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Noticed a few days ago, when playing piano, that my pedal technique was very poor . However it's not something that I've paid much attention to. But when I tinkered around with the pedal a bit, I found out that pedaling is way more nuanced than I thought. I used to only do the "switch pedal before new chord" and also sometimes add pedal to a bass note. But I now found out that it's a lot more nuanced and that those 2 techniques alone doesn't always work. In arpeggios, for example, I find that switching around the last note of an arpeggio is better than switching just before the new arpeggio. Or gradually releasing the pedal is sometimes better. And sometimes you can hold it down for longer, and only switch sometimes to clear the sound a bit. So a lot more nuanced than I learned. A bit sad noticing that my pedal technique was poor, but I guess that's something to work on and improve.

Lol, it's actually about sauna bathing! I also love how it actually was a finnish-swedish group participating. But the group was the only one who sang in swedish! ^^ (all the other songs were sung in english)

My (sort of) favorite won the Swedish qualifier for European song contest! It was a pretty funny song! The 2 songs that were in the lead was this one and the other was sort of a generic pop song. And my favorite won! I really like when more funny or interesting song wins Eurovision (although it happens very rarely), makes the contest more amusing and fun to watch! Also the other song (which came second) was a preformed by a celebrity named Måns Zelmerlöw. And it also makes me happy that he didn't win, as celebrities sometimes almost have a "free pass" to win, just because they're famous.

So pretty happy.

Here's the song in case you want to watch:

Really been on a weight-loss journey this winter! I successfully lost 10 kg from around october to now! Weighting 91kg in october and around 80 now. My main form of losing weight was really long walks (and also cutting down food/snacks as much as I could). Many days I walked around 10 km (around 6.2 miles), which was one of the best ways I found to consistently lose weight.

I also studied a bit more how many calories various foods contain, and tried cutting down on chocolate (which has been my more or less favorite candy), and also limited my consumption of nuts (which I thought was a healthier alternative to chocolate, lol) and opted for lower calorie/sugarfree candy and soda. Also tried taking smaller portions of meals. And it did in fact work as I lost around 10 kg. I kind of like the long walk way of losing kg, as it doesn't tires you that much, so you can just walk as long as you feel like pretty much. The only drawback is that it takes a lot of time, and can be quite boring... I am quite happy that I lost 10 kg, but I do feel a bit skinny, lol. But the health benefits do make up for it. I do think in hindsight that it might be better if I'd do more resistance training/building muscles instead of only opting to lose weight. That way I would have gained more muscles, which would be a better result, rather than just lose fat. But it doesn't matter that much, as I'm now focusing more on building muscles.

 I'll also used some of the knowledge I've gained, when studying various food amount of calories and other nutrients. I use to a very shallow knowledge of it, think that some foods are "healthy" and good and others are "unhealthy" and bad. And I've learned that it's a lot more nuanced than that and a lot of the things I thought were just wrong. For example, used to think that"chocolate is better than candy", well... depends, but probably no. And switching to nuts from chocolate is better cause nuts are "healthy" and chocolate is "unhealthy", well... didn't really help anything. And it's also interesting how you've gotten the idea that all "snacks" are the same (and bad). Like candy, chocolate and ice cream are all the same and bad. Which, well, the're all more or less bad, but Ice cream for example has around half the amount of calories as chocolate and also less sugar. So it's really not all the same. And also how all "healthy" foods are just good. Which also isn't true since nuts for example have very high amount of calories (so it should be consumed in moderation). So, I've gotten a more nuanced and better view of things, which I'll use in order to stay more healthy.

Tried a bit gumroad (Made a page on it). And I really like it. I like that it is geared towards creators. And I also like how you can have lots of options, if you want to sell or if you want a "pay what you want" and some customizable. Pretty neat. 

Something I've noticed after looking at the presidential election, is how sort of, let's say, divided the US is politically between city and countryside. It's a lot of blue dots and spots where the cities are while the countryside is very much more red.

It is a bit similar here in Sweden. But it is actually the opposite, the cities are (and are the only parts which are) blue (bourgoiose, right-wing) and the countryside is red (socialist, left-wing).

Noticed an error in Midna's Theme from Zelda: Twilight princess. I thought it sounded a bit weird when I played it and it is a bit of an error.

Last measure. the 3 last melody notes should be an octave lower.

Finished playing Wild Arms 2! Pretty good game. A bit darker than some of the other entries I've played from the series. But still pretty good game

Oh boy! Have kind of done some crazy thing lately. I've (sort of) learned La campanella by Franz Liszt. Yep. Back in the days like 2013 or so, I actually bought the sheet music. And then tried it a bit. But quickly ditched it as it was just too much. It was still very tough now, I mean the sheet music is a headache. But got through it. First I thought it was a bit as sort of fun thing, that I wouldn't actually be able to play it completely (and still not sure). But sometimes I actually play (part of it) quite well. So maybe. But y, the piece is still very tough, by far the hardest piece I've attempted. And getting through it is in itself very very tough! Feels good also to play more chill piece, some Beethoven and some Chopin.

Y saw this. I guess instead of mus-files we could use xml files. Maybe?

Not really an error but I noticed that some of the Final fantasy 1 sheets are not from the original NES sountrack, but looks more to be from the remakes. Some sheets I've noticed this are Chaos temple, Ocean Shrine and Matoya's Cave.

Bought an ABBA sheet music book, which looks really good and accurate! Yay

(Can be hard finding good sheet music for pop songs)

I've been wanting to play some pop songs on piano, and noticed some annoying problem. Many of the sheet music for pop songs can be quite different from the original. Most notably different key. Which is really really annoying when you want to preform the song in the same key. This lead me to more careful and when choosing sheet music. So y, since there is no urtext when it comes to pop music, you have to be more selective when choosing sheet music.

(tried tapping again) Hmm, maybe you're right actually.

I was looking at the mega man 2 song Wily stage 1. And I think the metronome mark is too fast. I listened to it and it sounds more like q=160 or maybe somewhat higher, and not 180.