Hi guys, this is Jason Zach from Nathaniel School of Music. In this lesson, it's going to be a year training tutorial to identify all the elements of music, not just what we think is year training or what an app generally tells us is year training. We try to identify pretty much all the properties of music in this lesson. And hopefully in this lesson, it's a roadmap for you to start your journey or carry on your journey in a more efficient way, perhaps, or if you already know songs or learn songs by year, hopefully you can get a bit more efficient by watching this particular lesson, right? So, first off, what is year training? Year training, I usually tend to call it mind training because it's to make things efficient for what you listen to and to also use theory, by the way, to get, ultimately, there is a song out there, the song has chords, the song has a melody, the song has rhythm. Your year is not the only tool to decipher information. Your year will hear stuff, but then your mind has to also know what it heard. Did you hear a specific chord degree? Did you hear a specific subdivision of the beat? Or did you hear a specific interval of a specific scale? So, in a sense, year training is not just about hearing a B-flat and saying, oh, it's B-flat, which some people call as perfect pitch, right? So, year training goes hand in hand with music theory. Music theory will give you the final answer. Your years will just say, okay, I heard something, I heard a chord, I heard this kind of chord, but what is the chord? Your year may still know, but that's always because of theory. So, that's the first point I wanted to make very clear, year training and theory go hand in hand. So, first of all, what are the myths of year training? The general myths of year training, what people think is year training is, how do I get perfect pitch? So, perfect pitch, first of all, I think people get only at a very, very young age, usually kids under the age of 10. My argument is, if someone were to teach me colors right now, this is purple, this is pink, blue, and I'd never learned that in my life, I think it would be very tricky as an adult or even someone who's above the age of 10 or 12. So, by that analogy, I don't think people will get perfect pitch, like get to know what is B-flat, what is G or what is A-flat, until they've used it and worked with it from the childhood. And also, even if you've passed your childhood years, the only way you can get perfect pitch or even know pitches is to use the pitches with musicians regularly in studio environments, in jam rooms, and at concerts, because you're speaking the lingo, you're telling each other, you're playing the wrong note, it's not B-flat, instead go and play a C instead. So, until you speak the language, you're not going to gain the knowledge of perfect pitch. So, this perfect pitch concept will again be a combination of the theory, you know, because you have to identify that note by a certain name based on a scale and so on and so forth. And also, perfect pitch may not be useful in musical cultures like the country I am part of, India, where everything is relative. So, if I give you a root, in this case, it's E-flat, but in India, you could just call it a Sa. So, Sa, and with respect to this Sa, we have a concept called relative pitch or in India, we say, these are the swaras based on a root, in this case, E-flat. So, you have different intervals, for example, Sa-pa, which is the perfect fifth, which is that. Now, how do you know it's actually the B-flat with respect to E-flat? Well, that's theory, isn't it? Your ears had nothing to do with that answer. So, don't think that ear training is, I need to know what's B-flat, I need to know what is F-sharp. I don't think even I know that to be completely honest, even I feel that I go by relative pitch, and when I have a very heated musical session or if I'm teaching for many hours or if I'm gigging or jamming or especially recording, we talk and we hear these pitches very often. So, then I kind of get to know that, oh yeah, you played a B-flat major or go to a G-mine and I can sing it or if someone else plays it, I know. But that's because of experience and exposure to the elements over that session. And you have that real-time recall because it just happened, you know, you've been with music for so long over the session or over the day. So, that's generally one myth of ear training, perfect pitch. The other thing is scales and chords. Don't just think that I have to know notes. No, you have to know scales. You have to identify a class or a group of notes. So, in other words, what I'm trying to say is don't listen to songs and go by a point-by-point analysis. In other words, G, B-flat, E-flat, no, you should listen to it in a cluster, maybe and you'll identify a scale which is built around those four notes and it's a lot easier on the brain, right? And ear training, what we need to realize about ear training is we think ear training is just for pitch. Can you tell me the scale of the song by ear instantly? Or, you know, we have these certain ideas which are conveyed over numerous YouTube videos, but let's not forget rhythm. Rhythm is something you have to hear. That is the foundation of everything. So, if you don't know your time, if you don't know your pulse, if you don't know how to count, if you don't know how to move with the song playing, which you've chosen to play, you're not really going to get anywhere. And then we rely on things like apps, which I think for this particular topic, ear training, I think apps generally suck. You should not be using apps. People before the era of apps, which is about just about a decade before where we are now, have been very successfully training their ears each and every day, including people maybe from a century ago or 300 years ago. I'm sure they figured out ways without apps. We don't need them. So, while I'm on the topic of not forgetting stuff, it'll be awesome if you guys can hit that subscribe button if you've forgotten to and turn on that bell icon for regular notifications and give the video a like. If you like the lesson, of course, leave us a comment with stuff you'd like to learn in the future and share the video with your musician friends. Now, back to the lesson. So, let's first look at the three pillars of music. The three pillars of music are the melody. When you hear a song, it's what you remember out of the song generally. Now, melody can usually be a higher melody sung by a singer or played by a violin or it could even be a riff played by a low end instrument like a bass guitar, for instance. And a normal melody could be something sung by a vocalist. Of course, even played on the right hand of the piano. So, that's what you're looking at. Melody, what you sing to, rhythm is how you move and it's that element of music or the pillar of music which makes people move. And harmony is the emotion creator. Harmony is also your chords, your chord progression. So, you need to feel that and most of the ways in which we hear the elements of music are how our audience will feel those elements. So, you should also feel the elements before trying to detect them and hear them. For example, if you have to know that a chord is E flat minor major 7th, you know. You should first feel the fact that it's a, you know, it's, I would say, I will call that a James Bond chord which is maybe used in that song or that movie theme score or that ad jingle or something. Hey, I heard it there or maybe I hear this chord.  That's the oh darling chord. You identify it in some way or maybe this chord. What you could call the Jimi Hendrix chord. He uses that in a lot of his songs. You could even call the chord Jimi even though it's a 7 sharp 9 as we learn in the theory. So, the three pillars of music are very important to be observant of when you're getting into the process of year training, rhythm, melody and harmony. Now, the next chapter in this tutorial would be the difference between macro and micro year training. So, macro, if you look at it from each of the pillars which I talked about, let's say from the point of view of rhythm, macro rhythmic sensibilities would be to figure out the general tempo of the song to move to the pulse of the song, 1, 2, 3, 4, to know the time signature of the song. Is it 3 by 4? Is it 4 by 4? Is it 7 by 8? Is it going with your head in the first place or is it a by 8 or by 16 and so on and so forth? Then what is the time feel of the song? Time feel is just a word I kind of use. Time feel in the sense how the beats are being divided. Is it being divided into two parts? Is it being divided into three parts? Triplets is being divided into four parts. Is it swinging versus straight which would be or is it versus straight? So, you need to sort the macro properties of your song rhythmically speaking and then I would say you are allowed to get into the micro world of that particular pillar which is rhythm. The micro world will just transcribe bar after bar. It will tell you in beat one you have a crotchet. In beat two you have two quavers. In beat three you have a quaver rest and then two semi-quavers. In beat four you have a dotted quaver and then followed by a semi-quaver beamed up together so to speak. So, there you actually get into the you pinpoint exactly what you heard but before you do that you need to look at a flow chart of operation rhythmically speaking and then if we look at it from a melodic perspective I would imagine that it's pretty much the same deal. When you are listening to the song you need to first find out the scale of the song and it's not just the scale which we deal with. We need to know the scale. We need to know the key. We may need to know the mode. We may need to know the raga if we are listening to something eastern or Indian in nature and we've done quite a few theoretical lessons on exploring the differences between scales, key signatures, keys, modes, ragas etc. I suggest you watch them. We'll link it up in the description. So, in a nutshell, the scale will tell you if it's major or minor. So, major or minor with all those minor intervals of thirds, minor third, minor sixth, minor seventh. While major scale will have major third, major sixth, major seventh. So, that's the scale. Now, the scale is different from key because the key is your tonal center of your song. Is it D major or is it E flat or rather is it in the key of D in which case it could be the D major, D minor. Of course, minor has different options, harmonic, natural, Dorian