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Robert Komaniecki

1 year

I teach college music theory, but I'm also a new dad. I decided to combine my professional and personal identities and make a thread of music for babies where the adult musicians went way, way harder than they had to. (1/12)

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Robert Komaniecki

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1 year

Me: I need a "personal massager" Hitachi: No problem, here's our Magic Wand. Anything else? Me: You wouldn't happen to know where I can get a 20-ton industrial crawler excavator would you? Hitachi: You're not gonna believe this

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Robert Komaniecki

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5 months

It has been brought to my attention that a version of this tweet translated into Japanese has been shared with people working at the Hitachi corporate headquarters in Tokyo

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1 year

Me: I need a "personal massager" Hitachi: No problem, here's our Magic Wand. Anything else? Me: You wouldn't happen to know where I can get a 20-ton industrial crawler excavator would you? Hitachi: You're not gonna believe this

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Robert Komaniecki

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1 month

6 years ago, a lady posted in /r/aquariums that she was going to DIY an 11,000 gallon shark tank in her living room. A lot of people thought she was crazy. She just finished

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Robert Komaniecki

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2 months

This woman could not have been more clear about not wanting to be infantilized, and yet

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Robert Komaniecki

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1 month

NOOOOOOO JASON DERULO

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7 months

I only just realized in "SexyBack" (2006) by Justin Timberlake, when Timbaland shouts "take it to the bridge!" they actually take it to the prechorus. I'm gonna be sick

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Robert Komaniecki

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20 days

Even journalists and academics still have to call it “X (formerly Twitter)” because our job is to write clearly and X as a noun is meaningless

Elon Musk - Parody

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Be Honest! Do you still call it Twitter or do you call it X?

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Robert Komaniecki

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1 year

losing it at this lady preaching abstinence at LSU and the students just going buck wild

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Robert Komaniecki

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4 months

People on Twitter: Bisexuality is the Israel of sexualities People in real life: hey man how’s it going

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Robert Komaniecki

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4 months

I’m crying, why did she Velcro her baby to the couch

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Robert Komaniecki

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4 months

Making an abstract art exhibit where if a guest says “I could paint that,” a fresh canvas and paints are lowered from the ceiling and a booming prerecorded voice says “DO IT THEN, SHIT HEAD”

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Robert Komaniecki

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8 months

This is the music toads listen to, I can’t explain it but it is

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Robert Komaniecki

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1 year

Saying “I can recognize this is AI lmao” is missing the point, your parents and grandparents are about to be bombarded with realistic fake propaganda images on Facebook and it’s going to work

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Robert Komaniecki

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10 months

Our kid's music teacher was introducing 7/8 meter, but she was counting it like "1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, (breath)" making it actually just 4/4, and my wife was grinning at me as I slowly lost my mind

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Robert Komaniecki

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2 years

Finally: Beethoven the way it was meant to be heard

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2 years

The world's first trombone rhythm game is instantly a GOTY contender. And no, I'm not kidding. Turn up the volume and hear Beethoven like you've never heard it before.

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Robert Komaniecki

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7 months

bro i'm worried about you, your leitmotif is interwoven with that of the antagonist

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Robert Komaniecki

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1 year

Imagine if "not separating the art from the artist" worked in both directions, like "granted, Greg's music sucks but I listen to it anyway because he's a nice guy"

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Robert Komaniecki

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1 month

Dolly Parton managing to play a D Major chord while wearing acrylic nails will never cease to amaze me

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Robert Komaniecki

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5 months

O come, let us adore Him

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Robert Komaniecki

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7 months

Boy do I have a university fall wind ensemble concert for you

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an outfit all men look hot in

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Robert Komaniecki

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1 year

“I have a PhD, I’m a professor, and yet I could be making more just teaching elementary school! It’s not fair!” my brother in christ have you ever been the only adult in a room of 28 first-graders

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Robert Komaniecki

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2 months

The Trautonium. Invented early 1930s. Just listen to this thing.

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Robert Komaniecki

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3 years

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Robert Komaniecki

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2 years

boy, do I have news for you about atonal music enjoyers

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Robert Komaniecki

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3 months

Her: Ok, host’s got 26 seconds left and then we close it out in G major with a bar added on the V for stage, rehearsal notes said last chord is a short hit. During commercial I’m trading fours with Vinnie, then switching to my second guitar- MoonMat on twitter: This bitch sucks

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3 months

This bitch sucks #SNL

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Robert Komaniecki

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1 year

Jokes aside, I don’t know if I have ever heard such an intense vocal fry in my life

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Robert Komaniecki

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4 months

Me: You gotta try this food, it’s a dish that my ancestors in Minnesota have served at important gatherings for generations The food:

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Robert Komaniecki

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10 months

No she wasn’t. Hope this helps

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Ella Fitzgerald was born with perfect pitch so precise that the band musicians she worked with would tune their instruments to her voice.

