Miles McDonald

Guitarist 🎸 & VFX creator 📸
Sharing tips on improvisation, technique, & visual workflows
Break through creative plateaus

[Miles McDonald @milesmcdonald]

@Erdayastronaut It would be very high engagement. Why not? A lot more eyes on your channel.

[Miles McDonald @milesmcdonald]

@DJSnM It took me so long to learn how to kickflip. I eventually got it by holding onto the corner of a fence and keeping myself in the air as the board flipped under me to understand the motion.

[Miles McDonald @milesmcdonald]

@pemilo123 Anytime anyone has said some version of the phrase “You would’ve done the same for me” they turned out to be a narcissist.
Whenever I hear it now I keep a close eye on them.

[Miles McDonald @milesmcdonald]

No marketing team in sight at this company. Just pure weaponized autism. Wouldn't have it any other way.

[Jack Beyer @thejackbeyer]

The roadster demos were crazy af sure, but can we talk about the weird order it was all done in? Imo they obviously should’ve rolled it on stage first, then done 0-60, then the fleet jump, THEN the ramp. Felt like the “last thing” fell kinda flat. (Oh no my lobster is too buttery)

[Miles McDonald @milesmcdonald]

I'll be more impressed with the roadster going mach 0.5 at sea level. Drag scales with V^2 and power with v^3.

That's around 2,000 horsepower just to maintain speed.

[Marques Brownlee @MKBHD]

They really just got on stage and said this newly designed 4000+ pound car can do flips and go half the speed of sound (380+mph) and will ship in 2028. This is a prank, right?

[Miles McDonald @milesmcdonald]

Easy Tosin Abasi selective picking exercise below. I like to add some palm muting to this technique to get a more Nuno/EVH sound out of it.

Learn more of the techniques of your favorite players over at https://t.co/WlNcLuwPB3

[Miles McDonald @milesmcdonald]

A great lesson on Zakk Wylde pentatonic vocabulary.

Zakk deliberately crossed off every other shred technique so he wouldn’t get labeled as a clone. (Yngwie, Randy Rhodes, Dimebag, etc.) and maximized what he could do with the pentatonics.

His main licks and runs are described below.

Learn many more techniques like this at https://t.co/9Vkjbe3zGb

[Miles McDonald @milesmcdonald]

You see it when you run into a freak athlete in your home town/state that absolutely destroys everyone, then you find out they couldn't even come close to going professional.

[Matthew Herbert @HerbertMatthewJ]

People don’t realize just HOW MUCH better professional athletes are than “normal” people.

[Miles McDonald @milesmcdonald]

In 2013 I would get a Mexican pizza, 2 soft shells, a Doritos Locos taco, and a drink for $7 and change.

[Nostalgia @NostalgiaYZ]

20 year price comparison of popular menu items at Taco Bell.

[Miles McDonald @milesmcdonald]

@Mr_Husky1 The Theory of Everything
Season 2 Episodes 9 and 10 of Master of None

[Miles McDonald @milesmcdonald]

My friend's uncle was an elevator mechanic working in the north tower. He was supposed to be there that morning, but got so hammered watching this game the night before that he didn't wake up until 2pm with over 100 missed calls.

[Kevin Gallagher @KevG163]

25 years ago ...

12:18am in the East
September 11, 2001

[Teslaconomics @Teslaconomics]

I’ve got MAJOR media companies from around the world asking where I am in Austin right now.

Offering me $ thousands of dollars just to interview me about the Cybercab launch.

And all I got for them are two middle fingers.

Y’all weren’t fuckin with me and Tesla when there was nobody in the gym.

Now that the Cybercab is here, the whole world wants in, and suddenly everybody wants a seat at the table.

Nah bro… life doesn’t work like that.

[Miles McDonald @milesmcdonald]

I purchased my first $TSLA shares in 2014.

I’ve kept this clip saved since Tesla Autonomy Day (April 22, 2019) as a reminder to keep holding.

Back then the coverage was so relentlessly negative on Tesla I almost started to believe it, and it prevented me from investing even more. At the time I told myself “either Tesla is the next Enron, or the news is fake.”

What Elon was saying and what I was reading about the company were complete opposites.

6 months later on October 23, 2019, Tesla posts a surprise profit. Stock rips. Shorts go tits up.

That was the night it clicked “holy shit, the news really is fake”

From then on I stopped listening to the news. Just held.

I’ve been waiting 12 years for this day.

Send it 🚀

[Miles McDonald @milesmcdonald]

Been waiting for this day for 12 years $TSLA 🚀

[Sawyer Merritt @SawyerMerritt]

Can’t believe this day is finally here

[Miles McDonald @milesmcdonald]

@Thop_G 😂 Fantastic in the short term...

[Miles McDonald @milesmcdonald]

8 hours of quality sleep

[Hoo @Hoostethics]

ranking cognitive enhancers.

[Miles McDonald @milesmcdonald]

Friend of mine sounds exactly like Frank Sinatra. Insane talent. jared.sorce on Instagram.

[hb @h3xenbrenner2]

what about being sucked into a jet engine

[Miles McDonald @milesmcdonald]

I think the original "Saw" beats all of these. Didn't see that one coming at all.

[Cine Vichaar @Cine_vichaar]

Peak plot twists

[Miles McDonald @milesmcdonald]

The glasses throw gets me every time