Great to hear from you, blazintoes! Hoping your recovery is complete, or at least on a super path! How many songs can you play with just those 2 chords, or is that just rhetorical?blazintoes wrote:Fun thread.
Coming back from a TBI (Traumatic Brain Injury) I could't process music. It was very confusing. Sometimes I'd hear just the guitar or drums and my brain wouldn't put it all together. I turned on 99.5 one of my favorite stations and it all sounded like noise but I'd keep trying because I didn't understand why something I love, music, was now foreign. It took several months for me but the first song I could listen in its entirety and process was by this girl Maggie Rogers called Alaska, check it out:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNWsW6c6t8g
I love this song and all her stuff is equally softly weird. There's something about a woman's voice in a band that seems to always float on top of the melody that my brain tends to appreciate. Old and new brain.
As far as my favorites my mix includes all genres and I tend to add favorites based on good memories so Alaska reminds me of coming back. Yesterday my shuffle mix played Nine Inch Nails followed by Ella Fitzgerald and that took me back to my wild child days.
You'd think I'd get some newly acquired savant-ism with the brain injury so I picked up my guitar and still could only strum the E and A cords. Bummer. But do you know how many songs you can play if you only know these two cords?
