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xoxoxoBruce

10-21-2017 01:16 AM

Musicians are Smarter

Learning to play an instrument makes you smarter.

limey

10-21-2017 08:36 AM

I know this. So does 'Toad. And a few others....

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Undertoad

10-21-2017 09:08 AM

"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.

Gravdigr

10-22-2017 01:01 PM

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*Bass-players excluded.:stickpoke

Elspode

11-03-2017 09:27 PM

I have played guitars since I was ten. I'm 61. I'm dumber than a bag of hammers.

Elspode

11-03-2017 09:33 PM

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Here's a picture of a younger, less fat me, with a guitar. Do I look smart?

xoxoxoBruce

11-03-2017 10:58 PM

You look stoned.

Gravdigr

11-05-2017 12:23 PM

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

Flint

11-22-2017 02:04 PM

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Originally Posted by Undertoad (Post 997406)

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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