It’s meaner than Taylor, also more exposed. This is just a lot of fun.
What is happening. Oh lmao, we’ve got a beat change, synth chords, autotune filtered vocals. This is so different but it’s awesome.
Yeah so go eat shit

Hey y'all! Im young, im 15 but i love to create music. I've made a few things recently and im just curious if anyone had any critiques or major things that could be fixed in the future to make my writing sound more 'adult' or 'professional' because I want to be good!
Juggernaut
Sol Calmo
Entrance of the gladiators
I'll give a small background on each of these, 'Juggernaut' is the newest of the trio and I wrote it after being inspired by the fun brass lines in 'Spartacus' by Jon Van der Roost.
'Sol calmo' is a fun one, I wrote is after playing the chord progression on piano and thinking "this would sound cool with castanets."
And 'Entrance of the gladiators' it's fairly self explanatory, I love brass quintets (as a trumpet player I basically have to) but regardless I always disliked how this piece was brushed off as nothing more than 'the circus march' because I really enjoy it even if its theme is a little goofy!

Hi!
First of all, I have no synesthesia, however when I fine tune my keyboard from standard A=440 to half tone up or down resulting in a basiaclly unfamiliar tonality on the whole keyboard, I have a weird, bitter taste in my mouth or a sort of an electrical taste. I have been playing the piano for most of my life (26/male) but always with well-tempered and standard tuned instruments, so its a very different sound palette. I have never experienced such taste trigger in any other musical or non-musical situation and there is no one in the family with synesthesia or any tpye of neurodivergence. (I have no perfect pitch though very much trained to piano chords.) Can anyone suggest what this process might be or some relating keywords? Thanks

I've been playing the piano for about a year with no previous musical experience. I'm self taught and usually just memorize the pieces. I recently noticed that I've started to recognize notes and it really helps when memorizing pieces. I sometimes close my eyes and just press a key and guess right 7/10 times. Chords are alot harder though and I still have a hard time getting any of those right. I'm wondering if this is normal. And any advice on improving this is appreciated.

I’m a beginner and sometimes learn new songs using youtube piano tutorials. Sometimes, the tutorial shows notes that line up with the vocals, which is not how the song is actually played on the piano. For example, the song “Control” by Zoe Wees (https://youtu.be/d0zyQPwTiUA?si=wDEHQQiRQKGqw3nz). In the tutorial, the notes line up with the vocals. I want to know the word for this type of tutorial so I can avoid it. I want to know the underlying notes/chords that the lyrics are sung over, I don’t want the notes to mirror the words because that is not how the song is actually played on piano. I hope this question makes sense. Any help is greatly appreciated.

This is supposed to be for a piano song, I can send if needed.
Anyways, I have no clue what they mean in the introsuction by: "E - 0 - 1 - /3- slide effect"
Did they add bass notes to this piano chord sheet because the bass can't be played through piano? I recently studied and have a grasp on sheet music but these learning apps are still so confusing!

So, I've been around guitars for years, was a tech on the road with various bands, etc. Recently (-3 months) started actually trying to play. My partner plays bass, and is one of those people who can pretty much play anything (bass, lead, flute, a few classical instruments). I already play piano, violin, and sing.
I have been learning quite casually, but my focus, when I have time for a focus has been:

Learning the fretboard
Stuff like CAGED, chord patterns
Quite a lot of playing actual stuff I like to stay interested
A good dollop of music theory, which I find really interesting, perhaps unusually.

Question is, my partner, although not saying so, seems to think I'm somehow doing this wrong - although this is just the vibe I'm getting - things like slightly aloof sounding "ok"s and so on in response to what I'm doing.
It sounds pretty sensible to me - learn where the notes are, some patterns, play a few tunes, apply some theory.
Anyone think it sounds like there's more/other things to focus on instead?

I’m 17, I kinda suck at music lol. But my mom is an artist so If I wanted to, I’m sure I could draw very well as I can see whatever I want in hyper realism in my mind and manipulate it how I want before putting it on paper. This is probably a pretty common ability, but I was curious if this is something that you do with music too.
I can hear already made songs play in my mind just fine, but it’s a lot harder to just create music entirely in my head than it is for me to create images. It’s like I’m making individual tracks without any real anchor and forget about hearing two notes at the same time lol.
But if I’m playing chords on piano or guitar, melodies tend to just come to me in my head without needing to manipulate notes one at a time, and sometimes I hear full chords I want to play but can’t bc I don’t know the instrument well enough and by the time I get past playing the first note of the chord, I can’t hear it in my head anymore.
Sorry about the rant, it’s just something I’ve been thinking about for years.

