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Old 10-21-2017, 01:16 AM   #1
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Musicians are Smarter

Learning to play an instrument makes you smarter.

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Old 10-21-2017, 08:36 AM   #2
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I know this. So does 'Toad. And a few others....

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Old 10-21-2017, 09:08 AM   #3
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"The artistic and aesthetic aspects of learning to play a musical instrument are different from any other activity studied, including other arts."

HAH. Eff you, painters!!!


Music is mathematics. There is the obvious rhythm and time aspects, halves, quarters, eighths etc.

Then you find out that an octave is a doubling in frequency, and a fifth interval is 1.5x frequency, and your mind is blown. Notes are our subconscious appreciation of math.
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Old 10-22-2017, 01:01 PM   #4
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Old 11-03-2017, 09:27 PM   #5
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I have played guitars since I was ten. I'm 61. I'm dumber than a bag of hammers.
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Old 11-03-2017, 09:33 PM   #6
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Here's a picture of a younger, less fat me, with a guitar. Do I look smart?
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Old 11-03-2017, 10:58 PM   #7
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You look stoned.
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Old 11-05-2017, 12:23 PM   #8
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Very recently stoned.

As I will be soon.

Can't buy packaged beer til 1pm here on Sunday. Ya can get stinking drunk by 1pm at any bar, from 7am.

And ya can't get thirsty when ya getting stoned.
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Old 11-22-2017, 02:04 PM   #9
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Music is mathematics. There is the obvious rhythm and time aspects, halves, quarters, eighths etc.

Then you find out that an octave is a doubling in frequency, and a fifth interval is 1.5x frequency, and your mind is blown. Notes are our subconscious appreciation of math.
This book: This Is Your Brain on Music

Go read this book. Trust me on this.

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Levitin's fascination with the mystery of music and the study of why it affects us so deeply is at the heart of this book...
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...he discusses neurobiology, neuropsychology, cognitive psychology, empirical philosophy, Gestalt psychology, memory theory, categorization theory, neurochemistry, and exemplar theory in relation to music theory and history...
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