and melodic minors. You have a lot of those flavors. So, you need to know the scale and you need to know the key and in some cases if the music is a bit more niche or more advanced to listen, you will have to figure out the mode and the raga. The mode will be a particular degree of the scale from where the root is built. The raga will have directional properties. So, when you're hearing the melody, it goes up a certain way with certain scale degrees or certain intervals and it goes down a completely different way. You may have some intervals going down which you did not have going down. You may have some intervals going in the ascending or the arohan fashion while you may not have some of those intervals in the descending or the arohan fashion. So, you need to figure this out. So, for a melody, the macro perspective would be the scale, the key, the mode or the raga or the key signature. You may want to write that down before you note it. Then after that, again, you need to develop a flow chart. After this stuff is over, you need to then do what I call as melodic curves which is to hear a simple piece of music like and figure and just notate it pitch wise. That's going higher. So, even if I didn't know that the first note was C, as you saw, I got C sharp by mistake. That's fine. I don't have perfect pitch. That's fine. So, it's kind of what I sang. So, it went in the ascending direction while if I do, there we go. So, for me to even match that on the piano or try to match it or attempt to match it, I need to know the orientation of notes with respect to the notes prior to them. So, that would be a melodic curve. So, going higher, coming down lower or maybe a melody like this. And this way, you'll also, after knowing that it is going high, low, it could also be same. A song like that's G, G, twinkle, lala. So, you could have notes which are same. And the point I'm trying to make here is before you get into the actual notes, you need to at least know note with respect to note. One note is gone higher than the other. One note is lower than the other. One note is same as the other. So, after you do that, you can then figure out, okay, how high did it go? I would first say it's high and then how high? And then you see, okay, it was a fifth higher or it was a third higher. Then you ask yourself, what are the kinds of thirds? Major, third, minor, third. Maybe a diminished third if you like to use that.  And so on. Or did it just go and hit the next octave? Or did it stay unison? Those are the decisions you make. And finally, in this so-called melodic flow chart of melodic transcription flow chart, you'll learn or realize that now I know my intervals. So, I now rely on my theory. And if I identified a melody which is 1564, which on C would be C, G, A, F, I need to know what 1564 was if it's any key. For example, if it's the key of E flat. And if you don't know what is 1564, well, your years won't help your theory needs to help. So E flat is the one B flat is the five, C is the six and A flat is the four. So that's the flow chart. So we looked at a rhythmic flow chart, we looked at a melodic flow chart.   Don't listen and quickly try to sneak in or try to find your tune. That's also kind of disrespecting the process of figuring things out in the first place. The song is there. It's hitting your years. And then you need to write what you heard in your book. And then you play what from the book goes to the piano or the guitar. And this will be a lot more knowledgeable of a process if you ask me. So come, so we've looked at melody and rhythm. Now let's look at chords and harmony and the general workflow for knowing your chords and progressions. First of all, when you're listening to a chord, it's good to listen to it in a sequence. Sometimes it's good to listen to it at a point sometimes. So if you're listening to a chord, let's say a chord can be heard in three ways. One is you could figure out what is the degree or what is the scale degree of the chord. So if I'm in the key of C major and I heard a minor chord, first of all, you know, in a major scale theory tells us that the minor chords of a major scale are the second, the third and the sixth degree. So if ever you heard a minor chord, and if you've triangulated that the scale is C major, then the possible minor chords would only be D minor, E minor and A minor. Now it's one of those three. Then when you listen to it, you figure out which degree is it. The degree can be easily figured out using a little bit of technology to kind of cheat, which I'm sure our musicians of the yester year would have never had. That would be the power of using an equalizer in your Spotify or in your computer or in your car audio system or wherever, where you can boost the base of your listening environment. And let's say you think it's D minor. If the prominent note which you heard at the time is D, then it has to be D minor. But then if you think it's D minor and if the prominent base note you heard was A, for all you know, minor was right, but A minor is wrong or rather D minor is wrong and it is thus A minor. So when you're listening to a song, a tip would always be get the equalizer working and try to adjust what you're trying to hear for. If you're trying to hear for chords, I would definitely keep the bass up. And in some instances, I may even go beyond one step and beyond in a sense and go for some ultimate cheating with where you download the song and import it into a software. There's a software which is really good, which I use sometimes for transcription called Moises. You can get it at their website Moises.ai. And there they actually have a system where you can remove the vocals. You can isolate the drums, you can isolate the bass. So it's a very useful tool, not only for beginners, even for people like me. And these days with technology bands are also using it to give them a metronome, build backing tracks, the use cases go on. So check out Moises. It's quite a nice app. So we looked at degree for the chord. You can also look at the type of the chord.  Then you go to major seventh, minor major seventh, dominant seventh, then you have minor seventh, then you have minor seventh flat five or the five half diminished chord or the diminished seventh chord. So that's what you build towards you try to build towards what you're hearing for here an app may actually help. So use these pieces of technology just for what they are useful for. So an app will keep giving you these repeated chords and you have to guess and it helps but the real world of doing it with an actual song is always the most helpful. So the other strategy when you're figuring out a chord is what is the purpose of the chord is the purpose of the chord to be at rest or is the purpose of the chord to be a tense or a bridge or a magnet which locks onto or resolves to or is unstable and thus goes back to the home chord and usually those numbers or those functions we call this functional harmony lot of theory lessons are in the description do check them out and it'll really help you move forward from this particular lesson and we've done a ton of ear training videos on our channel and on our website as part of the members only package. So you have a structured set of ear training videos a structured set of music theory videos waiting for you it's all linked in the description. So there's a lot of stuff in the description for you to check out. So we've looked at the methods of hearing chords which are the chord degree the chord type and the chord purpose which is called functional harmony. So these are how you can arrive or how you can strategize your workflow while you eventually transcribe what do you eventually need to do what is your end goal with ear training. Your end goal is you have a song playing and you're very happy with what's going on you can identify everything out there even if you hate the song you know which we all have a right to do I hate a lot of songs which you may like and I hope we'll still be friends. So you can hate a song but still like it musically what I mean by that is or appreciate it musically what I mean by that is you can listen to a song not to enjoy but you can listen to a song to learn. So you could listen to a complex piece of music which is a language unknown to you which doesn't even have vocals it's a song you just don't like at the moment but so what it's a song you're going to learn from. So as a musician you need to have this mindset I need to spend time with ear training and maybe the song I really like is not good for ear training maybe it's too easy maybe it's just a one five six four chord progression or something. So you need to try to listen to high density music as I call it density is a word I use just as a general comparison between songs you know like you take a two bars of a Bach classical Braden a composition from maybe one of the Bradenberg concertos I'm sure the density of that will be equal to maybe an entire album worth of a pop artist today. I'm just saying but I'm sure you'll agree that I may be right you know so that's what I mean by music density so try to listen to higher dense higher information high information content so to speak it also helps with kids if you have kids who are very young you need to play them a variety of music that really gets them gets their brain flowing and gets them to think and I'm sure what you think is popular for a kid or yourself may not actually be true it's it's ultimately what that individual likes free from a community pressure or free from social pressure saying you have to listen to that because it's in your language the words are as per that parental requirement so because of that I'm going to get you to only listen to that song not really you can listen to instrumental music where whatever goes I guess anything goes so you could have a playlist try to work on a good playlist maybe have a jazz song have a funky song have a gospel song have every genre maybe you can listen to some of my riffs that'll be fun head over to my riff website and see how that goes so I've almost come to the end of my lesson I just wanted to talk about a few things which are important for you to strategize or plan ahead first of all organic ways to get better at year training the three things I would say is listen you have to listen a lot and when you listen don't forget about the simplest of things if you're trying to figure out the melody of a song what if you can just start the process of everything of year training or