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Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

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Few experiences are more gratifying then the moment when the song soars off the page and sticks firmly in my ear.

I'm a thirty-some year old beginner musician (playing for a little over a year). I wish I started playing much sooner, but I'm glad that I'm learning to play now. I've often heard that learning to play music is good for your brain. To me, this has become a self-evident truth. I swear that I can feel physical changes in my brain happening in real time. The best way I can describe it is the uncanny feeling of connecting cables—the snap as the connectors lock together—inside my head.

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[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Im by no means a musician or artist. Its toward the bottom of my natural abilities. Its incredible to me though and like magic. Which is how come I think I like fantasy stories / mythology with magic as music as it seems like such a natural way for magic to work.

[–] justineie_bobeanie@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Music as magic is a wonderful motif! I saw an image post circulate that suggested using photos of orchestra conductors as visual reference for drawing spellcasters. The image spoke for itself: the degree of focused intensity and direction in their posture fits the concept perfectly.

I never really felt like the "creative" type; that was always my dad and my brother. I've always been more interested in the "analytical" minded subject: mathematics, natural sciences, computer programming and logic.

Ironically, my journey in music really began after I chose to cut contact with my dad, arguably the biggest musical influence in my life beginning from early childhood. I take this as spiritual validation that I made the correct choice leaving behind his narcissistic bullying and abuse.

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 2 points 1 day ago

funny thing is I like being in choruses but I consider the conductor to be the real muscician and im more the instrument. I prefer ones that use solfage as my music reading is pants (I know long and short and go up and down) and there needs to be someone in my section who is good as I can't match pitch to the piano but I can to another voice.