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What is something other people seem to grasp easily that eludes you? (lemmy.world)
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For me it's time signatures in music. I grew up playing instruments, played in several orchestras, etc. But no matter how many times someone tries to explain time signatures to me, it makes no sense. I don't understand why people place such importance on it. To me, notes have a pitch and a duration, maybe some dynamics. That's it. I don't understand why people try to needlessly complicate it. It doesn't give you anything.

My wife will hear a song and go "Oh neat, it's in 5/8." And I'm like "How tf do you know that, and why does it matter?"

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[–] 2 points 1 month ago (1 child)

Those people that seem to do that, how many are they? How many are there that don't/can't do that? Or more specially, what is the share of people that have such a busy live? Do you perhaps simply only see those outliers and all the normal/average people are not like that but you simply don't see it?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    I do wonder if theres some sort of presentation bias or something. Ive only seen 2 homes that are worse than mine in my whole life, but I'm not sure people with unkept houses are big on having visitors.

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