Hey there
So, I study composition. For my previous class, my teacher asked me to write something more chromatic (I mostly write diatonic music because I'm not a fan of dissonance unless I need it for a specific purpose). I studied whatever I could regarding chromatic harmony and started working on it.
I realized immediately that trying out ideas on the piano in real time was not comfortable, due to new chord shapes and chromatic runs I'm not used to playing. So I wrote the solo piano piece in my DAW and sent it to him for evaluation.
He then proceeded to treat me as if I had committed a major war crime. He said under no circumstances is a composer allowed to compose something that the he didn't play himself and that MIDI is "cheating". Is that really the case? I study music to hopefully be a film composer. In the real world, composers always write various parts for various instruments that they themselves cannot play and later on just hire live musicians to play it for the final score. Mind you, the whole piece I wrote isn't "hard" and is absolutely playable for me, I just didn't bother learning it since composition is my priority, not instrumental fluency.
How should I interpret this situation? Am I in the wrong here for using MIDI for drafting ideas?
Thank you!

Had it as a young child in the early 2000s, no later than 2006, we probably got it from Walmart. It was orange with black text.
All I remember is how it starts. You hear the sound of a car stopping and a man getting out. You hear him walk up to to the front do_or and he knocks on it, I believe you hear it open. I don’t recall when it starts but you hear a chord progression much like from the song Fantasy by Aldo Nova, at 1:19 here. The high note is exactly what you hear on the CD. It also does the same downward notes progression just a shorter duration.
I say it starts with this but it could be a different track number. I remember hitting play and this starting. I don’t recall hearing any Halloween songs, like Monster Mash type. I think it was just spooky music and sounds.
I’ve listened to a few CDs that look similar but are definitely not it after hearing them. One is Rubies Spooky Sounds the other is 60 min Horror Sound Effects. The dark orange color is very familiar.

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[Eats an immense amount of food in a single panel. Doubles as a durability feat for his stomach, as Jon states that that much food should cause him to burst if he tries to eat it all]
[Eats all the food in a refrigerator in a very short time]
[Eats a million meals in the same day by noon. This is even more impressive, as Garfield is famously averse to waking up early and fond of sleeping in, meaning it’s likely he didn’t have much time after waking up to eat a million meals before 12:00. For a little more context, Jon states that Garfield sleeps an average of 18 hours a day.
[While on a short walk, eats so many canaries he causes a city-wide shortage]
[With Odie, completely wrecks Jon’s living room in a single second]
[Leaves with all the furniture in a room after Jon leaves it briefly before he can return]
[Outruns a charging bull]
[Dodges out of the way of speeding cars]
[Leaps out of the path of a speeding truck]
[Keeps pace with a speeding car]
[Again]
[Keeps pace with an ice cream truck]
[Claims to be “faster than a speeding delivery truck”]
[Outruns rolling donuts, reaching the floor before they can fall off a table. ]
[Outruns the world’s largest ball of twine as it rolls down a hill after him]
[Outruns a rolling snowball]
[Runs up the wall and across the ceiling to the other side of the room in only a few panels]
[Dodges a thrown shoe]
[Dodges a thrown pair of binoculars]
[Dodges a thrown pie with enough force behind it to knock the moon out of the sky]
[Catches a thrown potted plant]
[Eats his birthday cake out from under its candles, leaving them briefly suspended in the air]
[Catches on to Odie’s tongue as he runs by]
[Leaps to catch a piece of toast mid-air the second it pops up]
[Again]
[Eats several apples out of the air as Jon is juggling them]
[Eats a butterfly out of the air mid-flight]
[Snatches a fly out of the air]
[Leaps to snatch a donut out of Jon’s hands before he can take a bite]
[Rapidly decorates a tree in what Jon estimates to be a world record]
[Catches up to a car and rips its fender off]
[Catches up to a car and rips an entire axle off]
[Demonstrates shocking agility chasing after a thrown mouse]
[Does a flip]
[Flips in midair to land on his feet at the last second]
[Leaps from the floor to the ceiling off-panel]
[Leaps from a table to the ceiling]
[Walks on his front paws]
[Balances a potted plant on his head while rolling atop a ball]
[Swims rapidly into the sunset]
[Spins his leg around so fast he takes flight like a helicopter]
[While trying to escape a sweater, spins fast enough he becomes a small tornado]
[Moves as a blur for a quick costume change]
[After eating caffeinated sweets, he becomes a blur, bouncing off the walls and ceiling.]
[Moves so fast, he seems to vanish panel-to-panel. Gets to his food dish and cleans it out before Jon can finish saying his name]
[Moves so fast, his slipstream shreds Jon’s clothes]
[Zooms in from a long distance away before Odie can take a bite of his food]
[Catches a sandwich before it can hit the floor]
[Zooms out of bed, eats dinner, and returns before his blanket has time to fall to the ground]
[Spots a snowflake, and runs back inside, dragging Jon out to see it before it touches the ground.]
[Moves to his bed before a lightbulb can go out]
[Moves faster than the speed of sound]
[Regularly keeps up with the mice in his house, who are implied to be FTE (except for the fat ones).]
[Moves FTE]
[Moves FTE, eating all the food out of his food bowl in the time it takes Jon to blink]
[Eats a goldfish FTE in the space it takes the reader to blink]
[Somehow loops back around after leaving the panel while Jon is still watching him]
[Lets go of a tree branch to rub his arms, then grabs back on before he has time to fall]
[Changes channels on a tv so fast it explodes and the remote starts to smoke]

