This is why I play music for hours most days and play 4 gigs a month plus go to jam sessions where the brain gets a workout following other players on songs I often don’t know.
Good to know. Playing music? Even better! I’ve played electric guitar for close to 60 years. I also play some drums and percussion. I recently bough a conga drum, which my wife encouraged me to do. I’ve been learning a number of traditional Afro-Cuban beats and patterns. I decided to get a second conga drum, which honestly I didn’t really NEED, but I told myself— and my wife— that learning new things helps to keep you mentally sharp.... she agreed! Now THAT, guys, is an awesome wife!
Guess we will need to crank up the Victrola.😉
Ask yourself why humans have always had such an insatiable desire to listen to frequency sound waves crafted in pleasing arrangements, if such is not the language of the soul?
Lonely children need more music.
I have a dedicated listening room in a literal bomb shelter under my pool house (bomb shelter built by prior owner).
Spent far too much time correcting absorption of frequencies, reflections, dispersion, etc.
And far too much money on obscure components.
Sounds sublime.
My wife hates it because there is no talking in the listening room.
Probably helps with dementia because routing of cables was a serious mental exercise.
Hah - I’m ahead of the curve (grin).
Couple hours a day minimum - Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix, Kristofferson, CCR, Krokus, Bonamassa, Grand Funk RR, Hagar, Joe Walsh, others, occasional Tchaikovsky, Beethoven.
Yeah me seventies....
I’m reminded of a touching video I once saw of an old Black man in a nursing home who was non-conversant and almost non-responsive. His family members told his caregivers that in his youth, the man had really loved music, so they got the idea to find some recordings of the music the man had listened to when he was young and put some headphones on the man so he could listen to them. Immediately the man’s face changed; he smiled from ear to ear, started singing along and tapping his feet. It was really amazing to see.
Rick Beato believes that exposing babies/young kids to jazz helps them gain perfect pitch. There is something about music and the brain, many musicians are also brilliant, and vice versa, many brilliant people studied music.
We listen to classical music every morning. Good!
That explains why I have no dementia at age 85.
But I think it is more due to relentless daily exercise.
All of that is well and good, until you start losing your hearing.
Fire up a doobie and crank up the Doors.
I love me some John Cage, especially 4′33″. It’s best on vinyl.
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I bet learning to play music is very beneficial too. I took up one of the more complicated instruments out there in my 50s and by 1 or 2 hours of practice I feel exhausted.
My husband must be the exception to the rule.
I have 4 streaming services; Spotify Family, Qobuz and Amazon Music and Sirius XM. I sold almost all my albums.
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