I have liked music very much since I was a teenager. I spent many hours late at night in Soulseek chat rooms talking about and sharing music with my online friends. So, I tend to just have some music floating around in my head on any given day. But, I never learned to play any instrument, or use any digital audio software. It just didn't catch my interest.

My wife learned to play piano as a kid, so we happen to have a keyboard sitting around in our apartment. One day I was bored so I decided to just see whether I could figure out how to play some random song that I was thinking about right then. I found I was easily able to reconstitute a piano version of whatever melody I was thinking of, just by brute-forcing which notes were which, given a lot of patience. So [...]

The original text contained 1 footnote which was omitted from this narration.

---

First published:
May 15th, 2024

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/EHRXKxk2YMKa7oGaw/why-you-should-learn-a-musical-instrument

---

Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

“Why you should learn a musical instrument” by cata

LessWrong (30+ Karma)