Why is it that I can talk and do almost ANYTHING at the same time... But I can't sing and play mandolin simultaneously?
Hell, I can do seven different things at once at home... Can't seem to get the sing and play thing down. My brain has only one musical track at a time, and singing melodic line and playing chords just doesn't seem to jibe... *sigh*
Then again, I can't talk and play at the same time either. Unless I sing what I'm saying with the same notes that I'm playing. Go fig. I hate that.
Hmm. I can sing and play guitar/mandolin chords at the same time depending on how the accompaniment relates rythmically. If the accompaniment is a countermelody or a bass line, my voice tends to follow it instead of the notes I'd intended to sing. Talking and playing is something I can sometimes pull off, depending on what I'm playing, but my speech tends to come out really choppy when I do so.
It doesn't usually feel like I'm concentrating so hard that I wouldn't have extra brain left over for speech, but I guess there's more going on under the hood than it feels like when I play.
But I know what you mean, and yah, that's interesting. I used to carry on simultaneous conversations in IRC (in-channel and private), a MUD, and quick-turnaround email while talking to someone else in the room and reading news, but it's difficult to coordinate anything other than walking/dancing or having sex while playing guitar, and one's partner tends to get kind of disturbed/annoyed when one plays guitar during sex unless one is having sex with another slightly warped musician at the time.
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Hell, I can do seven different things at once at home... Can't seem to get the sing and play thing down. My brain has only one musical track at a time, and singing melodic line and playing chords just doesn't seem to jibe... *sigh*
Then again, I can't talk and play at the same time either. Unless I sing what I'm saying with the same notes that I'm playing. Go fig. I hate that.
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It doesn't usually feel like I'm concentrating so hard that I wouldn't have extra brain left over for speech, but I guess there's more going on under the hood than it feels like when I play.
But I know what you mean, and yah, that's interesting. I used to carry on simultaneous conversations in IRC (in-channel and private), a MUD, and quick-turnaround email while talking to someone else in the room and reading news, but it's difficult to coordinate anything other than walking/dancing or having sex while playing guitar, and one's partner tends to get kind of disturbed/annoyed when one plays guitar during sex unless one is having sex with another slightly warped musician at the time.