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Don't watch youtube?

Want educational content? Read a book or a technical blog post or documentation.

Want entertainment? Read a book or watch a movie or TV show.

I've never found anything that great about YouTube.

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30 years of playing the piano and listening to all kinds of music and harmony never really clicked with me even after studying music theory. But watching YouTube videos made an instant impact.

YouTube is a distracting mess full of doom scroll bait but if you have never found anything useful on YouTube, you haven't been looking very hard.

Would you mind sharing the videos that helped music click? Thank you!

Open Studio (OpenStudioJazz) and Nahre Sol I like. Charles Cornell gets an honourable mention.

Watching Nahre Sol break down Chopin's E flat Nocturne (Op9#2) gave me a penny drop moment. I have often had trouble memorizing the left hand for that piece even after writing out the harmonies but seeing her play out the progression as flat chords led me to realise I can change the pattern and then play the left hand as a very quick broken chord to hear the harmonic progression while also cementing in the muscle memory a lot more effectively.

Those are alternatives for youtube _consumers_ but none of those are replacements for _producers_ on youtube.

I want edutainment. Nowhere has anywhere close to the level of content as YouTube when it comes to that.

> a movie or TV show

Any movie or TV show recommendations from the past 10 years that is actually enjoyable?

I am pretty much done with movies. I don't even remember the last one I really enjoyed. Sunshine, Interstellar, Hateful Eight, Once Upon a time in Hollywood... Nothing notable in the past 5 years though.

TV shows? Most require a subscription, which I am not willing to do for just a show or two.

just over the 10 year mark, but i enjoyed "east side sushi". nice feel-good movie.

I've enjoyed quite a few movies from the past 5 years, but I don't know what you like, so who knows.

Baby Assassins - japanese movie about two teenage girls who are assassins. Very weird and funny movie and the fight choreography I found fascinating. I can only describe as "floppy".

Tetris - this was on Apple TV. A fictionalized retelling of the story of getting Tetris out of the USSR and licensed to distribute in the US.

Weird: The Al Yankovic Story - A music biopic of Weird Al Yankovic, in true Weird Al style

Nobody - action / revenge flick with Bob Odenkirk

I could go on. No need to limit yourself to the past 5 years though. Surely you haven't seen every movie from before 2020?

Lots of great shows too, and you don't need any subscriptions on the high seas...

Baby Assassins sounds interesting, I see there’s a few movies with that name from the past few years, maybe some are sequels I’m not sure. Is the one you’re talking about from 2021 with director Yugo Sakamoto?

That’s the one

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt15028452/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk

There is a sequel, but I haven’t watched it yet

Thanks!

I am not sure why this is actually downvoted. I was a YouTube premium subscriber, but then they started with their shenanigans and I decided to shift my attention to other things. It is not like I cannot go there once in a while to check on a particular video, but it is not for entertainment anymore.

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