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Post subject: Playing Guitar Makes You Smarter
Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 10:42 am
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than people who cannot make an "f" chord. That's true especially for cancer survivors who had a lot of chemo and seem a lot like Jim from Taxi in person.

Hey maybe I seem a little scattered sometimes. Okay, a lot scattered. Okay, all the time. However, I'm officially not demented, and I play my excellent Highway One ('06 upgrade) with Texas Specials Strat better and better.

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn1 ... ad_dn13750

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Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 4:13 pm
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I'm not quite sure what your point is here?

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Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 4:17 pm
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I don't know what it is either. That's my point. Wait there's another one too. See, despite the pain and the damage and the endless Blues raining down like hail on cancer survivors, we keep going and have music. See, music goes on and on through the trials and tribulations, even expressing it and working it out, and so that Kaiser commercial with the cancer survivor buying the guitar is good and true. No matter what the chemo does to the insulation on our nerves, the Strat is there to express our music.

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It is said that playing an instrument in general (okay, not a tamborine) makes people smarter, more focused, and quicker. Let's face it, playing a musical instrument forces your brain to do some complex mathematics (scales, modes, chords, transposition, etc.), understand some complex notation (almost learning a new language), and then you have to trigger some part of your body to do things (fingers/wrist/arm on guitar for instance) in very precise ways.

It's rare that you hear someone call a musician 'dumb'. Though, before the Baroque era, music was more or less considered an art/craft like painting, sculpture, masonry, blacksmithing. These people were higher than peasants but lower than nobility. Arse-holes who have everything and are dipshiites always get to place themselves at the top - intelligent or not... ;)


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Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 4:28 pm
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strat58cat wrote:
I don't know what it is either. That's my point. Wait there's another one too. See, despite the pain and the damage and the endless Blues raining down like hail on cancer survivors, we keep going and have music. See, music goes on and on through the trials and tribulations, even expressing it and working it out, and so that Kaiser commercial with the cancer survivor buying the guitar is good and true. No matter what the chemo does to the insulation on our nerves, the Strat is there to express our music.


Well, I have to agree with you there. When I had kidney cancer I spent more time playing then when I didn't. Music is a great escape and avenue for emotional release. Actually, I'd have to say cancer made me a better guitar player. I appreciate the art much more now.

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I am an 11 year cancer survivor, and all chemo did was take away most of my energy which I have never regained, and make me feel hot all the time now. It also showed me and my family who our friends really are.


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I am an 11 year cancer survivor, and all chemo did was take away most of my energy which I have never regained, and make me feel hot all the time now. It also showed me and my family who our friends really are.


Oh yeah man, I know what you mean. I've talked to quite a few survivors and they all agree that some people you thought were friends just disappear from your life. They leave ya high and dry. Like you've suddenly got cooties. I wrote them off and told em where to go when they came back once they saw I was gonna live.

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Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 7:37 pm
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Hopefully you guys stay cancer free and get to feeling better and better everyday. Guitar playing really does soothe the soul!


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Like you've suddenly got cooties.


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I can't make 'F' chords either, i used to be able to - but my hand got mangled after going through some glas at college.

Cut up my tendons and nerves so much that i have to use my thumb and i can just about use my little finger, mostley left out of the way, but got hardley any feeling in it and half my ring finger (right handed) too.

so i kinda play mostley 3 fingered and thumbed - still get a full sound though, but suprisingley i am a better guitarist now than before the accident - go figure!

Ka-Boom-Boom!!

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Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2008 6:18 am
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I had a friend with cancer and went through chemo with it. It seemed to make her pretty darn nauseous and tired.


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My partner had skin cancer, she's ok now - i hope - so i kinda have an idea.

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I can't make 'F' chords either, i used to be able to - but my hand got mangled after going through some glas at college.

Cut up my tendons and nerves so much that i have to use my thumb and i can just about use my little finger, mostley left out of the way, but got hardley any feeling in it and half my ring finger (right handed) too.

so i kinda play mostley 3 fingered and thumbed - still get a full sound though, but suprisingley i am a better guitarist now than before the accident - go figure!

Ka-Boom-Boom!!


The cool part is you didn't give up after such a nasty injury. You are a true guitar player.

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Posted: Thu May 01, 2008 9:10 am
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A lot of people here have overcome a lot of bad stuff here, and found out about how it is - standing at the Crossroads, tryin' to flag a ride, and nobody seem to know me, everyone just passed by. The ones that passed by - 'bye, 'bye. It turned out - yeah maybe we got a relic treatment - but we didn't die.

Life's good. My three month old boy loves Clapton. If he's crying, all I have to do is play Clapton's Little Wing with Sheryl Crow and Sanborn on Google video and he goes right to sleep. I think he prefers the good audio on that one, but I back it up with the Budokan version too. Clapton's tone is so beautiful, and his playing so perfect, even a three month old gets it.

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Wierd but understandable what was said above about cancer survivors and cooties.

'Felt the same thing after being widowed years ago. Married people tended to avoid ...'fraid they might catch 'it.'

Like nost art forms, guitar playing has the potential to make one more intelligent. But there's that open-to-new learning-and the world thing as well. 'Have encountered plenty of guitar players who were as shallow as a sidewalk rain puddle and dumb as two stones and a stick.


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