transcription by just taking a piece of paper and writing all the instruments you have heard you know for example if you're listening to the simpsons theme you would have no vocals you'll have different types of drums you'll have a timpani you'll have a symbol you'll have tuned percussion you'll have untuned percussion tuned percussion could be the glockenspiel the the celesta or the marimba or the vibraphone untuned percussion could be drums kick drum snare drum tambourine symbols etc then you look at what family of instrument you're hearing are you hearing an instrument from the string family the wind family the horn family or the miscellaneous family where instruments like the piano the harp and the guitar fall under string family will have pitch ranges right and also different visual sizes violin viola cello double bass string family then you have your wind family which could start with the flute the the clarinet the oboe the bassoon the real bass instruments the contra bassoons and so on even in indian flutes they don't call it by these names but the size of the flutes shows you the pitches you choose i guess and then of course the horn family the brass family will have the trumpets the saxophones the tuba the french horn so you need to know how these instruments sound you're trying to go there diving in to a pool where you should at least need you need to know what's in it you need to know what are the types of instruments used and how they are playing with each other and then you know hey i just heard a trumpet doing something you could mumble a few things like he's doing pa pa pa pa pa pa and then a marimba is doing something like that you can just act like you're playing these instruments the the the snare drum is going doing some kind of a role the the violin is going is playing and then there's this bass thing which is going stuff like that so try to mimic your instrument and you'll realize each instrument also plays in a specific way like violin you may have the staccato violin where the notes are choppy you may have the legato violin where it's just smooth you may have the the spiccato violin where it's it kind of starts very heavy and then kind of tails and sustains you may have the pizzicato violin where they play with their fingers for the most part you may have the tremolo violin where they're literally trembling on the instrument so the styles of playing the instruments are very important so be very curious is in a nutshell what i'm trying to say so don't just think that an app is going to help you it's not going to help you apps generally don't help so be a bit curious when you're listening to a song and a general word of advice is if i'm a guitar player or if i'm a piano player and if i'm trying to learn a song the last thing which you should try and hear is your own instrument so if you're a singer listen to the vocals last use an app to kind of remove the vocals try it out if you're a pianist well wait listen to everything first write it down in a book then listen to piano last okay and also another great way to to improve your ear training i'm telling you this from a personal perspective is the power of is the power of working jamming and collaborating with other human beings with fellow musicians i see a lot of students who i teach who just learn their piano in their bedrooms in their halls or living rooms or wherever just play in the house you know music is an entertainment field it's an art form you do this for others is what i believe and when you do it for others when you do it with others bandmates and so on you're going to learn a lot more because they also have skills they also are gifted musicians or you both could be learning together y'all will be in the same boat trying to help each other to not to float and not sink so to speak so work with other people whenever you get an opportunity to jam with someone play with a choir jam with a band play with just a singer you know do a small gig near you do it right so be very and and try to get into some recordings as well recordings get you to kind of really listen to every ingredient because it's all track based isn't it a recording will show you that you know there are about 100 plus tracks used in the song so you can get to see exactly isolated what is each one doing and lastly i'd like you to think about a strategy to get better as a musician in terms of not your instrument not your exercises and all that that whatever you have to do you'll do what i'm suggesting is an approach now normally how do we learn music one one opportunity or one methodology would be you read something from a piece of notation and you play you read and play now is that going to actually train your ear or is that going to train your eyes think about that i think it's just going to train your eyes because your focus too much this sense organ is doing everything so this sense organs pretty much sleeping so then it's just eyes muscle memory technique and could be robotic at times think also about watching youtube videos even people like me included when you watch a youtube video you're watching and playing you're not really listening you're you're following an instruction which i tell you and then you just do it my advice is to think about that as well are you watching too much and mimicking are you puppeting are you a puppet in you know the game so to speak you don't want to always do that and another thing you need to probably think if you're learning music by ear are you hearing it and directly playing it i would encourage you to think about that as well and what i suggest at the end of this whole rant is hear music write music and then play music so if you're playing by ear don't hear and play hear right we call it transcription and then you're allowed to play do not play until you've written down what you're going to play or at least in the crudest of forms in your paper or tablet or whatever that i think will help you train your ear and become a more all-round musician and this is with no disrespect to the art of reading and playing to the art of watching us folk on youtube and playing there's nothing wrong with that but there's nothing wrong with also listening and playing which is a serious skill and also i don't want to forget singing is also an important skill as you play the piano so as you sing the sounds are getting registered better in your brain so don't just play the piano or the guitar without singing try to sing as much as possible and get into also sight singing that may be a good skill to start off i will try and do a few videos it's a if ever i read music these days this is how i like to read i like to read the the notation script and i like to sing what's in the book or in the paper i'm not a fan of playing it on the piano that much because i believe my ears can do that and i've got to a point where you'll also see with our youtube videos most of the lessons we do we give you the sheet notation the handwritten notes now that's something we do on our own so we don't rely on any external resource we do it we hear it or we have an exercise we notate it and then we practice it and then we teach it so that's a culture i've generally tried to follow if i hear a song i want to notate it i don't want to go and download it from somewhere or and that's another problem with notation right how do you know that colplay notation you type fix you by colplay and you want to play some song how do you know that's right one way to figure it out is go and ask colplay themselves did you contract this individual to write that notation for you the odds are not so high in fact most musicians don't know how to read and write music even i didn't i got to it much later in my career so be a bit careful with notation because it looks very fancy at times or most of the time it just looks like this very overwhelming way of learning music so you follow it like the gospel so to speak you just look at it and you believe it and then as it turns out you perform it in front of people and then it's not there are some glitches here and there that's another reason why you need to get your songs done and dusted with just your year a book and a piano completely old school if you think about it and even notation if you think about it most of the classical composers maybe 200 300 years ago for all you know why did they use notation did they use notation because they wanted to read it or did they use notation because they wanted to remember their own songs in the first place before taking a nap or passing out after a hard day's work and after their dinner imagine the feeling if they forgot their song in the morning so maybe they composed it quickly needed to write it down write it down neatly invent the system of notation and also collaboration to give it to their orchestra people who are going to meet them maybe the next morning maybe that's why we had notation in the first place for a couple of hundred years before it kind of became very systematic exam driven read that pass your exams and you're a genius or something like that just some stuff to think about guys hope you found this particular lesson useful and to supplement this there are a lot of other videos waiting for you in the description for year training as well as music theory don't forget to subscribe if you haven't already thanks a ton for supporting the channel hit that bell icon for 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There's also that focus of, again, part of that value of a private cloud and this operating partner solution where you can get that enterprise stability. How do I provide security, quality of service, the performance requirements that I need for my workloads and still, again, in that cloud self-service agility that I'm trying to enable for my end users? So part of this key is where these services come together. So starting with that foundation of the HPE flexible capacity solution, it gives us a pricing and financing vehicle that allows us to identify and scale out the environment that a customer might need and then charge them as they use this. And I'll kind of talk a little bit more detail of how that actually kind of breaks down. But it gives us the ability to do a roll-in rack solution. We can deliver this in any of rack spaces data centers around the world or we can provide it in a customer data center, customer prem or third party data center where it is a full managed solution. We will roll in the rack of hardware, deliver this capacity and services and then bring