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Nick Shea @shdocea.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

One more for good measure.

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Nick Shea @shdocea.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

The generic Asian-woman bot-follow stream has been strong lately.

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Nick Shea @shdocea.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

I know it’s not at all cool by music snob standards, but I love a large amount of Mark Ronson’s arrangements. The trumpet solo in “Oh My God” is remarkable bc of the way it keeps up the energy. And I like the uptempo version of Valarie way more.

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Nick Shea @shdocea.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Anyone got an extra $4k lying around? Asking for a friend.

A license agreement stating I would have to pay 4097.60 USD to publish my article as open access.

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Nick Shea @shdocea.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

In non-doomer news, my mom is in town so that means cocktails at a fancy train-themed bar w/my hot wife.

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Nick Shea @shdocea.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

😬😬😬 next issue of JMTP look out

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Overview
[O. 1] The Practice of Popular Music: Understanding Harmony, Rhythm, Melody and Form in Commercial Songwriting (2025) by author Trevor de Clercq is an
unprecedented departure from contemporary approaches to teaching music theory.
Grounded on more than a decade's worth of experience teaching commercial music industry majors at Middle Tennessee State University, its 475 pages (roughly 8.5 x 11) interleave written theory and aural skills activities across a four-semester sequence that hits all the traditional theory mainstays - fundamentals, meter types, diatonic

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Nick Shea @shdocea.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

I'm sorry, what. Imagining Bach jamming out with Rammstein.

A screenshot of a Terminal. The second line says:
"Unfitted track tuned differently or non guitar icon) : J. Sebastian Bach - Vocals"

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Nick Shea @shdocea.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

Reminds me of the first line of this one. I have a small collection of long dependent clauses ha

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Nick Shea @shdocea.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

It’s more junk for your junk drawer but I bought a small laptop screwdriver kit for these very situations. Better than buying a new one imo!

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Nick Shea @shdocea.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

A bit like this. All the 6 chords have a shell voicing.

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Nick Shea @shdocea.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

The opposite of this guy.

A Halloween costume titled “Conservative Guy Scared of Cities.” The image features a white man with a beard in jeans and a tee shirt stereotypical of those obsessed with military ethos.

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Nick Shea @shdocea.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Intersection of music people and Buffy fans please explain.

Oz from Buffy saying, “Well, the E-flat, it's, it'sdoable, butthat diminished ninth, y'know, it's a man'schord.
Now, you could lose a finger.”

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Nick Shea @shdocea.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Last year I got a Steam Deck and began emulating Ultra Sun/Moon a few months ago. It's been great. The regional variants are awesome, models look great in 3D. Well, as of yesterday, I completed the Dex! Focusing on collecting instead of battling has been weirdly satisfying.

A screenshot of a 3DS game. On the left is a TrainerID and on the right is a stamp that says "You registered all Pokémon in the Alola region!"

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Nick Shea @shdocea.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

Haven’t made real music since 2020, mostly because my double bass is still in Missouri. Decided to join summer choir!

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Nick Shea @shdocea.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

It was hot, but the fam did it for democracy.

Woman smiling standing in front of a crowd of protesters.

A kid in a stroller with a sign that says “TODDLERS FOR EMPATHY.”

A white guy with a ball cap on and a sticker with the words “TRUMP” crossed out.

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Nick Shea @shdocea.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Gotta say they do look pretty sharp though.

Two pairs of rectangles with latticed internal text arranged similarly to a coordinate grid. The top rectangles' text features an ordered pair of coordinates. The bottom rectangles' text features pitch names. Lines connect the top and bottom rectangles to show how the coordinates and pitches map onto one another.

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Nick Shea @shdocea.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

The workplace humor version of this gem

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Nick Shea @shdocea.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Pumped to participate in GPU Day!

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Nick Shea @shdocea.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

I consider this a huge win considering I was spending close to 3 hours a day doomscrolling Reddit and Bsky about a month ago.

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Nick Shea @shdocea.bsky.social · 17/10/2024

Relative: “Can you take a recording and make sheet music for it?” As in, is this something people can do? Me: “Yeah, I’d be happy to knock that out for you.” He just dug up the lyrics (1st pic) with chords after I transcribed from his phone recording (2nd). Differences are interesting.

