nacoran
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Mar 23, 2015
8:57 PM
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We had a bass player in my first band who was just learning. His sister is actually very musical, but when he was a kid he had some problems with his hearing, and he was nearly deaf for several years before the doctors sorted it out (at which point he regained normal hearing). I think he missed out on some of the formative learning, the Twinkle Twinkle Little Stars and such that left him at a real disadvantage. (On top of that, he didn't want to learn theory). He never made it past having to memorize parts the guitar player taught him and he'd often have to relearn parts he'd been taught a dozen times before. (Meanwhile, his sister was able to pick up any instrument and be able to play melodies in a couple minutes).
I've met other people who just can't music out. In some cases I'm sure it's tone deafness or some other musical learning disability. Some of them really enjoy playing though. (I've known a couple guys who learned theory and could write or play something really decent- there is even computer software that can do that now), but you could tell it was mechanical, not musical, because they couldn't tell if their instrument was out of key.)
(Huh, I just did a nesting statement with parenthesis!)
Having a pretty serious LD I've always have been fascinated with the way people learn things.
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