#piano tune

[mic-check-stims]

Neil banging out the tunes!!!!

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#stimboard #neil banging out the tunes #rainbow #music #piano #xylophone #kidcore #hands #toys #puzzle #blocks #slash j #4/13

[todayontumblr]

Thursday April 13th.

ffs neil will you stop banging out those damn tunes. it's the morning, for pete's sake

We won't ask you again, Neil—we have work first thing tomorrow and it is a big day at the office: we are presenting a keynote pointpower slideshow for the big cheese over at HQ to increase optimum brand synergy across all departments ahead of this upcoming 5th annual quarter in review, and we are getting pretty sick and tired you and that f*cking keyboard playing Clair de Lune (badly) on what you have apparently decided to be your very own live IRL ten-hour loop from early evening through the night until the break of day, because you are a rat, and rats are, of course, nocturnal!! 

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It all began on April 13th, 2006. Neil's alarm went off at around 7:30pm, just as the human world was winding down for the day. He sat on the edge of his bed, yawned, stttrrreeeeeeeeeeeeeeeetcchhed, cracked his fingers, and got to work. He tucked his tail beneath him and took his place at his grand, multi-colored piano, and began to play. And my goodness did he play. As if possessed by the spirits of the maestros of old, Neil's claws flowed up and down the keys in a manner not dissimilar to the ebb and flow of the oceans themselves. No one could believe their ears on that day, almost 20 years ago: after so much early promise, so much self-destruction, torment, and pain, Neil finally accomplished what so many knew he could do if only he could find it in himself to achieve it: he began banging out the tunes.

Only this was something of a pandora's box. It is, as we saw, nearly 20 years later—and Neil continues to bang them out with a vengeance, regardless of whether we have to be up early for work in the morning.  

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It is April 13th, 2009. Neil continues to play, enraptured by the majesty of the melody expressed by the delicate touch of claw on key in primary-colored plastic. As Neil reaches the end of the day's performance, a young man stands in his bedroom. It just so happens that this is the young man's birthday. Though it was thirteen years ago he was given life, it is, inexplicably, only today he will be given a name.

His name is John. As was previously mentioned it is his BIRTHDAY. A number of CAKES are scattered about his room. He has a variety of INTERESTS. He has a passion for REALLY TERRIBLE MOVIES. He likes to program computers but he is NOT VERY GOOD AT IT. He has a fondness for PARANORMAL LORE, and is an aspiring AMATEUR MAGICIAN. He also likes to play GAMES sometimes. 

As day dawns, Neil closes the fallboard upon the keys of his instrument for another year. John goes to retrieve his arms. And the rest, as they say, is history.

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It's April 13th, folks. You know what that means: it's time for #homestuck and #neil banging out the tunes.  

Go bananas x

#today on tumblr #homestuck #neil banging out the tunes #john egbert #neil #the perfect team #piano maestro #tunes #endless tunes #4/13 #413 #homestuck 413 #neil 413 #its finally here #the big day

[apollo-stims]

neil banging out the tunes stimboard for @edgarallanpoestan

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#my stims #stimboard #neil banging out the tunes #white stims #grey stims #gray stims #music stims #piano stims #instrument stims #rat stims #cat stims

[evelyn-art-05]

had to fix a couple keys on my piano today and luna wanted to come and watch

#piano #mi gata luna #cat #its a Baldwin Hamilton piano btw #from the early 1870s #piano workers/tuners/repairers used to write the date that the piano was tuned #on the lifting beams inside the piano #so people could know when it was last tunes #esrliest one there is from 1875!

[montereybayaquarium]

“Long live the king (crab).”

This dramatic Lion King interpretocean brought to you by pelagic red crabs! When pelagic red crabs are juveniles, they prefer hanging out in the surface waters—everywhere the light touches. As they mature, they transition from a planktonic lifestyle to a benthic one on the seafloor. You could say as they grow up, they tend to settle down.

