Learning to play an instrument makes you smarter.
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I know this. So does 'Toad. And a few others....
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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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[SIZE="1"]*[/SIZE]Bass-players excluded.:stickpoke
I have played guitars since I was ten. I'm 61. I'm dumber than a bag of hammers.
Here's a picture of a younger, less fat me, with a guitar. Do I look smart?
Very recently stoned.:yesnod:
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.:headshake
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.
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...
...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...