in the rack space managed services to actually deliver and operate the open stack software itself. So that software stack, helping design, deploy and operate that cloud infrastructure. Bringing together our best practices, our opinionated deployment of these technologies, how do we operate it at scale and with enterprise level SLAs that you're looking to consume this as a black box service. Make sure you're getting the availability, performance and scalability that you're looking for from that platform. This is really kind of bringing together those kind of best in service capabilities. Rack space, we are operators of this technology. We are the home of fanatical support for those that may be familiar with rack space as a brand. This is our focus is how do we help operate complex technologies for customers at scale and this solution gives us the ability to deliver a private cloud solution for customers and help them consume this technology and take advantage of an open stack private cloud environment. The core to that flexible cap model and this is the traditional approach. If you look at the left-hand side you'll see historically and with most IT infrastructure I have to plan for what my theoretical capacity needs to be. How am I planning for what I'm going to grow into within a reasonable amount of time but it is a step function of expansion. I am paying for all of that capacity whether I'm using it or not and this in some cases can be an economic barrier to adoption of private cloud. I know I wanna go cloud, I know I wanna consume open stack but I'm not ready to consume it 100% day one. How do I help ramp into that? How do I help build capacity and leverage the power and flexibility of cloud without committing financially into tiers that I'm not ready to consume yet? So this flexible capacity solution and our ability to partner with HPE and deliver this allows us to plan out what is my expected kind of steady state capacity I'm gonna start with and how do I then bring in a buffer if you will of additional capacity on top of that? This allows me to have that capacity available and on demand. I can light it up immediately, I can scale into it seamlessly yet I'm not charged for, I'm not paying for that capacity until I'm ready to use it. So give me both the elasticity where I can burst workloads into it and then scale them back down or to match to my steady organic growth as my cloud footprint and more and more workloads move to this cloud how do I scale that more steadily if you will. This really allows organizations to map their cost to their actual growth and usage itself. So giving the fixed capacity that I'm expecting and then in a consumption based model charge per gig of RAM if you kind of think about that kind of model of how you'll actually charge for this just as if it was a public cloud and scale into it as I organically grow. So this can be actually game changing in certain cases for organizations as they look to map their overall cost of workloads and think about workload placement decisions they have the extra capacity when they need it but they're not financially committing to it until they're ready to move into it. So it's a very powerful tool that moves into that. So it's a high level conversation. I really wanted to tee up the concept. We do have a number of rackers and other folks that are here that can speak more to this solution answer more questions you may have about it. We have the rack space booth over here. We've also been working with HPE and Ericsson on the lounge right around the corner here where we have some events planned and other activities I would love to engage for more conversation. I do have time now if there are those that might have actual questions that I can address or talk to or again would encourage you to come meet with any of our rackers and HPE partners that are here. Great, short and sweet. Now I'll get back to edge computing AI and ML. Maybe I'll be the next one. Thank you.


Hey curlfriends, I'm Bianca Renee and you're watching Bianca Renee today and today We're gonna do a little side-by-side comparison slash Detangling race I'm gonna be testing how long it takes to detangle my curls using just my fingers versus the tangle teaser The tangle teaser is a very popular Detangling brush to be completely honest the very first time I ever saw this brush in stores, and I saw that it was supposed to detangle and also help with curly hair I was like There's no way look at these little bristles excuse the hair I just you know to tangle it with it, but I Looked at this and I was like there's no way these little teeth are Detangling anything because if you have curly hair, you know that we're always told to use things like a wide tooth comb Wide tooth. There's nothing wide about these bristles. So it kind of just goes against everything that we were kind of like Raised on but I did notice that even when I detangle like I think it's supposed to be like this because it has like a perfect curve For your hand a little rest for your finger, and then you're supposed to like you know the tangle But I keep holding it like this. I think that also feels more comfortable Even though oh wait that kind of fits in this little groove. I Don't know what's correct But um, you know just do whatever feels comfortable. I think I like this way. Is that wrong? So today you're gonna see a live Demonstration of how this tangle teaser works Versus just detangling with my hands Alrighty this is Not looking very good. My hair is so tangled. It's like day five I don't even know what this is either the worst time to do this or the best But I am gonna wash my hair first using my naughty blonde locks I've been using the shampoo for my newer blonde hair and After I rinsed it out as you can see there's still you know this little bird nest that's happening in here So I'm gonna grab my Carol's daughter cocoa cream creamy conditioner. This is one of the few Carol's daughter products that is silicone free and I actually love this conditioner to detangle So I'm gonna prep this through my hair get all my curls ready And I'm actually gonna risk my cell phone for you guys and time this so we see how long it takes Ready set go Let's do this. I usually edit out some of my detangliness of my videos aren't that long but today I want to show you my entire Detangling process in real time, but you know just sped up So this is exactly how long it takes for me to detangle my hair And this is actually the CG way to detangle just using your finger It's supposed to be a more gentle way to detangle your curl without ripping out any hair And this is something that I've been doing for a long time. It works for me Especially if you have a really good conditioner with good slip I personally also like to detangle with my fingers because I feel like I get a little bit more elongation because I'm pulling my curls down Stretching them out instead of doing anything to create some more extra definition. Okay, we're done time two minutes and 50 seconds So here's how my hair looks after being detangled completely drenched in conditioner and my curls look like this Not bad. It's something that I'm usually used to every day Now it's applied some more conditioner to the other side kind of prepping my hair Smoothing it in the cuticle really getting on the ends and let's begin with the tangled teaser Now when you use a brush you always just start at the bottom of your hair And you also want to hold a little bit above wherever you're brushing so that you're not yanking it from your scalp So start from the bottom and work your way up now. It's interesting because I feel like this brush Isn't like penetrating through my hair because the little bristles are so small It feels like it's just combing like the outside and not really getting through my hair if that makes sense But I did notice that There are two different sized bristles on this brush So the long ones are supposed to help with the tangling and the short bristles are supposed to help smooth down the cuticle Now even though it doesn't feel like it's getting off the tangles It obviously is because I'm getting it done, but I did notice I keep getting like a little hand cramp By holding this like it's just not very comfortable in my hand or it's something that I need to get used to Because of the weird shape and it's a plastic circle brush It does get kind of slippery so I have dropped it before But now I'm getting down to the final tangles and we're done two minutes and 30 seconds Actually a good 20 seconds faster than the tangling with my hands. So here's the side with the tangled teaser Definitely combed out and here's the side that I detangled with my hands Hmm. I feel like the side with my hands might look a little bit longer My curls aren't as defined as the tangled either side though What do you guys think I decided to go back to my hair and smooth it down and look at that with the condition in there It just like really curls up my curls making these little ringlets Let's just watch a couple of these just because it's kind of like very soothing and oddly satisfying Okay, that's enough of that. How many of you guys could watch that all day But I was interested to see that I actually had less shedding from the tangled teaser over my fingers Hmm.  I do think using a brush probably gives a better Penetration into the hair probably evenly Distributes all the product better than just your fingers and just really put some product on every single curl But when you do use a brush like this you are risking getting more shrinkage because you're making better curls basically So the tighter the curl the more shrinkage you're gonna have And here are my curls out of the shower I put some Dippity-Doo girls with curls moose and I love my results. So there you go Very interesting results. I really thought I was gonna be faster with my fingers But the tangled teaser did win and it also gave me some really really really good definition Now the hair you're looking at now is technically day two. I took that shower last night. So this is kind of like a day and a half Hair not even really day two, but look how spiraled my curls are this curl right here This one's just trying to show off like who you about to go see so overall this does do a good job at detangling I was very very skeptical just by judging the look of it But it does get the job done. It does get it done quickly. It just is a little it takes some getting used to You know like I don't know if this is a normal brushing motion I don't think this is these are like all awkward angles So I do think it'd be much better with a handle and because all of you guys spoke up There now is a new version with a handle I remember seeing a post the tangled teaser posted saying like we heard you and we delivered So I really really really hope I get to try the tangled teaser with the handle I feel like that would be like a game changer and I probably start using that all the time But fortunately these are really easy to find the tangled teasers are sold at Target at Ulta at Sephora on Amazon And they're only 12 bucks. So for that affordable price and that easily accessible I say give it a try if you're someone that's looking for some more definition Definitely use the tangled teaser.  