@voltronic

I'm embarrassed to admit I understand *maybe* 10% of the bingo card above 😓

My love of music is mostly visceral & almost entirely unmediated by intellect, though.

Not saying my ignorance is a good thing; just admitting to it.

@netspionage
Don't be embarrassed at all. Most of these things would only be heard during rehearsals. Maybe you'll have the opportunity to sing it someday. If you join up with a decent community choir, there's a good chance it might happen.

Everyone comes to their musical experience in their own way. All paths are true ones for those who walk them.

@voltronic

Yeah, gonna say...

I LOVE music, and life without it would be a mistake; that said, I've proven utterly incapable of *making* music - and not through lack of trying, believe me. The only instrument I've had even the remotest aptitude for is the piano...and even that, only barely...and out of a variety of beloved instruments. I have tried. Trust me.

As for singing...yeah, No, don't have the voice, can't hold a note or carry a tune. You'd find cats in boiling water more melodious 😬

@voltronic

I *would* say the sound of me singing has sent people BACK into therapy, though if I'm being honest, fairly certain none of those people were ever *IN* therapy before, so...it'd be technically untrue 🙄😂

@netspionage
Whenever people talk like this about their musical ability, I always say it's likely you never had the right teacher.

@voltronic
Agreed.
In my opinion, with some medical exceptions there is no such thing as tone deaf, only lazy teachers who can't be bothered to teach a student how to listen to music and adjust pitch accordingly.
My brother was told he was tone deaf. Then a passionate teacher put him in a choir. Changed his world.

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@voltronic
Addendum:
Percussion is music.
If you can clap or click your fingers in time with a tune, you ARE musical. Fact.
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@stueytheround @netspionage
Here's a decent mobile-friendly test for amusia.

https://www.themusiclab.org/quizzes/td

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Interesting. my microtonal identification needs some work.

@stueytheround @voltronic @netspionage

Bad teachers ruin civilizations.

@voltronic

Notably, as I love listening to music ever so much, I'm a huuuuuge music consumer, and have LOTS of respect for those with the talent to compose and/or play it, and even more for those like yourself who understand the "technical" aspects of it, which you rather obviously & abundantly possess.

I have loads of respect for you (I'm far too arrogant to idolize anyone: don't take it personally), which is to say I def. find your posts fascinating, though I can't claim to understand 100%.