Listening to music on purpose after a long time. You guys do this everyday? Damn. 🧐
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Used to listen/collect CDs at midwit levels of interest/taste until about 20y ago when shift to mp3s broke the habit. Used to think I have musical anhedonia but I do get in the mood once every few years, and rarely a song on the radio (wife listens constantly) will catch my ear
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I have a new theory now. I’m the musical equivalent of monolingual. My brain got so wired so early to the just-tempered scale, I fundamentally can’t get into chromatic scale music except at a shallow intellectual level, and I lack the natural “ear” to be fluent in 2 scales.
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I think you'll like 's fascinating posts about how blues musicians bend pitches away from western 12-tone equal temperament, so they sound more like just intonation scales.
This supports your thesis and your tastes:
ethanhein.com/wp/2021/the-bl
ethanhein.com/wp/2014/blues-
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