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A list of resources for beginning/intermediate musicians!

Woodwinds 🎼

(A quick note - cork grease is an absolute must for all woodwind instruments EXCEPT the flute. Please for the love of all that is holy do not put cork grease on your flute. It will tarnish the joints and can cause them to get stuck together.)

Flute

How to Clean a Flute: DO NOT PUT CORK GREASE ON YOUR BABY.

Basic Flute Warmups

Oboe

How to Clean an Oboe

Basic Oboe Warmups

How Your Reeds Are Made: See why they’re so expensive now?

Clarinet

How to Clean a Bb Clarinet

How to Clean a Bass Clarinet

Basic and Advanced Clarinet Warmups

Bassoon

How to Clean a Bassoon

Bassoon Warmups

Saxophone

How to Clean a Saxophone

Alto Sax Warmups

Tenor Sax Warmups

Bari Sax Warmups

Brass 🎺

(Clear your spit valve regularly. Extra spit sloshing around in there will degrade your instrument over time. Besides, we can hear you gurgling and it’s not pleasant. Here’s how to clean an icky-sounding brass instrument.)

(French) Horn

Basic Horn Care: Horns need special attention because of their rotary valves. It’s important that they’re properly maintained.

A List of Horn Warmups

Trumpet

How to Clean a Trumpet

Trumpet Warmups

Trombone

How to Care for Bass and Tenor (regular) Trombones

How to Oil/Grease Your Slide

Low Brass Warmups & Maintenance

Baritone/Euphonium

Baritone & Euphonium Daily & Monthly Cleaning

Low Brass Warmups & Maintenance

Tuba

Cleaning a Tuba: If you have a rotary valve tuba, stop right there. Cleaning a rotary valve tuba the wrong way can damage it. Please see Basic Horn Care for how to maintain rotary valves. If you have a regular ol’ piston-valve tuba, see How to Clean a Trumpet.

Not sure what kind of tuba you have? Check here.

Low Brass Warmups & Maintenance

Strings 🎻

(If you’re having problems with your violin/viola/cello/bass, talk to your teacher or a luthier. Stringed instruments are delicate and can be damaged easily.)

For All Stringed Instruments:

Here’s all about rosin.

Instrument storage

Warming up

Got bridge problems?

Violin/Viola

No violin tips list would be complete without a link to TwoSet. Violas proceed at your own risk.

Violin & Viola Basic Maintenance

Violin Tuning: If you are a beginner, it’s usually not a good idea to tune using the pegs.

Viola Tuning: Again, beginners should not use pegs to tune.

A comparison of clefs

Cello

Cello Maintenance

How to Sit

Double Bass

How to take care of your monster of an instrument

Tips for Double Bass

Percussion 🥁

For All Percussion

Percussion Tips

Timpani

Weird Timpani Facts

Tuning Tips

Choir 🎤

Choral Singing Tips

Learning to Sight Read

Basic Music Theory

How to Sing in a Group

Written twelve and a bit pages of fiction and have failed to finish one four page report oops

I wish to make an EVIL comment section, tell me one foul deed you have done this past week

I’ve recently seen the idea of Jaskier being incredibly skilled with a dagger/sword/bow etc. becoming more popular and I am very excited

Basically he’s multiclassing as a bard/rogue and he’s damn good at it.

Years of learning every instrument and song he came across and talking his way into and out of trouble lent him to quick hands and an even quicker tongue

Subsequently years of getting too drunk at shady bars and fucking noblemens wives, sons, daughters, have led to him picking up a few... necessary skills for his survival

Be that knowing where to punch a man to make him fall or how much power to put behind a dagger so it finds purchase in a pursuers gut, he was no damsel

But sometimes it was nice to not have to always watch your back, to not always have to sit facing the door and sleep close to the window, so when Geralt came along, he made some assumptions, and it wasn’t Jaskiers job to correct him, so he let the Witcher do what he did best, no not kill monsters, he let him protect.

dude the drizzle is gorgeous! I'm also so impressed with the piping!

Inspired by the latest chapter of Parallel Lines by @hypnotisedfireflies, and also @elpickett's cake, I made a honey cake today. It's delicious, and next time I make it I will find a way to cram even more honey into it. Also, I'm really proud of how it looks! My cake decorating can usually be described as 'functional' at best 😂

My other suggestion for yoga is down dog! It’s free if you’re in education until January I believe and is great.

I believe in free education, one that’s available to everyone; no matter their race, gender, age, wealth, etc… This masterpost was created for every knowledge hungry individual out there. I hope it will serve you well. Enjoy!

