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B_of_H
06-08-2009, 10:06 PM
has anyone else noticed this? It's weird. Me best guess is that at a certain point there is too much information coming in and their brain just doesn't comprehend the notes. Somehow it's "the same thing over and over" but i'm hearing a bunch of crazy changes and witty variations. :dunno
B_of_H
06-08-2009, 10:18 PM
recent examples:

frank zappa - "same stuff over and over"

joe bonamassa is 'repetitive' (from a big ABB fan)

jazz - "it just all sounds like the same song to me" (rock and electronica fan)

:lol
KRosser
06-08-2009, 10:22 PM
People say all kinds of things that I think it's best not to worry about.
B_of_H
06-08-2009, 10:46 PM
People say all kinds of things that I think it's best not to worry about.

lol

i'm just curious in an academic kinda sense. I've heard things like this all my life.

I once played Mahivishnu orchestra for some friends and this is basically the response i got.
Gene
06-08-2009, 11:40 PM
According to a study done scientifically by one of the more important music pyschologist of the 20th century, majority of people will not be able to hear music in a perceptive manner. This is innate and hence, not their fault. They can not hear the difference in classical music for instance. They think it all sounds the same. Same with jazz. No matter how much they listen to say a 2nd movement of Mozart's 40th Symphony, they can't remember it and will not recognize it later.

Be happy if you are one of the few that can hear music.
TommiK
06-09-2009, 12:28 AM
According to a study done scientifically by one of the more important music pyschologist of the 20th century, majority of people will not be able to hear music in a perceptive manner. This is innate and hence, not their fault. They can not hear the difference in classical music for instance. They think it all sounds the same. Same with jazz. No matter how much they listen to say a 2nd movement of Mozart's 40th Symphony, they can't remember it and will not recognize it later.

Be happy if you are one of the few that can hear music.

That's really interesting. You wouldn't happen to remember who did this study or have link to it or something. I'd love to read it.
KRosser
06-09-2009, 12:56 AM
lol

i'm just curious in an academic kinda sense. I've heard things like this all my life.

I once played Mahivishnu orchestra for some friends and this is basically the response i got.

Yeah I hear ya - since I don't share that viewpoint at all I have a hard time caring enough to figure it out
rob2001
06-09-2009, 06:17 AM
Anything beyond 3 chords and a hook would require a listener to stop whatever they were doing and make listening the activity. Some would consider the act of actually listening to a piece of music a non-activity, like some consider watching TV a waste of time.
TNJ
06-09-2009, 07:38 AM
Ostinato?

S/
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StompBoxBlues
06-09-2009, 07:48 AM
People say all kinds of things that I think it's best not to worry about.

I LIKE this statement!

:BEER
mouldynudger
06-09-2009, 08:25 AM
has anyone else noticed this? It's weird. Me best guess is that at a certain point there is too much information coming in and their brain just doesn't comprehend the notes. Somehow it's "the same thing over and over" but i'm hearing a bunch of crazy changes and witty variations. :dunno

I have honestly never heard anyone say that.

Why would it matter anyway? I would regard it as a copmpliment.

Much of my favourite music actually is "the same thing over and over".


Damian.