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Interestingly enough I can’t do accents or impressions either, or tell slight differences in accents apart. I guess listening is an actual talent.
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Another data point: I find the harmonium (pumped reed organ) extremely grating. It’s an equal-tempered western instrument sorta hacked into service as an approximately just-tempered accompaniment instrument in semi-classical and pop Indian music.
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Classical purists hate it and will only use a just-tempered instrument like the tanpura for accompaniment (these things are used as scale-setting drones) but I don’t have the refined ear to have such subtle preferences. Yet I dislike the harmonium at a visceral level.
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Hmm. Duffy (begging you for mercy), some Adele, some Maroon 5, Dance Monkey (dance for me) seemed to hook me in a vaguely “raga” way. Oddly enough no conscious fusion attempts like George Harrison’s or John McLaughlin seems to hook me at all. I find that stuff dull.
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are there examples of such songs that come to mind?
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I agree with recommending slide guitar as an alternative to twelve-tone equal temperament. But maybe all fusion projects are an uncanny valley for you? Maybe you'd like straight blues slide better? Like "Dark was the Night" on the Voyager Golden Record? youtu.be/71dlO3ceX14
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What about John Coltrane's "My Favorite Things"? It stretches western harmony & twelve-tone equal temperament in a few ways: The bass plays a drone. The piano also drones with unique harmony. Coltrane plays "sheets of sound." It's both major & minor. youtu.be/ej6gfL4yF4E
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