It's gonna rip out your hair only use the Denman brush for definition But the tangled teaser will help you detangle your curls and can also give it that same like Ringlet definition that you use the Denman brush for so Teach his own. That's my opinion. But what do you think? Have you tried the tangled teaser? Have you tried the Denman brush due to tangle with your fingers? Let's get down to the bottom of this and figure out what is every curly person's favorite way to detangle If you enjoyed this video and or want me to review the tangled teaser with the handle Make sure you get this video a thumbs up So I know you guys want that video and I post two videos every week once on Friday and once on Sunday And if you want daily curly hair tips, make sure you follow me on Instagram at Ms. Bianca Renee I'll see you guys next time. Thanks for watching Bianca Renee today


Hello and welcome back to the craft box. My name is Brenton. Today. We're an episode a hundred and forty-five of the wizard winner one death walkthrough Continuing our journey in as ticker last episode if you haven't checked it out already we Did a whole bunch of things we were in the the Cenote and the Zocalo and three points and all that we're just going back and forth around places But today we are hitting into the deepest mines or the deepest mine in fact So yeah, let us see what is happening today Sure we go Yay, please. Thank you Okay defeat thunder horn zombies. What do I have on my dick? That is a good question We should be fine. Okay. Here we go. These guys actually will need to put up and fell just in case Even though we've already fought these people. I believe like a billion times because they just don't change things, but that's fine Yeah, we won't do that. We'll just we'll just go for this. We'll just do this. It's fine Yeah, so if you haven't checked that last episode go do that I actually don't remember because it's been way too long since I've recorded something.  I know it's a shock week off any YouTube or what no So yeah, I can't believe that it's like nearly the end of October already like what the hell It's like How Time just goes so quickly It's kind of scary actually to think that like It's nearly November and then it's December and it's 2018 Like what how I Am stunned. Yeah Thank you very much. I love to be stunned. Thank you. Oh, you're just gonna stun chain me I see how it is Okay As I'm recording this which is a couple days before it goes out The imperial test from dropped just a couple of days ago Which is quite cool only part one of them here, which is kind of a surprise. I was actually expecting both. Oh, yeah I'm stunned. Well, I was actually expecting to be a full world release, but I'm I Mean considering what Kings Isle has Done this year. I can kind of understand they did move off us So I'm just gonna put it down to that and why it's not a full release But from what I've seen and heard it looks pretty And I can't wait to get there on either my death or my life. We'll see who gets there first Yeah But yeah, I'm actually really looking forward to Kind of just moving through the game because we're nearly Yeah, it means we're gonna have a longer time on this walkthrough before we stop because I think that they part two of Imperial will probably come out around like Probably April next year and they're like first update of 2018 most likely because if we're using what they did for Chrysalis Which is two parts they Did that I believe it was either the first or second But they were like really close together and it was when they were actually doing the game more regularly three times a year So, I mean, I think it will be the first one because I wouldn't be surprised if they already have Like if they finished part one ages ago and just kind of held off for a lot longer To see if they could maybe try and get part two finished, but I'm You know, I can make maybe maybe they decided in the end that it will just release part one So there's at least something That's what I think might have happened, I didn't even care whether that's good fantastic Yeah, that's what I think might have happened, but who knows don't work at King's oh, so I don't know But that's just my opinion.  We needed It's fine, I can't wait until we get More astral magic like sharpen blade and all that good stuff. That will be fantastic. I can't wait for that Fizzle good job. Thank you. Love fizzles. Love me some fizzles, you know But you know, I'm really looking forward to heading into Imperial I think it's gonna look well, I know that it looks really cool from what I've seen and I think that I'm kind of kind of upset because from what I've seen tweeted I know that there's a lot of like not stolen assets, but like assets that That are like Pirate 101 assets and they're just And they're just an Imperial like all of their ship models and stuff and it's funny I don't know how I feel about that considering Considering they haven't updated Pirate 101 much this year. There's only been one update And I kind of find it a bit rude, but you know what, we're just gonna move on over that And see what actually it's like, so I'm not gonna I'm not gonna judge it to five health good job I'm not gonna judge it until I'm being there, but I'm looking forward to the story from what I've I haven't actually played through Mirage either But like from what I've seen from the Mirage story line. I think that I Really like where the game is going. I know that it's kind of taken more of a sci-fi twist, I'm not sure how I feel about that, but I think that It could definitely work and I mean it kind of does suit the game. I suppose especially since Really why am I fizzling so much today? Since like ever since like Polaro say have in with the Arcanum and stuff They've like kind of taken that a bit more sci-fi sort of Way which is cool, but yeah, I'm not I'm not 100% sure if I like that. I can't believe we've fizzled so much today I'd be so angry if I fizzled again I can't believe you had 5 health left.  So unfair No, okay there we go. Finally done done done da da da da da Okay, let off more of these things This is not fun Why do we have to defeat so many things? Well, I'll be back in just about once I've defeated these because literally we've already defeated these so many times Okay, I am back just finished off that battle Life is far more easy to kill than death not death.  Wait, mm-hmm. Don't know what this is. What are you? Do you have a clue for us? Maybe? Hungry dead dragged King Akampi down here. I tried to follow, but they caved in the path behind them Can you get through? Each crystal will break through one type of layer, but if you choose wrong the hungry dead will come around Okay, so I'm assuming that the first layer is ice because That's what I can see. Um, okay. What are we doing? What are we doing? What are we doing? What are we doing? What are we doing? What are we doing? What are we doing? What are we doing? What are we doing? Maybe fire? Maybe we're working on opposites. Oh, I don't even know what we're doing. I'm kind of worried Fire ice Let's pick up ice Do we like pick it up and have to go over to it and like break it? Oh, we do. Oh We did it wrong Okay, it must have been the opposite thing Well, I'll be back in just a bit Okay Hmm failed that one. I'm back though Wasn't too hard. Just literally the same things again because you know what if you can fight all of them again It's fine.  Okay, let us put in some things and Greetings outsider. I am the true king of the Aztec Osores My rule extends from even beyond death Prepare to slake my hunger We're okay. Um, we are going to Go for it. I suppose we've got faints. We got reshuffles. We got yeah, we just wait. He sees This is a fine good. Okay.   I Actually just noticed that we nearly got 4,000 health. That's great. Like I'm really hiding the 4,000 health Can't wait until that happens That's gonna be great.  It's death permit Stop giving me the wrong blade Death permit that's the um correct measure of death and 99.9 percent of every year I Cast death spells at a hundred death that is quite quite a lot of death So I'm quite a master of death or at least that's what my title says He's obviously bad.  Oh, look at that 310 death permit at that time. Whoa Fire dragon haven't seen this one in a while For it. No, I'm not gonna block and the overtime's gonna get me Down the block This is gonna do so much. Oh shizzle didn't expect that Okay, we're gonna have to bled quick and fast We won't use one of us for a blades. Oh Yeah, this is gonna do lots of damage, especially if they have to hit more. Don't hit more please We'll just do most of the big blades so I can get some health because we're already kind of dying So But we should be fine I mean we haven't died much and I mean if we die, it's just because we're bad So, you know how to fix that you just become good, which is just try again and be good So we'll try not to be bad Which is kind of hard for me because I'm really bad. What blade did we put on the That one. Okay, we'll do this one Okay, I seriously need to think about hitting This is bad. This is really bad Should I or should I not Do a another blade How much health in my arm six pips one thousand health we go first. Let's bled leolo I 100 health no more dot. That's fine. We will risk the blade He may not do anything look at this. This is a fortify. Nope and fell. Yep. Got that one right and he part Oh, look at that amazing. We risked it and we won I Mean kind of keen just to go in for a scarecrow right now just to get some health because 800 Not the best don't you dare kill me the physical which is good. We could have bladed again, but that's fine Okay, we're doing this Also, I don't think I talked about this but headless horseman is now learnable in the Halloween pack What the hell where did that come from? I was not expecting that. That was one thing that I was really surprised about And I think a lot of people as well. I I think it's really cool that it is though Hopefully it gets To be crafted. I don't think I think it's only the wisteria low-hat ones that are craftable in the test room But I think it becomes craftable. That would be great. I definitely craft that Do not air the horseman But that time it's unfortunate for you What do we have how much health do you have you have seven? Um, what do we get we got a faint we will do that then sure why not? Kind of worried that he's gonna eat fruit me, but that doesn't happen often so Who knows who knows? Probably just jinxed myself then but who cares We'll do this blade. I mean we should be fine. We've got a lot of blades that we can use So yeah, we should be fine.  