Misc:

[Eats an entire lasagna, pan and all]
[Eats 219 lbs of lasagna]
[Eats so many calories in one sitting, Jon’s calculator violently malfunctions from processing such a large number]
[While on a walk, eats so many canaries he causes a city-wide shortage]
[Eats an entire bowl of food, bowl included]
[Again]
[Eats the pants off of Jon]
[Eats a tv remote]
[Eats a bag of tools Jon bought from the hardware store, then spits one back up]
[Eats a brick]
[Casually eats a coffee cup]
[Eats a poison frog]
[Ate a poison toad]
[Fits an entire cake in his mouth]
[Again]
[And Again]
[He just keeps going at it]
[Fits 200 french fries in his mouth]
[Fits an entire glass fishbowl in his mouth]
[Implied to have eaten an entire cow]
[Eats a large fish-shaped sign]
[Eats a giant burger larger than himself]
[Eats a puffer fish, and has it expand to fifty times its size inside him]
[Burps for 43 seconds straight]
[Burps hard enough to send Jon and Odie flying, blow a door off its hinges, and peel away sections of sidewalk.]
[Breathes fire after eating a peruvian death pepper]
[Sneezes the petals off a large group of flowers]
[With a single sneeze, he blows away Jon, Odie, and a whole room’s worth of furniture]
[Sneezes hard enough to propel himself partially through a wall, widening an existing mousehole]
[Can walk on ceilings]
[Again]
[And again]
[His weight crushes a scale]
[Even Santa Claus thinks he’s fat]
[His weight bends a long wooden table]
[His weight tips over Jon’s bed]
[Again]
[His weight bends metal playground equipment]
[His weight causes a section of floor to collapse]
[His weight topples a tree when he tries to climb it]
[His weight causes ripples in a hardwood floor]
[He is so heavy that he causes Jon’s chair to bounce into the air just by running nearby]
[He’s heavy enough to pound a very deep, very wide hole into the ground just by cannonballing into a pool]
[His weight warps the very medium of his existence, causing a panel he’s in to bend]
[Wins a cat show]
[Nobody can kill him without an appointment]
[Apparently, he’s already dead]
[With a single swipe, perfectly slices a loaf of bread]
[Swats three spiders at once]
[Scares off a dog larger than he is]
[Can intimidate machinery into fixing itself]
[Intimidates light itself to move]
[Intimidates a balloon into staying afloat]
[He commands snow to stop falling. With a glare, he even sends an errant flake back into the sky.]
[Is completely unafraid of monsters]
[Kills a flower with a single word[
[His breath melts a vase and a picture frame]
[His breath melts a metal fork and a glass cup]
[His breath melts his own teeth]
[His breath instantly knocks out Jon]
[Nails Jon right under the nose with a party horn]
[Lands several thrown donuts on Jon’s novelty moustache]
[Hits Jon right between the eyes with a toy bow & arrow]
[Plays at skeet shooting pieces of toast as they pop out of a toaster, and doesn’t miss a single one (we don’t see any arrows on the ground that haven’t impaled toast)
[Nails Jon in the head with a rock]
[Nails a mouse with a snowball]
[Rapidly nails Jon and Odie with snowballs]
[Uses a birdbath to hit Jon with a perfectly ricocheted snowball]
[Can rapidly spit tennis balls like an automatic launcher]
[Is an expert fisherman---without even using a pole!]
[Pretty good at throwing his voice]
[Steals Jon’s credit cards and uses them to buy himself a designer Italian suit]
[Pickpockets an old man without him noticing]
[Manages to sneak inside his own birthday cake without Jon or Odie seeing him]
[Is aware he’s in a comic strip]
[Addresses his reader directly]
[Knows he’s printed on paper]
[Is aware what angle he is being drawn from]
[Pops his own snooze bubble]
[Rotates his own snooze bubble]
[Uses his knowledge of the fourth wall to steal a snooze bubble from Jon, depriving him of sleep]
[Smacks Jon in the face with his snooze bubble]
[Throws his own snooze bubble at Jon as a weapon]
[Can play a piano from inside of it]
[Can play guitar]
[Makes a sandwich so large it stretches from his house across the street]
[Can precisely identify the dish a stain came from by taste]
[Knows what old hyena tastes like]
[Hears Jon whispering from across the house]
