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Dan Schmidt

@dfan.bsky.social

996 followers 371 following 380 posts

Co-creator of Ultima Underworld, Guitar Hero, Rock Band, et al. Lead singer & songwriter of Honest Bob and the Factory-to-Dealer-Incentives. These days I mostly play the piano and Go.

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Dan Schmidt @dfan.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Cleanest to me:

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Dan Schmidt @dfan.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

I just had some fun times reading through a score from 1817 where the dots in dotted notes don't come until after the original note length runs out. I had no idea this was a thing.

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Dan Schmidt @dfan.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

William Bolcom straight-up trolling me with an A♭♭ dominant seventh chord (the key signature at this point is Oops! All Flats)

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Dan Schmidt @dfan.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Also a big fan of this one

Movie poster of The Taking of Pelham One Two Three showing chaos on a subway

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Dan Schmidt @dfan.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

The Russian edition is a little better:

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Dan Schmidt @dfan.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

A sign that you're playing too much Blue Prince: you get excited when you see this while walking down the street

A pile of dirt on the sidewalk that looks like a "dig spot" in the video game Blue Prince

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Dan Schmidt @dfan.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Attention all musicians: the chance that I will buy your record goes up by around a factor of 10 if an excerpt of its sheet music is on the album cover.

Album cover of Defiant Life by Vijay Iyer and Wadada Leo Smith

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Dan Schmidt @dfan.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Love to sight-read music in A# minor

Piano sheet music with a key signature of seven sharps

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Dan Schmidt @dfan.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

I went to look up the original music to Jingle Bells to see if it had a secondary dominant under "one-horse open" and boy was it not what I expected. Full score at drive.google.com/file/d/12gOf...

Original sheet music to the chorus of Jingle Bells

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Dan Schmidt @dfan.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Implementing Whole-History Rating to measure long-term performance in an online Go league

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Dan Schmidt @dfan.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

This one was working for me

A two-page spread of Mircea Cărtărescu's Solenoid with "help!" repeated hundreds of times

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Dan Schmidt @dfan.bsky.social · 31/10/2024

As a kid I had that Beethoven LP set and listened to it over and over and over along with a book containing all the miniature scores (archive.org/details/nine...). It probably influenced my musical development more than any other single thing.

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Dan Schmidt @dfan.bsky.social · 08/10/2024

Also apparently I'm partially responsible for Black Midi?

Wikipedia text: "Greep first took interest in the guitar when he was given the video game Guitar Hero for his seventh birthday".

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Dan Schmidt @dfan.bsky.social · 02/09/2024

You read Pynchon enough, you start writing tunes to all the songs 🚀

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Dan Schmidt @dfan.bsky.social · 31/08/2024

The Bantam mass market paperback served me well for my first few reads. Pretty good value for $5.95! #gr 🚀

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Dan Schmidt @dfan.bsky.social · 05/10/2023

The House of Ten Dumb Guys in Somerville MA, 30 years later. It still looks about the same from the outside.

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