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Nick Shea @shdocea.bsky.social · 15/10/2024

This is surely why I’m sick btw. He’s teething and I’m designated snot sucker.

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Nick Shea @shdocea.bsky.social · 15/08/2024

These aren’t final so I guess there’s no harm in posting them 👀. I can now pump these out in a day instead of weeks thanks to the fine folks who run the Sol Supercomputer.

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Nick Shea @shdocea.bsky.social · 27/07/2024

Sure, here’s a preview. They’re based on Tim Koozin’s fret-interval-types. I’ll have the corpus on my GitHub once the paper is published. Right now it’s still pretty messy. But they’re just top-rated Guitar Pro files I scraped from Ultimate Guitar and processed in Humdrum and R

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Nick Shea @shdocea.bsky.social · 26/07/2024

Sometimes the data type you throw into the model isn’t all that interesting. Fingerboard shapes reduced like a pc set for metal (5 states) and folk (4 states) songs.

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Nick Shea @shdocea.bsky.social · 20/10/2023

Tournament day! Guess who’s in the championships this skeeson?

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Nick Shea @shdocea.bsky.social · 30/09/2023

Ah good question! Two machines, so two teams play at once alternating throws. But then each game is 9 throws and team members rotate every 3 throws. So I throw 3 frames at least every other game on our team of 5.

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Nick Shea @shdocea.bsky.social · 29/09/2023

(Screen grab from the ACTOR Instagram page.) In this paper we adopt my demographic encoding model to establish equitable sampling strategies, coined the Anti-Discriminatory Alignment System (ADAS), for future corpus work. (Also I’m a full-fledged ACTOR member now so my name should be bolded. 😉)

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Nick Shea @shdocea.bsky.social · 26/09/2023

Going on my fourth year, yet sometimes I’ll walk past my office placard and think “It is so cool I get to do this for a living.”

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Nick Shea @shdocea.bsky.social · 25/09/2023

Automator is working well though.

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Nick Shea @shdocea.bsky.social · 23/09/2023

Fridays are tough because typically they’re drinks + gaming night. This zero-proof whiskey is actually pretty decent. Has that hit of spice you’d want from the hard stuff.

Two bottles and a glass full of ice cubes.

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Nick Shea @shdocea.bsky.social · 22/09/2023

Skeeball night! Day 4 #nstae Won the first game, lost a very tight second game. Had a Diet Coke which might have been a mistake caffeine-wise.

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Nick Shea @shdocea.bsky.social · 20/09/2023

For the next month I’ll be posting about doing The Alcohol Experiment. Basically I spend a few nights a week drinking beer and playing video games when I know I could be doing something better with my time. Toward mindfulness, I’m giving it up for 30 days. (Block #nstae if you’d rather opt out.)

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Nick Shea @shdocea.bsky.social · 09/09/2023

Working on cross-checking form for the Timbre in Popular Song corpus, through McGill ACTOR Project. It’s so tedious, and the initial encodings weren’t always great, BUT getting to listen to a ton of new-to-me hip hop songs is just the best.

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Nick Shea @shdocea.bsky.social · 03/09/2023

Been here 3 years, but first time going to the Grand Canyon in more than 10.

A white man wearing a blue shirt and a canvas bag on his back standing in front of the Grand Canyon.

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Nick Shea @shdocea.bsky.social · 02/09/2023

Enjoy this photo of ethnomusicologist colleague Dave Fossum helping me work out the kinks in my new pilot study.

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Nick Shea @shdocea.bsky.social · 01/09/2023

Not the intro, but drum solo of life! The watermelon color on the drums kills me bc Walter Melon.

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Nick Shea @shdocea.bsky.social · 01/09/2023

Third place! Inconskeevable are Toilet Bowl champs two seasons in a row! Unbelievably scored a 100 as a tie-breaker, get this, throwing between my legs!

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Nick Shea @shdocea.bsky.social · 01/09/2023

Kicked to the third place bracket. Competing for the golden prize on the left!

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