[While asleep, hears a pizza delivery happening three blocks away and is able to tell what toppings are on it.]
[Can “hear ice cream”]
[Implied to also be able to hear donuts.]
[Chases an invisible mouse]
[Steals a security camera out from under Jon’s nose, then pawns it without him noticing until later]
[Plans out an exact chain reaction triggered by John slamming a door]
[Perfectly measures out a hole to cut in the floor for Jon]
[Double-Bamboozles Jon]
[Melts his rubber mouse down and makes earplugs out of it]
[Builds a revolving glass door into a refrigerator]
[Rebuilds the front door so that it opens like a pet door and vice versa.]
[Builds a trap door into a table for spiders]
[Uses parts from an automatic dog door Jon bought to create a remote activated trap door for Odie]
[Disables Jon’s brakes]
[Reprogramme’s a scale with a complex AI. ]
[Creates an elaborate blueprint for his birthday cake, including electrical wiring schematics ]
[Builds a remote activated trap for birds “disguised” as a birdbath]
[Creates an elaborate trap for a dog]
[Sets a working trap for Santa Claus]
[Sets traps for mailmen]
[Sets up snowball lobbing booby traps all over the yard]
[Robs a bank. Claims it was an accident.]
[Steals milk from babies]
[Turns Jon into a tourist attraction, and gets on the news]
[Has a secret plan to lead cats to world domination]
[Counts all the bricks in a silo]
[Knows the exact moment when Jon will wake up every morning]
[Pulls all the fabric off a chair, then knits it perfectly back into shape]
[Using only his claws, carves a sofa into a statue of himself]
[Elongates his body]
[Has his body squeezed and elongated by a corset]
[Has his neck stretched thin by a tight turtleneck]
[Has his body stretched thin and compressed by a shrinking sweater]
[Squashes himself flat with a recliner]
[Able to have his body freely stretched]
[Temporarily alters his body to appear extremely muscular]
[Again]
[Rapidly accumulates muscle mass in his arms simply by eating]
[Has his face squashed into a square shape from sleeping in a corner]
[After colliding with Odie, both have their front halves flattened]
[Can tuck his head into his body like a turtle]
[Can transfer his mass from his torso to his tail]
[Gets squashed into a space between fence posts]
[Squeezes into a vase far smaller than him]
[Again]
[Squeezes his entire body into a coffee cup]
[He and Jon’s heads are shoved into the same bottle]
[Hides his entire body flat under his cat bed]
[Hides his entire body behind a thin lamp]
[Stretches his arm to fit around a refrigerator]
[Stretches his lips far from his face]
[Extends his jaw]
[Transforms into a monster on Halloween]
[Is able to breathe while submerged in food]
[Has his face turned upside down]
[Has his face pucker inwards, folding in on itself]
[Has opposable thumbs]
[Sheds. A lot. Completely blankets John and a table with shed hair.]
[His stomach can separate from the rest of his body, acting independently]
[By viewing the world upside down, he alters the direction of gravity]
[Able to move in slow motion at will, reducing his falls to a snail’s pace]
[Warps reality by tilting a painting]
[Sends Odie through time into the future with a kick]
[Wills himself from an alternate time back to his own]
[Can apparently travel freely between comic strips. Also more fourth wall awareness.]
[Just.. completely breaks physics]
[Seems to be able to make wishes and have them granted, albeit in a way he doesn’t always like]
[Makes a birthday with for his cake to be bigger and has it come true]
[Manifests objects from his dreams in real life]
[Seems to be able to physically manifest and interact with figments of his psyche. Eats donuts representing his conscience, leaving behind crumbs that indicate they’re in some way real. ]
[Can infiltrate other people’s daydreams and interact with them]
[Breaks a mirror with his looks]
[Sings a note high enough to “shatter paper”]
[Flicks off Odie’s nose]
[Swaps noses with Odie, forcing him to suffer a sneeze]
[Adjusts a dog’s nose like a dial to force it to bark more quietly]
[Seemingly teleports Odie’s head from a top hat into his food dish]
[Moves a mousehole while it’s still in the wall]
[Has a flamethrower]
[Has a chainsaw]
[Has a dart gun]
[Has a giant slingshot]
[Has a “mouse call”]

