Metaphor vs Reality

VetPsychWars · Posted: Thu Mar 19, 2009 7:13 pm Post subject: Metaphor vs Reality

I wrote a big stupid rant here last night.

Reading it again this morning, eh.

Basically I said that people were using the wrong science to describe what happens when you play.

That's still true, but as long as you can teach people to play and they learn, I guess that's all that matters.

Tom
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fraserhutch · Posted: Fri Mar 20, 2009 12:59 am Post subject:

I'm an engineer by day and it doesn't bother me in the least. Not at all. I have yet to feel the need to parade my training into the mix. Granted, my engineering training is as a software engineer, with a physics and maths background, but I perfectly follow the arguments going on and the only conclusion I can come to is that there are people here who just have to be right no matter what, regardless of whether it actually adds anything to the converstation, and who apparently cannot concede that there may be many ways to approach a problem.

Maybe it's that I have degrees in both te engineering and music field(granted, only a Bsc) and have lived in both worlds. Dunno.

Bottom line is, who cares? (besides the painfully obvious, of course. Now, if any of these guys file for a patent, have at it.
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tptfrbrains · Posted: Fri Mar 20, 2009 5:32 am Post subject:

I'll have to say that although I don't know what specific thread prompted this rant, I myself am guilty of applying false science through bad analogy in teaching my students.
The funny thing is, they all keep getting jobs.
But I am glad that you're right, Tom.

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Nonsense Eliminator · Posted: Fri Mar 20, 2009 6:24 am Post subject:

I wonder if that was the same rant I've been composing in my brain for about the last three years?
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tptfrbrains · Posted: Fri Mar 20, 2009 6:37 am Post subject:

But Richard, you were sensible enough not to post it.

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Nonsense Eliminator · Posted: Fri Mar 20, 2009 8:13 am Post subject:

A.N.A.Mendez · Posted: Fri Mar 20, 2009 8:48 am Post subject:

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ConnArtist · Posted: Sat Mar 21, 2009 2:49 pm Post subject:

Heavy caps are voodoo! Reversed leadpipes are voodoo! It's all in your head people!!! (**Ducks for cover**)

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VetPsychWars · Posted: Sat Mar 21, 2009 3:14 pm Post subject:

No one has yet showed me where I can get heavy caps.

Tom

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Craig Swartz · Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2009 11:33 am Post subject:

Forget the damn "science", if you're actually making music, it's an art. Most people never get around to making music. You'll know if you ever do...