>about to impulse buy a violin because I've listened to Victoria 2 OST way too many times
Should you? What are other instruments you should learn to play if you want to play Paradox games OST?
>about to impulse buy a violin because I've listened to Victoria 2 OST way too many times
There are worse things you could buy. Don't expect to sound any good right away though.
Violin is nice.
Yeah
Back when Paradox games used to have good OSTs, unlike CK3 with that 'ambient' shit.
What do you mean ambient shit
The tracklist for Vicky2 is way too short for a game like this.
That's true, but there's just enough tracks that it never feels too repetitive, and since every track is good I enjoy playing it regardless.
it's so short it feels like a playlist, you start to feel some tracks almost always follow another. that x track plays after y like it's programmed that way
I played violin ten years when I was young. It's fun, but it takes a LOT of effort to not sound like you're strangling cats at times. It's an instrument where you quite quickly learn intonation and pitch though, and it fits on both ends of the spectrum of hick to toff. I would strongly recommend lessons, but even without them, it's fun to just mess around with.
Not Paradox, but I learned the harmonica after playing a lot of different railroad games that used it.
>harmonica
It is fun? I always wanted to get my hands on one but I don't know which one to start.
I think it's fun, especially since you can have one in your back pocket at all times, and there is a lot more to it than what you see at first glance. I would recommend starting with a C harmonica, the layout works well with most songs I've played. Unless you know how to bend notes, the lower notes can be a bit off (you are missing the lower F and A), but most every song will work since all other bend notes are flats, and in more traditional songs you aren't using too many flats. Basically every other layout I know has a lot of flats and sharps mixed in on the main blow and draw.
are harmonicas safe how do you clean them can they get dirty what if you breathe in dirty air when you breathe in to play notes
>worring about dirty air
>but I learned the harmonica after playing a lot of different railroad games that used it.
Now I want to start Railroad Tycoon 3 again
>Railroad Tycoon 3
Never played it.
I just played 2 since it was the only one that I ever managed to buy. Never had any stores that stocked many PC games locally, so I got most of them either through my dad when he traveled abroad, or through friends where we'd exchange pirated copies of whatever we could get our hands on. I've in later years heard that 2 was worse than 3, but I've not gone back to try it.
Also looking back at it, a part of my interest in the harmonica was probably Pokemon Colosseum, since that had some surprisingly good solo harmonica tracks.
I don't exactly know what you are asking; "dirty air"? Are you one of the world's last miasma-ists or something? Basically any harmonica that's more than a toy has disassembly screws so that you can get to the reeds. I haven't heard a consensus on how often you should clean a harmonica, but around every three months if you are using it often is what I've gone with. Just take it apart and gently clean with a rag and rubbing alcohol, you don't want to bend the reeds. If you keep to that routine, the air passing through the harmonica shouldn't be any much worse than what you are already breathing.
If you do bend the reeds while cleaning though, replacement parts aren't expensive, even when compared to how cheap good harmonicas are. It's not like on my violin, where if the sound bar (don't know the english name) breaks, I'd be better off buying a new violin than having that part replaced.
>Are you one of the world's last miasma-ists or something?
Had me in tears with that
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All 2 of the songs are pur kino. It'd be nice if there were more tracks.
> thought the Good Old Rebel arrangement was some kind of a Chinese march until i saw the track name
is that you?
no, but it's pretty funny
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The Planets by Holst is perfect for Victoria II or a Great War HOI mod.
Also the Medal of Honor original and Frontline soundtracks are the best for when playing HOI(3).
Jupiter, Bringer of Jollity is enough to bring a grown man to tears, and accentuates any adventures you're having while colonizing Africa or the Orient.
takes too long to learn
Well if you buy a violin you could join a Yellowcard tribute band so the money would be worth it in the end
>Yellowcard
What do they play?
They're a pop-punk band from the mid-2000s that had a violin player for some reason. You can hear the violin the best in the chorus of this song:
Excellent song anon, I also listened to the whole album too. Mind if I ask you, do you know of related bands? What strategy games do you play?
>What strategy games do you play?
Barely any, I mostly just play Vic2, I basically stumbled into this board this morning since I was bored of /vr/ and wanted to see what others were up to.
It's funny you mention Vic 2 because I love the music but I've never played the game, seems too complicated and scary lol
What games do you usually play then?
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a dilator
Obsessed
Violin cute.
Yeah
Learning to play Johann Waltz must be nice.
I want to learn that too!
I dance with my infant daughter to Johann's Waltz.
That's pretty cute
based johan's waltz appreciator
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Just pirate it lol not like paradox is gonna update it
you wouldn't pirate a violin
Make a violin yourself.
Learn piano instead, that way you can learn to play most any piece of music you come across
I am learning piano because of paradox tracks, especially stellaris. But cant find their tracks on youtube anyway
homie literally all of Stellaris tracks are available online
Not the key notes falling for piano, I cant read music
just learn to read music, anon, it's not hard at all
Yeah, especially on piano, since the white keys are your normal notes, and the black ones are sharp or flat. It's just thinking of the note line as your keys arranged vertically, and keeping an eye out for sharps (#) where you are to play the black key to the right of the regular note, and flats (b), where you play the black key to the left.
Not exactly the same but hearing this ost after so many plays made me get a harmonica.
son of a b***h