Things I really like but also hate

[King Kong canonically exists in Garfield’s world]
[So do monsters]
[And aliens]

The Guess Who - Running Back Thru Canada Live in Winnipeg June 30, 2000 Canwest Global Park Winnipeg MB CA *** Enjoy the full concert FREE @ https://bit.ly/guesswhorunningbackthrucanada *** A Hometown Throwdown Live in the Heart of the Nation by R. Dale Roth 2024-05-18
At the end of June in the summer of 2000, Canadian rock royalty, The Guess Who, stopped Running Back Thru Canada smack dab in the middle of the nation, just long enough to unleash a massive sonic super storm on the band's hometown of Winnipeg.
Under a prairie sky ablaze with the setting sun, Winnipeg's favorite sons, The Guess Who, returned to the heart of their homeland for a concert that resonated with the pride and passion of a nation. Canwest Global Park, a baseball diamond transformed into a rock 'n' roll cathedral, became the epicenter of a musical pilgrimage for fans who had followed the band's journey from local heroes to international icons.
The air crackled with anticipation as the stadium lights illuminated the stage, revealing a backdrop steeped in history: vintage amps that had witnessed countless jam sessions, a drum kit weathered by years on the road, and an unmistakable sense of homecoming. The crowd, a sea of red and white, erupted in a chorus of cheers as the band emerged, their faces beaming with the joy of playing for their hometown faithful.
From the opening chords, it was clear that this was no ordinary concert. It was a communion between a band and its people, a celebration of shared memories and a testament to the enduring power of music to connect and inspire. Burton Cummings, his voice as strong and soulful as ever, poured his heart into every lyric, his every gesture a tribute to the city that had nurtured his talent.
Original guitarist Randy Bachman, a hometown hero in his own right, unleashed a torrent of electrifying riffs, his fingers dancing across the fretboard with the ease and confidence of a seasoned veteran. The rhythm section, a well-oiled machine, provided the driving beat that propelled the music forward, while the keyboards added a touch of psychedelic magic.
As the night unfolded, The Guess Who revisited their greatest hits, each song a cherished memory brought to life. The crowd sang along with every word, their voices blending in a harmonious chorus that echoed throughout the stadium. Cummings, visibly moved by the outpouring of affection, shared anecdotes and reflections on his lifelong love affair with Winnipeg, his words resonating with the deep sense of belonging that permeated the atmosphere.
The stage setup, while simple, was imbued with a sense of history and authenticity. The lighting, a kaleidoscope of colors and patterns, transformed the stage into a living canvas, enhancing the emotional impact of each song. The sound, crisp and powerful, ensured that every note reached every corner of the stadium, creating an immersive experience that transcended the physical space.
As the concert reached its crescendo, The Guess Who unleashed a barrage of their most beloved anthems, the crowd responding with an outpouring of unbridled enthusiasm. The final encore, a heartfelt rendition of a song that has become synonymous with Canadian identity, brought tears to many eyes, a testament to the power of music to evoke deep emotions and forge lasting bonds.
The Guess Who's homecoming concert was more than just a performance; it was a celebration of the unbreakable ties that bind a band to its roots, a reminder that home is where the heart is, and that the music born from that connection has the power to transcend time and touch the souls of generations to come.
Song by song:
1. "Runnin' Back To Saskatoon": The opening chords of this prairie anthem resonated with the crowd, setting the tone for a night of hometown pride and musical nostalgia. Cummings' vocals, infused with a sense of longing and belonging, captured the essence of the Canadian experience.
2. "Rain Dance": The band's signature blend of rock and psychedelia was on full display in this swirling, hypnotic number. Bachman's guitar work, a blend of bluesy riffs and soaring solos, transported the audience to another dimension.
3. "Glamour Boy": This hard-rocking track showcased the band's raw energy and rebellious spirit. Cummings' snarling vocals and Bachman's blistering guitar solos ignited the crowd, sparking a wave of headbanging and fist-pumping.
4. "These Eyes": One of the band's most beloved ballads, this song evoked a bittersweet sense of longing and regret. Cummings' emotive vocals, accompanied by a delicate piano melody, touched the hearts of everyone in the stadium.
5. "Lookin' Out for #1": This self-affirming anthem, with its driving rhythm and catchy chorus, had the crowd singing along at the top of their lungs. The song's message of self-reliance and determination resonated with the independent spirit of the Canadian people.
6. "No Sugar Tonight/New Mother Nature": This medley of two classic hits showcased the band's versatility, seamlessly blending hard rock with acoustic folk. Cummings' dynamic vocals and Bachman's intricate guitar work kept the audience on the edge of their seats.
7. "Let It Ride": This bluesy rocker, with its swaggering groove and suggestive lyrics, injected a dose of raw sensuality into the set. Cummings' playful vocals and Bachman's searing guitar solos fueled the crowd's passion.
8. "Undun": This haunting ballad, with its melancholic melody and poetic lyrics, showcased the band's introspective side. Cummings' plaintive vocals, backed by a sparse arrangement, created a moment of quiet reflection.
9. "American Woman": The band's most iconic anthem, this song exploded with an energy that shook the stadium to its foundations. Cummings' defiant vocals and Bachman's iconic riff ignited a frenzy of national pride.
10. "Albert Flasher": This quirky, tongue-in-cheek number, with its playful lyrics and infectious rhythm, brought a smile to everyone's face. Cummings' mischievous vocals and the band's lighthearted performance created a moment of pure fun.
11. "Takin' Care of Business": This high-octane rocker, with its driving beat and motivational lyrics, had the crowd on their feet and singing along. The song's message of hard work and perseverance resonated with the Canadian work ethic.
12. "Laughing": This introspective ballad, with its melancholic melody and poignant lyrics, explored the darker side of human emotions. Cummings' vulnerable vocals and the band's understated performance created a moment of shared empathy.
13. "Bus Rider": This funky, groove-laden track, with its catchy chorus and danceable rhythm, injected a dose of soulful energy into the set. Cummings' playful vocals and the band's tight interplay had the crowd moving to the beat.
14. "No Time": This hard-rocking anthem, with its driving rhythm and rebellious lyrics, unleashed a wave of raw energy. Cummings' powerful vocals and Bachman's blistering guitar solos ignited the crowd's passion.