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Robert Komaniecki

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1 year

T-Pain covering Black Sabbath with grave sincerity is something I didn’t know I needed

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Robert Komaniecki

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1 month

Thinking about the building decorated with what appears to be the midi piano roll notation for “The Flintstones” theme

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1 year

this is music theory as far as I’m concerned

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Robert Komaniecki

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5 months

this would work on me

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Robert Komaniecki

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4 months

welcome. please take a seat on the jstool

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Robert Komaniecki

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19 days

@Reader10100 Great question. For starters people are not social media platforms

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4 months

Reading comprehension is at an all-time low. This dude’s brain is just soup

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Robert Komaniecki

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1 year

[Ad] Ladies! Take your satisfaction to new heights with the Hitachi ZXV1400 Treaded Excavator! 🥵🥵 only $112,000.00, diesel not included. Link in bio!

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Robert Komaniecki

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2 months

Man: I’m depressed Doctor: P░A░G░L░I░A░C░C░I ░IN░ T░O░W░N

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Robert Komaniecki

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1 year

Since his account could get nuked at any moment, here’s my personal favorite dril tweet

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Robert Komaniecki

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Imagine that the day you’re slotted to lecture on 4’33” there is a protest going on at your school that has gathered worldwide attention, and instead of taking the alley-oop for one of the most prescient lectures ever, you say “lecture canceled, it’s not quiet enough”

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Robert Komaniecki

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2 months

We all know about music made for video games, but what about music made *in* video games? Here's a thread of some of the wackiest and most impressive music made by gamers using in-game engines, sound effects, and materials.

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Robert Komaniecki

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4 years

German composers vs. Ludacris A THREAD:

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Robert Komaniecki

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4 months

Remembering this take

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3 months

Imagine peeing in the Beethoven’s 5th urinals

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Robert Komaniecki

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2 months

Twitter, summarized

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Robert Komaniecki

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2 months

I met my wife at an academic conference. We were both grad students, I saw her with some of her cohort, and I suddenly had a strong desire to ask the group of them if they wanted to grab lunch with my cohort. We talked to each other the whole time.

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Robert Komaniecki

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4 months

As a barista I found that rather being a dick about the real/Starbucks macchiato thing it was easier and nicer to just say “Just double-checking, a macchiato is espresso with a bit of foam. Is that what you want?”

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Once, I ordered a macchiato at a coffee shop and the barista condescendingly said, “you won’t like it. It’s not super sweet like it is at Starbucks.” And you know what? I didn’t like it. But I still ordered it every time I visited that coffee shop until it shut down.

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Robert Komaniecki

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2 years

BREAKING: Musicologists have discovered that the so-called "secret chord" played by David was in fact F minor. Researchers are describing God's taste in music as "surprisingly basic"

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Robert Komaniecki

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Me: *eyelid twitching, trying to remain calm by reminding myself that it's a class for literal toddlers and nobody else notices* My wife, who is the only other person in the room that notices:

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Robert Komaniecki

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In 1962, Raymond Scott set out with a modest goal: He wanted to make music to soothe babies. He ended up using electronics and made a minimalist masterpiece that predates other music like it by years. Before there was Kraftwerk, there was Soothing Sounds for Baby.

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Robert Komaniecki

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3 months

I know this woman did not just paint her countertops white

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1 month

The only way to shut down nepo baby discussions is to be like “yeah, I didn’t get famous solely due to my talent, it’s not an equal playing field and having parents in the industry helps” and yet none of these people have egos that allow them to say that

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Zooey Deschanel on being called a nepo baby "My father is a cinematographer ... no one is getting jobs because [of that]" Her dad is a 6X Oscar nominee and her mother is an actress

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1 year

Eurydice: Okay you’ve rescued me from the underworld just don’t look back or- Orpheus:

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6 months

One of the funniest interactions I’ve had on here

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3 years

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5 months

@owendotmusic Not sure where you got that impression my dude

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3 months

I believe this is an Oregon

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Robert Komaniecki

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3 years

Musicians, if a pianist ever bullies you, just ask them if they can play this

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1 month

@misselizabetka There's an entire room dedicated to filtration tech. I cannot believe the dedication and insanity of this person

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1 year

Musical masterworks of the Western classical canon vs. “Stacy’s Mom” by Fountains of Wayne A THREAD

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Robert Komaniecki

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1 year

Music theory professors:

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1 year

If you've never seen someone attempt to use music theory to explain how syncopation leaves you vulnerable to demonic possession, you're in for a real treat:

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Robert Komaniecki

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2 years

Sorry I’ve only played automatics, which one is the clutch and which is the brake again?

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Robert Komaniecki

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3 months

Last night Alicia Keys’s voice cracked (first video), and fascinatingly, the official NFL YouTube channel appears to be attempting to erase that little moment, having edited it out in their upload (second video).