#monterey bay aquarium #talk about a cliff hanger #i am known by many names but you may call me pelagic red crab #you can tune a piano but can you tuna crab? #hows the form on my squat lobster?

[ettaevie]

It’s been a longstanding headcanon of mine for Piano Man’s real name to be Saburo Moroi, after the famous pianist/composer who was a close friend of the poet Chuuya Nakahara. 

But when I started researching Moroi a bit deeper for the sake of my Flags backstory fic (which I am still writing, shockingly) I learned a new piece of info that added some fuel to my cracked-out fire:

“During his third year at university, Moroi formed a music group “Surya” (the “sun god” in Sanskrit) with his friends. It served as an organization for performing his own works, and by 1931 seven concerts had been given there. His activities with “Surya” brought wider recognition, and it also became a society for young literary men and artists, including Tetsutaro Kawakami, Hideo Kobayashi, Chuya Nakahara, Tatsuji Miyoshi, Hidemi Kon, Shohei O’oka and Kenzo Nakajima, many of whom were later to become renowned literary critics, poets and novelists.”

So not only were Moroi and Chuuya friends and collaborators, they were also part of the same coterie of up-and-coming young men founded by Moroi himself, with a catchy symbolic name and everything.

So now I’m a little more convinced I was on the right track with the whole "Piano Man is Moroi” thing, and my crack theory has evolved into believing that the Flags are a sort of callback to Surya.

Anyway here’s the musical booklet I gleaned this from: https://www.chandos.net/chanimages/Booklets/NA7162.pdf 

P.S. The recording is on Spotify and I highly recommend the last three movements. They are Moroi’s magnum opus and they go HARD

#Also I found a review of the music Moroi and Chuuya wrote together #That noted that Moroi turned one of Chuuya’s more sorrowful poems (Spring and Baby) into a “humorous tune” #which sounds like something Piano Man would do tbh #bsd #bungou stray dogs #the flags #bsd piano man #bsd flags #bsd chuuya #bsd stormbringer

[acecroft]

No, me and Sam, we hadn't talked in... Hell, five years.

#spnedit #supernaturaledit #deanedit #dean winchester #future!dean #jensen ackles #spn #supernatural #spn season 5 #tvedit #mygifs #televisiongifs #useroptional #cinemapix #it was the soft sad piano tunes on a background for me

[consult-sherlockholmes]

Sherlock banging out the tunes on the violin (April 13, 2024)

#sherlock banging out the tunes #neil banging out the tunes #i do know how to play the piano as well #but i dont have a grand piano to take a picture with so violin it is #music #violin #violinist #roleplay #rp #sherlock roleplay #sherlock rp #sherlock #bbc sherlock #sherlock holmes #john watson #sherlock holmes rp #sherlock holmes roleplay #sherlock fandom #cosplay #sherlock cosplay #sherlock holmes cosplay #sherlock bbc cosplay #cosplayer #benedict cumberbatch #meme #tumblr meme #humour #tumblr holidays #april 13 #413

[samarajethwa]

Happy Neil Day!

#neil #neil banging out the tunes #neil the rat #rat #rats #happy 4/13 #april 13 #nakey rat #naked rat #digital art #digital illustration #piano #irridescent #rainbow

[sketchysketchin]

They got me. I’m down

#that season ender huh? #*anvil crushes piano looney tunes noise* #good omens #good omens 2 #good omens fanart #aziraphale #crowley #aziracrow #good omens tv #good omens 2 fanart #illustration #digital art #procreate #comic art #fan art #ipad pro #artists on tumblr

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Hi!! I love this series so much, and as someone who hasn’t really drawn since they were a kid but wants to start as a hobby, do you have any advice for sort of learning to doodle on paper and get better at it? I want to start but I don’t really know how/where

The most important step in getting better at any skill is Persistence and Consistency. Practice and keep practicing! The best way to do that is to keep it fun! Picking a project helps generate ideas (e.g. drawing Pokémon, or characters from a series you like). There are also a ton of monthly prompt lists out there!