15. "Share The Land": The concert culminated with this iconic anthem, a rallying cry for unity and compassion. Cummings' heartfelt vocals and the band's soaring performance brought the crowd together in a shared moment of national pride.
Featuring: The Guess Who
Burton Cummings - lead vocals, piano, harmonica, flute, guitar
Randy Bachman - vocals, guitar
Don McDougall - vocals, guitar
Bill Wallace - bass, vocals
Garry Peterson - drums, percussion, vocals
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f/22 i have something wrong with me. idk what or even if it’s a pd but something i have always had. preface i do have an anxious attachment and ADHD and OCD and have HIGHLY masked my whole life with ADHD. i stopped masking so much when i left for college bc my highschool town was AWFUL and so judgemental of everything. i had lots of friends that were of some status in town but never super close really to any of them but a few. they’ve all forgotten me and stopped talking to me now. when i was in hs i felt like EVERYONE masked even neurotypical bc my town was just like that (southern US college town for you). i feel like i have ALWAYS just had this innate need to feel VALUED. like it rules my life. Teachers, friends, boys…. i want to feel like DESIRABLE (in the most shallow sense) people value me. Like, nothing was a greater compliment from someone i didn’t even like really but was super pretty and popular and kinda cool but popular and rich nonetheless, told me she thought i was funny and seemed like she liked hanging out with me that night. Boys who had status liking me was my life. it consumed my life. it’s all i cared about when it was happening. i constantly daydreamed of dating a guy and being more popular for dating them but not really changing myself necessarily. I wanted men who gave me attention but weren’t reserved to snatching it away and making me try harder to prove i’m desirable like a fucking show pony or something. i would hoard secrets and get out crumbs of intimacy on the first few times of talking. I have always wanted to be the CENTER of attention but, and this is key and crucial, not to a CROWD. Nothing makes me more uncomfortable than all the crowds eyes on me. i become SO crushingly insecure when that happens and can only think about a booger in my nose or a roll of fat or bad posture or them seeing my forehead wrinkles. I don’t crave attention from crowds of 3+ more people. i just want to captivate the person i want to think i’m interesting. I want to be desired by a person i deem desirable and at that second in time, only them. i get off on intimacy with people, it’s all i want. i want to know every secret they have even if i don’t CARE truly ab them and i wanna know it quick so they will ultimately remember i held their intimate details so carefully. I want to be so extremely intimate (while minding social cues) with people i meet and find worthy. but if they’re too easy to get (friends and men) then i really do not care. their attention becomes nothing to me. there has to be a constant, even subliminal, game(proving that i am desirable or different or special) for me to feel like i NEED them. it’s defeating when i feel like they never realize at all so i don’t like that, there has to be some validation here and there. It rules my life. a guy told me once he believes that there is just some “neuroticism” i will never get rid of. i have been thinking about that constantly since. even tho i’m trying to grow and fix my anxious attachment that need for attention is still ruling my life. it’s almost like i just wanna be able to scream I TOLD YOU SO but i need to keep repeating that pattern forever to feel excitement and emotions in my life. if i solved all the i told you so’s i’d search for more to obsess about. i daydream all the time. also, i cope in a way when someone i thought was desirable but gave me NO attention ever except negative that i hate that person, they have some flaw and they are overhyped. if they don’t like me at all and can’t see anything at all that’s valuable in me then i hate them and they aren’t valuable. it’s ego but also something more. constantly proving myself is ruining my life but i can’t stop with doing it. it’s almost like i love it but it makes me so exhausted and sad. i feel like i’m not even a person sometimes. i have no hobbies that are past a surface level, i think things are cool but if i can’t do them or i’m not good at them i resent the hobby it’s like i don’t enjoy anything but learning about things. i learn to impress people when i can say i know something. hobbies too, hobbies to me are vehicles of impressing people and i want hobbies that are impressive but never too much to where i’d embarrass myself (like piano, i could never be amazing so i only know chords and it’s not a hobby i care about). I have embarrassed myself by liking things and making it known, i’m not amazing at. i have no self esteem, it’s like i’m just constantly coping with “oh they just don’t know me that’s why they don’t like me” or “something is wrong w them they know me but don’t value me” i’m so shallow, but i don’t act like it when trying to get desirables love. i give and give and give to try to be of value but i hate every second of giving. i just want the feeling of they value me. i don’t even want full on value and love it triggers me when people fully value me, unless i feel like i have put in so much work and earned their codependent-feeling validation. When people are good people and automatically love the effort and attention i give them and give it back i get triggered and stop valuing them as much and kinda ghost them. I HATE THAT about myself and feel so ashamed but my need for this unreachable attention and validation that i EARNED just eats me up constantly. i have no friends currently and the ones i have kinda don’t value me and make me feel embarrassed bc they don’t see me as desirable but love my attention and the effort i put in. i hate them for that but i guess it’s what i crave deep down. i think, well one day they’ll value me. they don’t post me on social media but post everyone else they are friends w, but act like i’m the realest person they know. it’s like they feel embarrassed of me but at the same time value my love and attention and effort so much they still hangout with me. can anyone point me in the direction bc this isn’t normal that this controls my whole life and even my personality. i feel like i have to mask so hard but also be socially-acceptably esoteric too. it’s so fucking hard. like i said all my interests have to be so INTERESTING but not too weird. it’s like i don’t even know what i really and truly like bc i constantly am focusing on how ill be perceived. i want to be normal but also esoteric. i want to be normal until someone i perceive as desirable and different let’s me unmask a little and GETS it. they find me endearing. please point me in the right direction. i’m losing my mind. i can’t live like this forever and want to know how to grow.

