Mark Priest

Music History, Theory, & Composition. Piano. Education. Psychology. Investing. Selectively social.

[Mark Priest @PriMarkMus]

1/ In an ideal musical environment (nurture), youthful songwriters would NATURALLY grow up into legitimate composers. They're now stunted by unnatural emphasis on commercial "songs" to the exclusion of other musical forms and genres. #classicalmusic

[Mark Priest @PriMarkMus]

It's nonsense to claim to care about people who don't value what you value. Care for those who would share the same high values as yourself. Don't let the valueless extract your resources.

[Mark Priest @PriMarkMus]

Do you wish it could be? $XMR

[Mark Priest @PriMarkMus]

When your 5 closest friends' networth reaches $100k (each), so will yours.

Fact of Life: You become like the people with whom you associate the most.

[Mark Priest @PriMarkMus]

@ThrillaRilla369 Era, and err.

[Emmanuel Lobijo (The Rainmaker) @Elobijo]

🎬 CASTING CALL

Auditions are now open for THE LINE BETWEEN, an upcoming South Sudanese feature film produced by @Jollyofthenile & supported by Cravens

📅 3–5 June
📍 Mahalna Creative Space, Juba
Apply:
https://t.co/2YV4YcRD1X

#TheLineBetweenFilm #CastingCall #SouthSudanCinema

[Mark Priest @PriMarkMus]

The privacy coin nobody talks about (yet) $ARRR

[Pirate Chain @PirateChain]

#PirateChain Podcast | May 2026

Major progress continues across the Pirate Chain ecosystem, with new privacy features, wallet improvements, expanded testing, and growing community outreach.

⚙️ Single Payment Disclosure
⚙️ Adaptive sync/recovery improvements
⚙️ Better performance on slow networks
⚙️ Improved reorg handling
⚙️ Mobile UX fixes
⚙️ iOS TestFlight launch
⚙️ @SallyMayweather $ARRR sponsorship

For even more Pirate Chain news, updates, and development progress, be sure to read the May Monthly Newsletter. Link in bio.

[Mark Priest @PriMarkMus]

$XMR is at $360, $BCH is $300, approximately. One of these can't be traded on Robinhood: the one that is up 10% from 12mos ago.

[Mark Priest @PriMarkMus]

There are international piano competitions. So, why not set up a piano groups classroom? Call it a "piano gym," daily piano practicing sessions are "workouts," and piano class is a training session with the coach. Youths love competition.
(Piano Olympics?) 🙂

[Mark Priest @PriMarkMus]

For the past few centuries until now, most university music degree curricula have flowed from the genius of J. S. Bach. Yet Bach didn't attend university. As an orphan in need of an income stream, he sang, played violin, tested church organs, wrote and taught music.

[Mark Priest @PriMarkMus]

Name a respected classical composer who studied the discipline of COUNTERPOINT, including canon and fugue, as a prerequisite to composition. I'll start:

J. S. Bach
Joseph Haydn
Ludwig van Beethoven
Richard Wagner
Johannes Brahms
Anton Bruckner
Richard Strauss

[Mark Priest @PriMarkMus]

@Censored4sure One of the positivist positive people here.

[Mark Priest @PriMarkMus]

When they treat you like you're invisible, act the part. Disappear completely from their lives.

[Mark Priest @PriMarkMus]

Every decade or so, dark clouds will fill the economic skies, and they will briefly rain gold. When downpours of that sort occur, it's imperative that we rush outdoors carrying washtubs, not teaspoons.

— Warren Buffett (in 2009!)
😁

[Mark Priest @PriMarkMus]

Those who promote anxiety chiefly to make more money on some "solution" they are selling — that's coercion and dishonorable.

[Mark Priest @PriMarkMus]

Learn by doing.
Math requires WRITING to solve algebraic equations, graphs, and geometric problems. On a page.
English requires WRITING —essays, poems, stories—words on a page.
Music requires playing, singing, and WRITING notes on a page.
Do the doozy.

[Mark Priest @PriMarkMus]

USE CASE
Students graduate after mastering basic math and language skills, but they're unable to read and write musical staff notation or play an instrument. 🎹 🎶
Music is everywhere, 24/7, yet by omission, we condone and even encourage music illiteracy.

[Mark Priest @PriMarkMus]

@Luizmd They like to practice

[Mark Priest @PriMarkMus]

It seems that, in the commercial music industry, the "West" (a misnomer) mainly promotes a competition of the incompetent. Audiences are pseudo-tribal groups tricked by media hype into following fabricated "artists," none of whom can read a note of music.

[Mark Priest @PriMarkMus]

1 $XMR = 551,382 $NGN ( #Nigeria )

[Monero Africa🌄 @MoneroAfrica]

#MONERO'S PURCHASING POWER PARITY.

1 $ZEC = 86,541 $KES ( #Kenya )

1 $XMR = 51,940 $KES

1 $XMR = 551,382 $NGN ( #Nigeria )

1 $ZEC = 917,108 $NGN

1 $ZEC = 11,019 $ZAR ( #SouthAfrica )

1 $XMR = 6,625 $ZAR

[Mark Priest @PriMarkMus]

@Censored4sure Makes sense