FREE ONLINE COURSES (here are listed websites that provide huge variety of courses)

Alison 

Coursera

FutureLearn

open2study

Khan Academy

edX

P2P U

Academic Earth

iversity

Stanford Online

MIT Open Courseware

Open Yale Courses

BBC Learning

OpenLearn

Carnegie Mellon University OLI

University of Reddit

Saylor

IDEAS, INSPIRATION & NEWS (websites which deliver educational content meant to entertain you and stimulate your brain)

TED

FORA

Big Think 

99u

BBC Future

Seriously Amazing

How Stuff Works

Discovery News

National Geographic

Science News

Popular Science

IFLScience

YouTube Edu

NewScientist

DIY & HOW-TO’S (Don’t know how to do that? Want to learn how to do it yourself? Here are some great websites.)

wikiHow

Wonder How To

instructables

eHow

Howcast

MAKE

Do it yourself

FREE TEXTBOOKS & E-BOOKS

OpenStax CNX

Open Textbooks

Bookboon

Textbook Revolution

E-books Directory

FullBooks

Books Should Be Free

Classic Reader

Read Print

Project Gutenberg

AudioBooks For Free

LibriVox

Poem Hunter

Bartleby

MIT Classics

Many Books

Open Textbooks BCcampus

Open Textbook Library

WikiBooks

SCIENTIFIC ARTICLES & JOURNALS

Directory of Open Access Journals

Scitable

PLOS

Wiley Open Access

Springer Open

Oxford Open

Elsevier Open Access

ArXiv

Open Access Library

LEARN:

1. LANGUAGES

Duolingo

BBC Languages

Learn A Language

101languages

Memrise

Livemocha

Foreign Services Institute

My Languages

Surface Languages

Lingualia

OmniGlot

OpenCulture’s Language links

2. COMPUTER SCIENCE & PROGRAMMING

Codecademy

Programmr

GA Dash

CodeHS

w3schools

Code Avengers

Codelearn

The Code Player

Code School

Code.org

Programming Motherf*?$%#

Bento

Bucky’s room

WiBit

Learn Code the Hard Way

Mozilla Developer Network

Microsoft Virtual Academy

3. YOGA & MEDITATION

Learning Yoga

Learn Meditation

Yome

Free Meditation

Online Meditation

Do Yoga With Me

Yoga Learning Center

4. PHOTOGRAPHY & FILMMAKING

Exposure Guide

The Bastards Book of Photography

Cambridge in Color

Best Photo Lessons

Photography Course

Production Now

nyvs

Learn About Film

Film School Online

5. DRAWING & PAINTING

Enliighten

Ctrl+Paint

ArtGraphica

Google Cultural Institute

Drawspace

DragoArt

WetCanvas

6. INSTRUMENTS & MUSIC THEORY

Music Theory

Teoria

Music Theory Videos

Furmanczyk Academy of Music

Dave Conservatoire

Petrucci Music Library

Justin Guitar

Guitar Lessons

Piano Lessons

Zebra Keys

Play Bass Now

7. OTHER UNCATEGORIZED SKILLS

Investopedia

The Chess Website

Chesscademy

Chess.com

Spreeder

ReadSpeeder

First Aid for Free

First Aid Web

NHS Choices

Wolfram Demonstrations Project

Please feel free to add more learning focused websites. 

*There are a lot more learning websites out there, but I picked the ones that are, as far as I’m aware, completely free and in my opinion the best/ most useful.

Bottomless vales and boundless floods,

And chasms, and caves, and Titan woods,

[...]

Mountains toppling evermore

Into seas without a shore;

Seas that restlessly aspire,

Surging, unto skies of fire;

[...]

There the traveller meets, aghast,

Sheeted Memories of the Past-

Shrouded forms that start and sigh

As they pass the wanderer by-

White-robes forms of friends long given,

In agony, to the Earth - and Heaven.

—Dreamland, Edgar Allen Poe

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Okay queen!!!

Loki Laufeyson confirming he’s bi to another version of himself while he’s getting drunk on a train riding towards the end of the world during Pride Month was not on my 2021 bingo

i didn't get to go into this in as much detail as I wanted in oathbreaker because it was already at like 13k words when I stopped

But in my head:

they weren't trying specifically for a kid but they also weren't trying not to, they both kinda thought they were too old

they both had a really rough time when they first found out - Maria because of Kevin and being pregnant again when her son should be an adult but was stuck forever at three, and Tommy because of Sarah because I will die on the hill of Tommy basically raised Sarah with Joel and it broke him just as much when he died

this is when they made the memorial we see as a way to remind themselves they aren't forgetting Sarah and Kevin

by the time Maria's in her second trimester they are both incredibly excited but show it very differently

Maria has done this once, and is excited to be a parent without freaking out every time the baby does anything

Maria is also greatly enjoying not throwing up the whole time like she did with Kevin

Tommy also panics constantly whenever Maria looks even marginally uncomfortable

Tommy has just gone fully insane over being a father

Maria is four months along and he starts rebuilding part of the house so they have a proper nursery

He makes a rocking chair and a crib and a load of wooden toys

He also starts bringing back baby clothes from patrol runs except he has no idea how newborn sizing works so a bunch of it goes to the coop in town

Maria does not take maternity leave until she is like, actively in labour, and then she still finishes a council meeting before telling Tommy who freaks out and sprints for the doctor, tripping on his shoelaces as he runs out the door so now the do tor has to deal with Maria giving birth and also Tommy's broken nose

The baby is incapable of going to sleep without being held because between Maria and Tommy they are always holding him and then Ellie and joel get back and this baby is spoiled as hell (as all babies should be)

picturing the sweet shocked look on tommy’s face when maria told him she was pregnant

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