How did that happen? I never run out of cards and you're gonna need it He could have like three health and like you run out of cards and that's just unfortunate But Because you could even want it or hit again exactly and you could feel if you have heels in your deck like always carry heels as well Another prime example of just in case things go bad or life advice of bread Wow, you're really bad. You've got really shit accuracy jays fizzles so much fizzle more than me man And that's saying something I fizzle a lot Especially today. I Fizzled so much today, and I don't even know why I think I fizzled more today than I have Just kind of embarrassing Critical stop critical fire dragons. They're kind of deadly There's lots of crit but really should accuracy. So I mean I respect that You can't have good of everything unless you're You're good, but he's not good. Obviously. That's unfortunate. Let's talk to Vaughn See if this kills it may not we'll reshuffle it for a dozen or if he has like no health. We just scapegoat I didn't fizzle which is good start good sign Can't wait until we get a vending cross so they'll do a lot more damage Unfortunately, it doesn't do it So I don't know if I'd use if I really use that all the time Because I do like getting health back getting health back is great Which is why I didn't really use sculler food dragon also because I really hate relying on Hate relying on dogs. It just takes more like more time to do the damage. Don't know how to do nice We'll have to take the badge of leadership from my cold dead hands. Oh wait Yeah, you are dead. I can take it. Um, okay Let us click you You do as the fallen king said and remove the badge of leadership from his cold dead hands However, it continues to radiate with a strong feeling of death and the underworld Okay, and let us hit on back. Nice. We teleported there And here we go and that loads, please. Thank you Okay Where are we going now back into the snow day? Think we this way is fine. Pretty sure it's this way. You know, it's for fun out soon. Yes. Yes. Hello Xili black eye You have recovered the batch of leadership. Well done young magician King Akampi read this demise will be recorded as a great tragedy, but at least we know his final fate You are right young magician. The batch of leadership has become corrupted by death magic While that would be fine for an undead king It's not so fitting for a new untested ruler. You'll need to reconsecrate it before returning it There are several things we will need collect raw gold from around the mines You'll also need fireket salvenum You can get some from the fireket cells kept by the dwellings finally You'll have to gather broken calendar stone pieces by battling the moon skull zombies who stole them Okay, let us first collect the gold Moon skull zombies is a yep these guys again stop making us fight the same people. It's kind of stupid Like why just make us defeat the same people for like a billion quests and it's probably gonna be like seven of them Like that's probably what it's gonna be So it's kind of ridiculous, but that's fine. No, we don't want to go in there Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. No, just kidding Do we need any more of that? I think we did No, apparently we don't okay. We will go and use the firekits cages Get these moon skulls on these are kind of annoying just as well we boast but like as a life solo life That would be so annoying that would piss me off honestly if we just had to keep defeating them like ice is annoying But like for a life wizard, I think life would be more annoying Um, I mean life has a great a good survivability With like death, but um, that's still yeah Just no just no Okay, one Two Three and now I need broken four of them All right, does anyone have a quest to defeat them because they'll be great big Can you can you help clear a path so I can escape? Nope, I will not Okay, anyway, I will be back once I have defeated and collected all of these things Okay, I am back just finished off that the drop rates are terrible You managed to get everything so fast good work. I don't think that was fast at all. Sorry about it In order to re-consecrate the batch of leadership You need to reassemble the calendar stone in the pyramid of white fire The revealed calendar stone will melt the rogue all so you can reshape the batch and the fire Ketzal venom will burn out the corruption But the pyramid has been occupied by skirky screaming moon a necromancer who has thrown herself over to the shadow queen This is a big thing. Oh, it is. Hello already getting up there. That's interesting. I thought that wasn't until later Apparently we're doing that now Okay, but you know the drop rates are absolutely hideous You know what I really find weird is where the hell is the water coming from it's coming from this way, but it's like nothing How does that work like how can it flow underneath the pyramid as well? What so confused oh well Actually knows it to know if there is anyone I thought we went in here later Maybe it's down there somewhere that we go in later who knows I don't know not me I don't know who knows anything not me anymore Let's not but no the drop where it's absolutely horrendous Yeah If you get one, you're really lucky and if you don't then that's just normal so Terrible so bad so bad Whoo, this is quite a big place Yeah, I think we see quite a few more of these later on hello dear fellow Bump, but I'm but I'm prisms. What is the minion life? Okay, we need prisms Put in a couple of prisms. We will also put in a couple of feints and tc's I restocked.  We will do that. We will do that We will do that and We will do that Okay Let us do those Ray Ray Typical typical Ray Dunno, no, no, no, no, no Yeah, that did quite a bit But she crittles something. I don't even know I swear sometimes Sorry, I'm stretching half the time I play this game. I just like I don't actually focus It's really I don't know why I just Recently I've gone into the habit of not really focusing on playing the game more just like Yeah, I don't even know how to describe it, but half the time it's not like let's sit down and play a game play this game It's just like well, I'm just gonna randomly like look at Twitter or something. Well attempting to win I mean, I suppose that's kind of how it's ended up I'm watching you do who know just whatever Don't know if I like that but I'm I'm doing it Okay, let us We will do a death blade We obviously aren't gonna get So just do what we got Stop letting already I suppose Blade up a bit and then hit Hopefully while we boost on both of them now, so it shouldn't be too bad We can play now. We've already got that one. We'll do this one Yeah See, I don't even know I don't I've actually found that I don't actually play games in my free time anymore Like it's probably bad, but like I just don't like I would use to play like part of it If I had like a spear But I just What's happened recently that did a lot of damage again, I'm just not focusing I'm not focusing. It's so bad. Like I don't know. I just just weird. I'm a weird person really really weird Really really weird. Well, we'll do another thing probably Actually, maybe maybe not Three blades in a time What should I do? Should I think or should I blade or should I what? Let's um faint and just keep going. I suppose with the blades until we um, I mean, yeah, oh Hello weakness. I didn't know you knew weakness. That's kind of Cheeky.  What do we have? I think we've already got the 40 We've got the 45 and the 40 and a nice way minus 30. Thanks. We'll get another 45 The item blade This is one none of them can use earthquake because I would be shitting my pants right now But Should be fine. We can use this one as well Don't need to you We'll enshrine you though And we will do that and then we Will Probably yes, definitely. Yeah, so stop critting.  I have like Thank you for fizzling. We're going Yeah, I Could die. I could die. I could die. I could die. I could die. That's not good. That ain't good You gotta hit gotta gotta hit gotta hit gotta hit gotta hit. Please don't do anything too bad Hello Good Okay, that's fine. Yay, please don't fizzle. Yes, here we go. Okay. I've got some health thing. That's good Should kill at least Both of them should be dead. They should both be dead. I've could actually a lot this episode I fizzled a lot and could a lot so I'm kind of surprised I would have killed him even without him. That's good. That's good Well, there we go. That is skirk is down Yep, sure as repair the calendar stone With skirk is screaming moon out of the way You were able to put the calendar stone pieces back together despite having been broken by some immense force The calendar stone pieces fit together perfectly you place the raw gold atop it and it melts to restore the badge of leadership Finally you apply the fire ketzel venom and the traces of corruption burn away Okay, there we go. I think that is basically The end of the Samurtee hopefully no no we come back. Don't worry. We come back It's really weird. We I've said this a lot but we keep bouncing around between areas And it's one thing that I really hate about it is teka like and the towards like the last three areas are fine But like everywhere else we just keep going back and forth back and forth back and forth and it's really annoying We do that a lot in pirate one-on-one as well and it actually pisses me off because I personally hate I Prefer just sticking to one area finishing that and then going to the next like for instance and Basically every world up until now except dragons by that had a place where we had to come back to But I didn't mind that because they kind of made