Silver Wind

Silver wind has 4 different components, not necessarily sequentially ordered.

'Ion' - Sense of balance, perspective and place in your surroundings.
A general way to increase to train 'Ion' is to blindfold yourself. Ion could also be described as using every sense but sight in order to paint a picture of your environment. Most people will find that as they can accurately judge small distances that are within arms reach, they will be able to better judge long distances.
'Rise' - Sense of change in the surroundings
Probably the most applicable to any kind of fighting, 'Rise' is how easily an accurately one can sense his surroundings change. Rise is essentially how often/easily your sense of "Ion" is altered, in other words, your sensitivity of 'Ion'. The only way I know of training a sense of 'Rise' is to go out on the beach on a dark night and to brace for impact against waves. This allows you to have a fairly constant change in "Ion", and also eliminates the interference of a human guessing what another human will do.
'Air' - Control and sense of timing.
Jumping rope helps train this one. Other things that might help include training on things that spin, and also hitting objects in time to a variable beat, somewhere along the lines of 60-200bpm.
'Verge' - Control of limits, self imposed and outer
Try this one last.

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My best friend took a week's
Vacation to forget her
His girl took a weeks's worth of
Valium and slept
And now he's guilt stricken sobbing with his
Head on the floor
Thinks about her now and how he never really
Wept he says

I can't be held responsible
She was touching her face
I won't be held responsible
She fell in love in the first place

For the life of me I cannot remember
What made us think that we were wise and
We'd never compromise
For the life of me I cannot believe
We'd ever die for these sins
We were merely freshmen

We've tried to wash our hands of all this
We never talk of our lacking relationships
And how we're guilt stricken sobbing with our
Heads on the floor
We fell through the ice when we tried not to
Slip, we'd say

I can't be held responsible
She was touching her face
And I won't be held responsible
She fell in love in the first place

For the life of me I cannot remember
What made us think that we were wise and
We'd never compromise
For the life of me I cannot believe
We'd ever die for these sins
We were merely freshmen

Apocalypse Now D#14

Sifting through half memories, half truths, full thoughts. The more of my conscious domain I seek to conquer, the deeper the depths sink, the farther the heavens reach, the larger the circuits grow. I try to live my life in the most stress free way possible, never lying or deceiving, never believing without some proof. Yet I must have been confused the day I let those evils in my brain, those demons that are at my sides and back. Though I walk forward on the righteous path, my footsteps are dogged by my own wicked pursuits. There is no explanation I can give to justify my thoughts, the inner ethers that are vaporized in the hours of waking. Even in the most simple and stress less life I seek to lead, I am still being consumed by what I must truly wish for. My dreams, a blue sphere at the peak of all efforts, hands grabbing me, clawing my face, biting my heels, nails digging into skin, drawing blood and seeping corruption all drag me downwards, earthwards, hellwards. Sometimes faith is a scream of desperation, an emotion, an demand of my soul that bids me onwards, tearing back at the wickedness that I am of, deny, and am fighting against. I scream, louder than the shouts of my evils, louder than the wailing of temptation "turn back and lay at ease". Shatterstar, a sign of my own corruption, yet a fragment of my will. The rusted sword of the word. Should my words break upon the backs of my enemies, I still charge headfirst into the gaping mouths of those who wish to consume me. With broken blade and failing armor, simply with force of will I will charge. I don't even feel worthy, for with every word for the righteous I have said dozens for the sinner. I can't keep walking the path of my fallen forefathers, I must strive and diverge from the familiar, in only such a way can I reach for my goal.

As the prophets shed the light on what's to come

Man's becoming more corrupt now, godless, wicked, and cruel
The soulless man stood silenced, Mary's words rang so true
Chastisement worse than the flood, spread the word, it's all through, Voice your prophecy, shed us some light
Feel sorrow for mankind's chance to survive
Swallowed lies and swam in our own tears
A stab in the dark but it wounded our will
We've grown into the numbers six hundred sixty six
War breaks, a sign of the end, eternally expelled
Look to the sky for knowledge, the stars align tonight
Eclipse and heaven shall fall
Now I know I've seen it all in my life of misery
Dust the apple off, savor each bite
And deep inside you know Adam was right
lust and power, indulgence, no fear
Left with his sins, how does this end?
As the prophets shed the light on what's to come the crowds did gather, Your time is precious, they explained, no time to worry, messiahs coming

Madness

"Sibelius software recommends that you use sibelius 4.0 or earlier in windows Vista." This quote is quite misleading, for two reasons, the first of which is the assumption that sibelius software has actually written vista compatible code that will run on vista. This is simply not the case. I use sibelius 1.4 and 3.0 in vista, and both of these programs run without a hitch. The second assumption is that sibelius 4.0 and up will actually run well in vista. In fact, the exact opposite is true! Sibelius 1.4 runs great, sibelius 3 runs slower than sibelius 1.4, Sibelius 4 runs as fast as 1.4, but crashes when it is closed, sibelius 5.0 crashes whenever scores are opened or saved, sibelius 5.1 crashes right after you click on the icon (you dont even get a splash screen, the only indication that sibelius 5.1 has even started is the windows error message from it). What sibelius should have written on their website is that you should use the Internet way back machine and dig out the earliest version of sibelius that you can find, the earlier the better it seems. Some might argue, why bother switching? Well, Sibelius 5 has a feature called VST which enables it to use midi sets independent of a Midi thru device (such as Midi maple). unfortuneatly, in keeping with the theme of making progressively worse versions of sibelius, in sibelius 5, all of the VST instruments have been switched around. Your double bass marcato patch now plays in the violas. Those flutter trombones you found in EWQLSO? Those have been placed in the percussion section. *goes back to using Sibelius 1.4...

What I think of Music Theory

saxuallyAPeasing: today we were collectively writing a 4-part harmony

saxuallyAPeasing: and we ran into a situation where we couldn't do anything without using parallel 5ths/8ths or having a melodic augmented 2nd

ShatterstarWing: hahahah

saxuallyAPeasing: so I suggested that we use an appogitura (instead of F to G#, F to A to G#)

saxuallyAPeasing: he said "You are a very intelligent person, we will get to your intelligence in just a second..."

ShatterstarWing: theory lesson #1, first, make up words, second, make up things to do them with

ShatterstarWing: so what was your assignment

ShatterstarWing: resolving the stab?

saxuallyAPeasing: appogituras exist you know

ShatterstarWing: not in this dimension

ShatterstarWing: yet

ShatterstarWing: and when they appear i shall kill them

saxuallyAPeasing: your lack of faith is disturbing