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Robert Komaniecki

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I once met an aspiring choir conductor who said that he "didn't feel comfortable" around gay people, which is sort of like being an aspiring fisherman with a crippling fear of boats

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Robert Komaniecki

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1 year

Here’s my New Year’s Resolution

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1 year

I teach college music theory. Here are a bunch of musical moments from different genres that make my brain produce The Good Chemicals, along with a *mildly* technical explanation of what's going on musically. 1/🧵

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Robert Komaniecki

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1 year

When you say “classical music is more complex than _____ music,” you should specify what kind of complexity you’re talking about, because the average Doja Cat song is produced using a series of technologies and methods that would instantaneously kill Johann Sebastian Bach

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Robert Komaniecki

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1 year

Chatting about film music w/ students and trying "spotting," in which we watch a scene on mute, identify the moments we think there will be a musical cue, discuss possible techniques and tone, then compare to the finished product. Do you want to give it a try? (1/3)

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Robert Komaniecki

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1 year

musicians are real confident until you ask them to sightread alto clef and they start shaking and coughing up blood

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4 years

POV: You're supposed to be learning polyrhythm mnemonics, but your music teacher is going through a messy divorce

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2 years

Both of these are pictures of an electric bass

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2 months

“Hey I made a shit that says JAZZ ADDICTS but JAZZ is spelled with a saxophone” “Oh so you used a saxophone instead of a J? That’s sick” “Uhhhhh”

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Robert Komaniecki

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1 month

Normalize doing this in rented apartments

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1 year

Musicians and their drug of choice: Brass: Beer Piano: Nicotine Percussion: Caffeine Electronic: Marijuana Singers: Attention Double reeds: Whatever is in those little cups Strings: Hard liquor Clarinets: Jesus Guitar: LSD Flutes: Suppressed rage

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Robert Komaniecki

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10 months

Ella Fitzgerald was the absolute shit and one of the best singers to ever live, there’s your fun fact and engagement bait

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There’s this whole corner of parenting TikTok that is against playing with your kids and it bums me out, man

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4 months

Oh cool somebody put one of my middle school nightmares into music form

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Robert Komaniecki

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1 year

Music fun fact: The oldest flute is 60,000 years old, while the earliest indications of humans wearing pants date 20,000 years ago, indicating an approx. 40,000-year historical period where we had music, but no pants

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I’ll never forgive the people who tried to gaslight us into thinking that NFTs make sense

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@GotDiva She has multiple baby bonnet sharks.

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1 year

Got a TikTok comment “white guys will either have no rhythm at all or they’ll make you learn a 5-against-3 polyrhythm”

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Robert Komaniecki

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5 months

Truly the most unhinged end-of-semester gift a student has ever given me

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Robert Komaniecki

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1 year

wait a minute. Thinking about this for more than one second, this is definitely a thing

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Robert Komaniecki

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2 years

when you anticipate the V chord resolving to the tonic but instead it resolves to ♭VI

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1 year

Had a pop music student turn in one of the best final projects I’ve ever heard—a song with perfectly chopped vocals, unique samples, beautiful timbres, killer drum kit, even side chain compression. I asked her to list the DAW and tech she used. GarageBand and a laptop. 🤷

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Classical composers (c. 1500-1950) vs. Britney Spears A THREAD:

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I am at a musical instrument shop and I’ve never felt more tempted to act a fool in my entire life

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Robert Komaniecki

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With another semester ending, here's your annual reminder that teaching evaluations systemically disadvantage women. Even when controlling for grades and other factors, students (esp. males) consistently give female professors lower scores. This can have serious ramifications.🧵

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1 year

"autotune ruined music" my brother in christ you play a guitar with frets

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I’m in a local “find a babysitter” group on FB, and a 16 y/o girl just posted her summer availability, CPR certification, and a picture of herself and the replies from men are making me want to claw my own eyes out. how are there so many dudes like this

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Robert Komaniecki

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1 year

Academic jobs are often underpaid and unfair, but acting like being a professor is the big-leagues version of teaching secondary school is crazy to me. Very different skill sets

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Robert Komaniecki

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[music theory prof voice] okay folks, I know you're tired of the dusty old music. The Mozart. The Beethoven. You want to look at something modern. You want to see how music theory is relevant to music made today. Well, you're in luck. ... this next example, by the Beatles,

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Robert Komaniecki

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1 year

Saw this on reddit, idk what this professor was thinking.

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7 months

For those of you who are saying this is correct in Britain, a reminder that Timbaland is not British. You are getting him confused with Coldplay

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Robert Komaniecki

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@TheAAAgent @sonikudzu Actually the excavator is diesel powered

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@BethHunt94 This is fantastic, Sexyback Pirate Version when?!

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Unreal how Dolly Parton plays guitar with those acrylic nails

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"Where words fail, music speaks"- Hans Christian Anderson "Music in the soul can be heard by the universe"- Lao Tzu "Lordhavemercy.... GWOLLLLCK"- Elvis Presley

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