it like a separate area and it was like decently long Whereas this is kind of like still like if you're here for like two quests, then you leave again It's really annoying you defeated skirk is screaming moon so easily you fight like one of the great Peaceful at carnivores Take the newly reconsecrated batch of leadership back to King Aksai a knife moon in three points With luck this will be the symbol. He needs to unify the people around him. I'll return to the Sokalo myself Okay, here we go Basically, we'll talk to the king and then I think we will end off the episode there just because I think it's been going on for quite a while Um Not a hundred percent sure of the time, but we might as well We finish this in OT and we'll get new orders and do that next time. So yeah, we'll go and see the king first With the April or whatever. He's called. I think it's a king Who knows but yeah Next episode. I don't know if we go into mangrove Marsh now or afterwards I can't remember if there's anything here to do before mangrove Marsh or we just go straight into the marsh, but Either way, it'll be one of the two Yeah, let's head on in Thank you Hello again young magician you smell as if you are victorious in battle What do you have there the badge of leadership? I am impressed young magician You still wish to investigate the interior of the pyramid of the black sun I worry that it contains terrors too great for even you But go inside with my permission only tell me what you find Okay, so next episode. Oh, I see what he changed. He did the badge. That's cool. Um next episode We will head into the um black sun chamber in three points. I think that's But yeah, basically that's um Another we another we instance dungeon. Um, so yeah Look at that amazing view. Um, anyway next time we will head up into the pyramid of black sun Thank you for watching room to leave a like and subscribe and if you're very subscribed Priscilla bells, so you know exactly when I post another video and remember craft outside the box


Alright guys, before we start the vlog, I know every week I plug the Vibra Straight Iron and I talk about giving one away if you subscribe to the channel. So what I'm going to do today is give away a Vibra Straight Iron to one lucky subscriber. And that subscriber this week is Jessica Nicole right there. So if that is you, Jessica, then email contest at freesaloneducation.com. We'll ship you out your iron. And if you guys want a chance to win an iron as well, then make sure you subscribe to this channel right now and you could have a chance to win. Make sure you're commenting so I see you and thank you guys so much for the support. Let's get started with the video. Here we go. What's up guys? Welcome to today's vlog number 98. We're getting so close to 100. That was a big goal for me. I started the vlog last February. So since last February, I've done 100 vlog step by step videos for you guys. So it's pretty cool. Today, what we're going to focus on is hair color. Now what I wanted to do is I wanted to color the haircut that I did in vlog number 97. So if you guys want to go check out the haircut, you can watch that first. You can watch it after. But this is the cut that we're going to focus on. It's a long layered haircut. So you can see how long it is. But also it's got a nice little kickback fringe. We did a three twist. We call it the three layer haircut because we did three twists on the top of the head and cut it to create all the layering. So it's a really simple haircut. Then we went in and now we added the hair color. So what I did was I added depth through the bottom and throughout the haircut as well. So I'm going to show you a full step by step on that. And if you guys have any questions, post them in the comments below. And before you forget, hit that subscribe button so you don't miss any of the videos that we have coming up in the future. We've got a lot of big plans, a lot of videos to do. So let's get started with this one. Here we go. All right, guys. So we're going to start off our sectioning. I'm using the YS Park 102 comb. It's got a nice skinny metal tail to it. So it's easy for creating those partings. And I'm going to start by creating a nice halo section around the top, including the crown area. So I'm going about mid crown down and then a little bit past the high point of the head to create that circle. Now this circle would be based on the density of the hair. This mannequin has a medium density. So I do a medium-sized circle. If she had a finer density of hair, I would probably do a little bit bigger circle. And if she had a higher density of hair, I would do a smaller circle because the higher density of the hair, this halo is going to fall over and it might overtake the entire technique. So you want to make sure you leave a little bit of room for that. Now I'm going to section off the fringe area. That's my next sectioning. Basically going from parietal ridge to the edge of the eyebrow. The thing about color that I love as opposed to hair cutting, hair cutting I feel very precise in. Color, I feel like there's some give. So it's more of a feeling that you get. So with that fringe area it was a little bit more asymmetrical. But right around the edge of the eyebrow. Then I create a triangle section. This one I didn't want to do a full triangle. So you can see I cut off the corner. That was so that I could include some of that hairline hair in there and not go all the way down to the hairline. And in the back portion I go from the crown area down to the occipital bone with a triangle piece as well. This one I didn't have to cut off because obviously there's more density in the back. Then I'm going to create one more on the side. And again there was more density on this side, more hair to work with. So I create that full triangle with a point leaving the hairline unexposed. So I don't want to go all the way down to the hairline, all the way down to the ear, just down enough to create that triangle. The thing I love about triangles, we'll get into the color in a minute. I'm using Joico 4NA 20 volume. What I want to do is create that depth. But why I like creating triangles in the haircut is it's a triangle is based on a diagonal. So if I'm creating a diagonal in the hair it's going to be a little bit softer feel. I also brought in the head sheets for this technique so you can see it. So we're going to create that 4NA all the way through the bottom of the haircut. My goal with this is to show depth and show that shadowing from the layering that we created in the cut that again you guys can watch on vlog number 97 if you want to see that cut in full. So I'm just going through painting scalp to ends 4NA. I like this color because with Joico this is a green base to it. So it definitely cuts out a lot of those red tones that would come through in the hair color. That's you know basic color theory. So I'm just going through softening by adding the depth and the darkness. Then I go through in the rest of the haircut and I'm going to add some brightness to it. Some more gold tones. So I'm using more muted kind of neutral tones in the bottom in the shadowing areas and then where the sun would hit it and would really make this haircut pop I use more of the golden tones. So the other thing I want you to notice as I work through it this is something I learned a long time ago but I use my tail comb and my brush at the same time. So I use the tail comb to section instead of flipping the brush around keeps my brush nice and clean and then I go through with the comb and create my partings. That just allows for easier workflow and anything I can do to make coloring faster. It's what I like to do because this to me is just a quick paint to accent a haircut. So what we're going to do is finish up these sections. You can see at this point I've painted through everything and you can already see that color. The thing I like about the Joyco color they set me an entire box of this stuff and I've really been enjoying working with it because of the fact that it goes on really smooth. It's not a super thick color so even though it's permanent it glides onto the hair really well. I get really good saturation and nice even feel to it when it's all done and processed. So now I'm going in with 7NG 30 volume and the thing I like about the 7NG like I said before I wanted to add more golden natural tones to the hair as well so I don't want to just mute the hair out. It's not all about always going in and neutralizing everything. Hair naturally does have some warmth to it so I want to go in just paint in that NG in each of the triangle sections. So what I like about the head sheet that I did you guys can let me know if you like this kind of look to it but for the hair color I wanted to showcase exactly what I put in each section because I know we only have one camera angle with this as well. So I wanted to show you guys exactly how we're doing each portion of the color. So the green stands for the 4NA throughout this whole head sheet and then the golden color is for our gold 7NG through the rest. So I want to paint full full blown sections the entire triangle. If you wanted a little more blend to the color you could also foil every other section take diagonal sections up the triangle and and separate it that way which would give you a little bit more blend to the color. I like having a little bit more of a bold statement and these colors are in the family they're only three shades apart so it's not going to be that big of a difference. If we were working with blondes then I would definitely break it up and do more foil work throughout this triangle or even balayage these triangles as well. So you can see those tones kind of working together I love the look of them already I love how neutral and deep the 4NA is and then how you know kind of bright and golden you can see that 7NA coming through. So now we're going to we're going to paint the 7NA through the entire fringe area. The reason I chose to do this you could break it up as well because I wanted to add that brightness to the face I didn't want the dark stuff all around her face we're already going to have that in the temple area so I just wanted to brighten it up right in the front. Most people like to see the brightest tone in the front of their hair color. So finishing up the last couple sections again real simple and the color works through really nice so I had no issues with the saturation it actually goes on pretty quick and smooth. You'll see that kind of lay each section on top of each other so as I'm painting I just allow it I try to keep the two colors separated but it's okay if they touch a little bit. So now this is the fun part of the color and where it could get a little tricky and why I really decided to do the head sheet is because you can see the different triangles that I did on the top so even though we're working a circle I kind of create almost like a backgammon board if you guys know what that is it's just triangles placed next to each other which creates a lot of movement and dimension it's also this technique is great for anybody that wears their hair all different directions so it creates a lot of blend but also a lot of versatility in the color as well. You can see all the different pieces we're just kind of painting and separating them keeping everything separated but still allowing it to touch a little bit colors organic it moves throughout the the head so it's okay if some of it touches and blends together. Now if we were working with Leitner it would be a little bit different story there.  