I also highly recommend scheduling in a 'drawing/practice' time in your day. For me, I started with 30-60 min before bed (bonus: its a good 'no screentime' activity), and the habit took root there.

There are a lot of 'technical' things to study but find the fun first. At a certain point you will discover you've hit a wall, and have a specific aspect/goal you want to target (colour theory, anatomy, lighting, comic layout). Then it's time to go looking for resources.

Once you have the habit and some goals, go collect some inspiration! Find people who inspire you and study their work!

Another little 'art skill builder' I recommend is the Shrimp Method! Only if you find technical challenges like this fun though (Example of one of my studies below)

#art faqs #TL;DR: Step 1 is 'Just start drawing'. Step 2 is 'Keep on drawing'. Step 3 is 'Hit a wall and start studying only as much as you want' #Step 4: keep it fun and keep drawing. #I think this is where artists who start young have the advantage over adult learners #because adults try to tackle art at the technical point first! #AND THAT JUST FEELS LIKE A CHORE!! #When I got into piano & string instruments I started by just doodling around. Banging out the tunes and experimenting. #The low pressure made it fun! I started lessons because I wanted to learn more! #I personally own quite a few art textbooks! Some are workbook/prompt-based (to help me get started) #and some are actual textbooks! But I certainly didn't start by reading a textbook. #I *highly* recommend Scott McCloud's 'understanding comics' for anyone trying to get into comics #its also a comic in of itself so its a fun read! It breaks down a lot of the key aspects of what's in a comic. #And tbh you don"t HAVE to trace for the shrimp method to work. Just take the time to do a study of a subject! #Good luck on your art journey! B*)

[dreamingpartone]

They lay down in the soft sand at the foot of the dunes, and then they heard the first bird calling.

#will parry #lyra silvertongue #his dark materials #the amber spyglass #hdm fanart #doodles and miscellania #plus pan and kirj are off there in the distance... #happy bench day folks <3 #someone was playing a very bittersweet piano tune somewhere outside my window as i drafted this.....kinda magical timing. anyway! #why did i choose to draw the dunes this year you may ask? #i don't really have a good reason i just felt like it :) #also in all honesty this didn't turn out exactly how i wanted it to look but considering a whole week went by where i thought #i might not get the chance to even START midsummer art i'm gonna take the win at getting it to this point #i miss!! sharing art!! so i'm gonna share it now

[techniccolor]

sing us a song youre the slender man

#^ to the tune of piano man #video.mp4

[sennamaticart]

Happy Neil Bangin' Out the Tunes Day! 🎵

#neil banging out the tunes #rat #cute #piano #april 13 #rat art #meme #digital aritst #digital drawing #digital painting #art tag #i love this guy hes my fav #had to draw him ASAP when i realized what today is

[littlebluebarista]

I don't know if anyone remembers the American Girl honeybees game, but for a simple flash game it had a soundtrack way above its pay grade. I couldn't find the sheet music for the piano piece so I transcribed it myself from an old video of the game. I might write it down one day once I learn how to write music on paper.

#american girl #kirsten larson #flash games #ft. my very old out of tune piano

[manybackflips]

The Strive storyline should’ve ended with Happy Chaos being crushed looney-toons style with a comically placed piano that falls from the sky with a loud whistling noise. This would of course, leave a Happy Chaos shaped hole in the ground, after two seconds of silence, his hand would raise out of the hole and he’d shoot his gun, out of which a white flag would pop out with confetti.

The scene would ultimately end with a pan over close-up of the main cast looking bemused at the camera as a the screen gets narrowed into a small black circle, out of which Chaos pops out to shoot the viewer in the face, but not before he says a witty quip that would ultimately not make sense.

#ggst #guilty gear #guilty gear strive #happy chaos ggst #happy chaos #looney tunes #piano falling from the sky #witty quips and shooting people