He was a huge Susannah Hoffs fan and wanted to date her. He gave her the song in an attempt to sway her. She still said no. Good song though! Here’s Prince’s original version.

Worth spending the time to try to train it. Mine is amazing.

Browse is completely programmed by Apple’s editorial team, there’s no awareness at all of who is looking at it. I just pretend it doesn’t exist because I am in no way interested in anything that is ever featured there.

Listen Now is where stuff that should appeal to you, personally, appears.

Just pure dumb luck. Being in the right place at the right time. I guess if there’s any takeaway from that, it’s just to stay attentive and stay open. You never know when the thing that’s going to change your life is going to arrive.

If your type system is too strict, it can be really annoying to work with and make simple things take longer.

Swift has entered the chat.

try mlmym.org - it’s lemmy with old.reddit skin.

so you’re a lemmy.world user, in theory just go to any community there that you’re interested in (eg: https://lemmy.world/c/technology) and click subscribe at the top right of the page.

if you find a community on another server that you’re interested in, let’s say “programmer_humor” on the “programming.dev” instance (https://programming.dev/c/programmer_humor), you can go to that community on lemmy world by searching for its name on the search page (the community box has a search icon that appears when you click on the triangle). that takes you the lemmy.world view of that community. you can subscribe from there. if you know the name of the community and the server instance you can just go straight to it by entering the URL in your browser like this:

https://lemmy.world/c/[email protected]

i’m not a huge fan of the lemmy web UI honestly, i find it a little clunky. there’s a bunch of good apps coming out now. i like wefwef.app (web app) and memmy (iOS). wefwef is surprisingly feature-rich and is being updated like crazy (2 or 3 big new features every day for the last few days).

One of my favorite tricks is to use the transpose track in Logic to shift everything. I’ll just do the 4 bar loop like you say, keep it going for a few minutes, and noodle some melody over the top, staying in the same key. But then you add some transpose events every 2 or 4 bars and boom, you sound like a genius. You can hear this technique in action on this track I did:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7bhQVhycAQ

(Around 2 minutes once the bass line kicks in.)