You could even do smaller triangles on the top if you wanted to so there's a lot of variations. I don't want to ever say this is the technique you should do on every guest this is just a variation of something that you can create and it gives you multiple ideas to kind of attack your hair colors. So there you go you can see that's the end result now we're going to blow or we're going to let it process 30 minutes and then it'll be all done. So now I'm going to go in with my brocado mousse blow dry it this is a great mousse because it's a nice light hold but it has a real fullness to feel to it so it gives a lot of volume but it's not sticky which is something I really like in a mousse. I'm going to use the ergo paddle brush got the Dyson blow dryer a lot of you guys are going to ask questions about the Dyson blow dryer I've talked about it in the other videos I do like the blow dryer it is pretty expensive for what it is but I like the tool it's a great conversation piece and it works really well but I think a lot of professional blow dryers work really well so make sure you have an ionic blow dryer something that isn't going to roast the hair while it's drying it and you'll be good to go on that. So as I'm blow drying you can really get the blow drying technique on vlog 97 when we do the cut but I'm just working the hair back and forth I want to show you guys one style with this I think I do two styles in 97 if I remember correctly and then we're going to go in with our joyco thermal protectant spray so when I get the hair 90 dry sometimes 80 dry I spray the thermal protectant spray in and then I finish my blow dry then when I go in with the iron the hair is nice and protected and I don't have to worry about it I love this angle because you can really see the depth of that color you can also see the separation of those layers it really brings it all to life it's the best part about coloring a haircut and why I like to really have the idea of the cut before I do the color in my mind because I can show it off better in the end result so I kick the bang back just to really show that brightness you can see the depth underneath again you can do this multiple ways you could break up that depth if you wanted to but I really like the story of this color and I think it looks great I hope you guys like it that's really the important part but you can see how it shows off the layers that's what I like hope you guys like it let me know in the comments below all right guys like always if you like the cut then hit the subscribe button hit the like button share this video with all of your friends out there and if you have any questions and post them in the comments below I love hearing your questions and also you guys know that I love seeing if you made it this far in the video post that below as well thank you guys so much for watching I'll see you on the next video


In this module, we are going to appreciate if there is a distinction between services and applications with regards to the next generation networks. For that, we'd have to clearly define each one of these and see how NGIN considers them as their definition and then how makes necessary arrangements for their provisioning. The applications as such, if we look at the classical perspective, have existed for a fairly long time now. For instance, we know of the worldwide web browsing that is web service. It is a client-server application. Likewise, we can think about any other peer-to-peer application as well. Now what makes it qualify as an application and not as a service? The first one is that the communication that takes place between the client and the server, it does not require any specific signaling. If there is a connectivity requirement between client and server, that is already catered for using the DNS framework, the IP addressing, and the server availability on the port. NGIN recognizes this as a reality and provides applications from the NGIN portal or NGIN perspective. If you look at the services, services are distinct from applications, from the classical understanding. That is, services require the presence of some underlying infrastructure for call and session control. It means that there's a requirement for a service to be executed in that a certain call management system like dialing, call acceptance, acknowledgement mechanism should exist. From that perspective, it is different from application. The quality of service-based voice over IP is one good example of a service. We call it, you can call it a voice service. Now this voice service is actually requiring some kind of signaling. Session initiation protocol is a signaling framework that implements all the call handling features on behalf of the QoS voice enabled voice over IP service. NGIN also recognizes this as a reality and NGIN makes necessary arrangements to ensure that whether it's a service like this or an application that we have just seen are seamlessly provided over the NGIN network. Let's look at the overall services and applications from the network point of view. Here we see that we have the top layer that comprises services and applications. Now the applications wouldn't require much of an underlying infrastructure with regards to call signaling. The services would require, as you can see, we have independent application server and we have a service database. You might have observed that when it comes to application, we have a server providing the services. But the service database actually means all the services which we have seen requiring some kind of underlying infrastructure are put in a database because these services are called by the end users. Then we have users, user database, which we are not going to go into much detail about. And then we have the underlying layer also called the control layer. Control layer is meant to provide the required signaling for the services on the services layer. Then we have the core layer and we have the access layer. Regarding the core layer, we can see that it is a connectivity of routers. Now these routers can be directly connected to each other through IP or there could also be provisioning of MPLS, the multi-protocol label switched based IP network configuration that allows a faster processing of the IP packets using the MPLS domain concept. In the access side, we have individual networks. For instance, it could be a PSTN or the ISDN network. It could be a fixed network or a broadband mobile network. Using these independent networks with the core requires some kind of help from the underlying signaling network and the media gateway network. The signaling network provides all the physical layer signals which are required to establish a call for the control layer that we have seen in the control nodes you can see. Now the control part that we have just seen in NGN is recognized as one of the most important entities in the NGN overall framework. And for that, the 3GPP standard as in release 8 has been adopted as the IP multimedia subsystem, the IMS, as the control nodes in the control part of the NGN. The ITUT recognizes this IP multimedia subsystem to be part of the NGN recommendations. And it is used for services which require the underlying underlying architecture for control signaling, such as the voice over IP if it is QS-based in particular.


My name is Grant Yateman and I'm a Navy veteran. One of the fortunate things about the military is that you are always surrounded by really good people, people that can have an impact, both from people that you're working for as well as people that are working for you or with you, whether it's a division officer or senior or junior enlisted, there's great people all around you that just with their positive attitude or work ethic drive you to be a better sailor. In the military, if you're not trusting the guy standing next to you, your partnership with one another isn't going to go very far. Your collective team isn't going to act as one unit and it only goes as far as the trust that you build with one another. There's a whole ton of management and I obviously was hands on with management night and day while I was in the Navy and that's kind of my bread and butter here. While you're in, you're dealing with a whole lot all the time. There's always things going on and you're managing whether it's your mission critical task at hand as well as upwards of 50 people. And with those 50 people, they obviously all have jobs that are going on so you need to make sure that all those pieces are in place and they're doing the things that they need to do in order to accomplish the mission. I was ready to get out not because I didn't like the Navy. I had a fantastic time while I was in and really did enjoy my service but knew that I was ready for the next step and with that, that set me up here very well for in the corporate environment because there's obviously not necessarily things that are happening out in the water but similar scenarios where you need to act on your feet and you need to make quick decisions. I think leadership is one of the primary things. I mean, being directly responsible for a division or an entire department or you know, over half the ship, that type of leadership can really translate into whatever else you're doing. Professionalism is, you know, people that join the service are kind of drilled that into them at an early stage and that I think for me is something that I'll carry with me for the rest of my life.