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On 5/1/2017 at 11:10 PM, GTR-N1 said:

Musical instruments I think, are really good for both sides of the brain: not just the music-related hemisphere.
That's because on most instruments, the left hand (right brain) needs to know what the right hand (left brain) is doing; and yet work independently at the same time.
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Terry,

Fascinating thinking about this dynamic over different instrument types too - woodwind or piano for instance, where the hands work together to produce notes and chords, in contrast to stringed instruments where one hand (usually the left for right handed players) leads the right. So which requires more dexterity? The fretboard hand or the hand playing? Gonna guess the hand playing just because we tend to use our dominant hand for it.

Never thought about the synergy required between the two hemispheres. Plenty of positives for learning and keeping the mind well trained I'm sure, and crossover of the creative side with the logical - but to get slightly philosophical - could there be any possible negatives from the hemispheres working together in such a way? Confused neural pathways etc.? TOO open minded? Haha...

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13 hours ago, Scoobygt said:

Been playing guitar for a while now, and I’ve got a pretty basic setup, nothing too fancy. Just a cheap Strat knockoff and a small practice amp, but it gets the job done!

What's your favourite piece to play?

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I'm a lifelong home drummer, was in a couple of bands as a teenager/early 20's then moved to Japan and didn't play at all until 2019 when my missus and I were invited to check out the band room upstairs at a restaurant cafe here in JP. They had a full acoustic drum kit and they let me have a bash for about 20 mins. I went away from there wondering how I could not play for 19 years.... Missus bought me a e-drum kit a few weeks later (Yamaha DTX402) which is basic but lets me play at home in my tiny Japanese house. 

Also have an Epiphone Les Paul and little Vox amp and delay pedal I bought for the missus because she wanted to learn to play the guitar, but she never got into it. That was about 8 years ago. I taught myself to play some 80's U2 song riffs like the Fly solo, etc and some other things but being a drummer I don't really have the dexterity in the fingers lol. Ham fisted if you will. So I kind of just mess around with the guitar rather than try to seriously play complete songs.

My son on the other hand inherited all my side of the family's musical talent and is a brilliant classical pianist at 16 years old. He'll go on to do something in the music industry here for sure once he finished his schooling. I got him a Yamaha NU1XA hybrid piano earlier this year.

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3 hours ago, defari said:

Do these count? Turntablist / drum n bass dj for 20 years

 

Perhaps not as actual musical instrument. It does at least work the same areas of the brain, so it is close.

I'm a frustrated guitarist. I have an '84 Ibanez Roadstar ii (RS430) that I bought in 1984 to play in my highschool band, The Animal Sons of Vegetable Mothers. We knew how to play 1 thing completely and about 20 things at ~10%. Was mostly an excuse to jam and f**k around. It's black on black, rosewood fretboard, Pro Rock'r bridge (which is a very good Floyd Rose tremolo system with locking at both ends of the string).

It has spent the majority of the last 40 years stashed away. My daughter keeps threatening to steal it. She's in the middle of a classical guitar degree and has taught herself to play piano and bass in her spare seconds, which has already lead her to steal her ex-boyfriend's bass (and a lovely tube amp that I now have to replace all the tubes in to stop the dreadful noise it's currently making). So she has form in this area and needs to be watched - or at least the guitar needs to be watched! I might move it so she can't find it.

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On 04/11/2024 at 9:53 AM, defari said:

Do these count? Turntablist / drum n bass dj for 20 years

 

Would like to see more of this set up.

(Mrs has a set of decks we need to set back up, she's learning).

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