To each his own. I prefer accuracy and truth over attitude/bedside manners. We all have different goals I guess.
I've been in the position of being an expert on some subject matter on something where someone with 50% of the knowledge talks loudly and over me. It's incredibly annoying and it takes away any personal desire to share my knowledge. It's sad to me that those with the knowledge are bullied out of sharing what they know because they don't satisfy everyone's personal "niceness" quotient.
The subject here, transcription of basic drum parts is something I'm weak at and I'm just happy I got to learn something from experts. It was annoying to have to read someone go on and on for posts and paragraphs backpedaling, justifying their incorrect response and then not having the humility to bow out from the conversation and leave it to those who obviously know more. I've been around these people in class and group settings and they slow down the progress for everyone. I fully understand and sympathize with those who have to battle the classic internet problem of "let me interrupt your expertise with my enthusiasm." It's tiring.
Good:
I feel your take on this is maybe not correct. Here's a few specific reasons. I would read it as "X" and interpret those note values as "X"; more than happy to expand on that if you need more help!
Bad:
I know you don¨t know what is correct, that¨s why is so funny
you keep writing and writting, hahah. Don¨t worry, you are not alone in this, in fact, EVERY thread is like that...
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There's a big difference between being helpful and supportive, and this. All at once, he dissed our forum(including 'every thread'), and all the members, while laughing outwardly at someone he feels is incorrect... AND THEN (unless I missed something) NOT ACTUALLY HELPING beyond saying "wrong".
He then went ahead and later posted that same video of his playing from the 80's we've all seen 20 times because he brings it out any time he wants to show off his superiority over the rest of us amateurs who weren't on a TV special in 1986... Continuing on to the chest beating "WHERE'S YOUR VIDEO OF YOU ON TV IN THE 80's? HUH? WHERE IS IT?"... Which honestly that's another recurring theme with him. It comes across as arrogant, aggressive and focused on the wrong aspects of being a musician. It's entirely possible for someone to understand theory well or like to talk music but not have a video of them blasting out chops that would impress Alex.
To be clear, Alex has some killer jazz chops and I'm sure he understands theory well too, I like that he's around. That said, like Larry and a few others here I've seen some behavior that I would deem as disrespectful, and I think he could be more helpful and less attitude-y. For sure there are probably culture, disposition, and language differences that can make for misunderstandings, but I feel like as adults we should be able to move past things like that quickly without any devolving, laughing at each other in a mean way, or being generally unhelpful or trying to cast shade on one another.
I will NOT be getting further into this as a discussion, and I'm only chiming in because I've noticed a pattern like Larry did, and I would much prefer if we all used respect and helpfulness as the first resort. Trust me, I like to argue just as much if not more than anyone else here but everyone self included should watch how they phrase their arguments and always refrain from name calling and condescension in ALL directions.
This will conclude my condescending rant about condescending ranters.