I think I already know the answer to this but I just need some confirmation.
I'm an intermediate classical pianist, my technical and aural abilities I would say are my weakest and my reading, theory and memory are my strongest. This means that I'm more comfortable slowly learning a piece through the score and once it's almost at performance quality I start memorizing, obviously this takes several weeks for pieces at my level.
Like many people, I also enjoy popular songs and whenever I tried learning them my approach has been (instead of learning by ear or with chord/lyric charts) buying the official piano/vocal/guitar book and start learning the song like if it was a classical piece. I quickly find out the the arrangements are harder then I thought (beautiful and very well written nontheless) and I know I can learn them but it would take me several weeks and it would also be very hard to play them at tempo because they often involve lots of chord changes in the RH while playing the melody at the same time. Even if I manage to learn them, my brain is at full capacity and just the thought of singing on top of it is impossible, let alone play along with a singer friend.
After much thought I think I am better off learning these songs like if they were jazz Standards. Treat the music books like lead sheets (just memorize the chord symbols and the melody) and slowly start adding my own flavor of improvisation and voicings on top, I am in the process of learning jazz so in a few months I'll be able to do it.
I feel like this way I'll be able to play these songs much sooner and it won't take much of my brain capacity because I'll be limited by my own technical and improvisation ability anyway, leaving lots of room for singing or even transposing to other keys. I guess bottom line is, these songs should be learned aurally instead of by rote memorization. Any thoughts?

maybe we can help each other
hi, my name is inés and i write my own songs, and i also sing (i'm currently still learning to sing to keep improving). last year i got a piano for christmas, but i haven't got the time (or the money) to start piano lessons. anyways, i try to learn some things whenever i can, and as i know some chords and understand music (not professionally, but i do), i use the piano to keep writing my own songs.
a few months ago i finished a song, and you know, i tend to be really exigent and hard on myself when i do something, so that's why i see this one as one of the most special ones I've ever written — because i genuinely like it!
the problem is i don't really know how to play piano correctly, so whenever i want to start recording it i just get really frustrated that it's not how i want it to sound like. i've always thought i could do everything by myself, but after all that's not always what's right, and i think i need help.
i'm a Spanish teen singer-songrwriter who would really much want to get into the music world, and who would love to meet other teen musicians that want to meet teams to make music and nice songs together.
if you have read all the post, first: thank u :) and secondly, if you are interested in us working together (with no pressure, just to start sharing songs, music and chilling), please DM me :)
(ps: please, if you're not the "target audience" for this post, just keep scrolling, and please don't be mean)

This is usually not a problem for me as performance anxiety is limited to if I don’t know the part very well or if it’s the first show of the season, which is the family day show. I’m a seasoned veteran who has done this for over half of my life(Not marching band, musical performance in general) but I still fall victim to Performance Anxiety once in a while. The last two band camp conclusion performances of the show I felt like I was going to faint, both due to the extreme southern summer heat and my own anxiety. During the season, I’m fine and I can usually play without anxiety, but I do become anxious when I’m not securing my part or when I’m worried about technical difficulties. It’s even worse for me because my performance is basically all my hands and my right foot(I’m a synthesizer) and it’s hard to form your hands into the right chords when they are shaking violently, and you can’t even feel them properly. When I did my solo for the first time last year at the end of the show, I got the tingle. Does anyone else struggle with your hands during anxiety? How can you prevent your hands from spazing out when performing? Im the only one on my instrument and I tend to get solos so I need to make sure my hands are in good shape. I won’t be doing any sort of performance on piano or synthesizer until two months from now, but it’s always good to be prepared.

I was contacted by a local pianist to play a wedding with them (I play violin). This is a pianist I have worked with before and knew ahead of time that they struggle with sight reading, timing, and playing well in an ensemble setting since they typically play solo. They are also a good friend who I care about on a non-professional level.
I practiced for a couple of hours before the wedding and learned the melody lines from their piano sheet music that they are used to playing as an effort to make it easier for them since I knew that sight reading new music was harder for them. We rehearsed together for a little over an hour right before the gig and I realized things were dire. Timing was totally off, their own bass lines and melodies weren't lining up so I had no idea where to place my melodies. The set was all pop music and rhythmic interpretations were all over the place. I tried to make suggestions like, "just play the bass lines and I will play melody" but that seemed really hard for them to separate. My partner who was listening later remarked that unfortunately since I was the main melody line, I was the one that sounded off as I was trying to match them and land the beats together, many of which were very delayed as they figured out how to play the chords.
We play the wedding and it was not fun. I felt frustrated the whole time that things were not together. So many wrong notes and timings. I was doing my best but I was definitely thrown off sometimes. Between the ceremony and cocktail hour the pianist remarked that whoops... they "did not practice enough". Three days later I hear from the pianist that the bride sent a message saying that I played really off and that it sounded like I hadn't prepared or looked at the music and now they want a new recording to go with their wedding video.
The pianist did not take any responsibility. They are asking me what we should do.
The recording the client has is from a phone that was broadcasting a live recording of the event. It was faced away from us so a lot of the piano notes are inaudible (and they dropped out a bunch of times). I also think my playing is fine. Since it was such an important moment, I powered through and kept the tempo steady (though on the slow side for the song but that is typically for a wedding style interpretation). I confirmed this with a metronome against the recording. Pitch wise there is no glaringly bad or wrong notes. It isn't the best recording but I wouldn't be ashamed to post it online and I have a pretty high standard.
I wonder if they are using this instance as a way to communicate an overall disappointment in the music which would honestly make more sense than the comments they made on my playing on that specific song.
I also play music at weddings full time (pianist does not) so it really stings that this couple is unhappy with my work and could potentially damage my reputation were they to say something to the venue or leave me a review.
What should I do?
*I did not contract with this client. My own contract has protections against stylistic interpretations and rules for live recordings that would avoid this situation.

This is halloween chords to piano

Piano

23rd: Jane Bright (Nicaragua - 6th)