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pesilat

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Originally posted by Seig
There are those of us that are healthy that are musically impaired as well.....

Amen to that! My sister got every ounce of musical talent in our family. I can't carry a tune in an airtight bucket.

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much of music can be taught...

in my experience, music itself is about 95% technique and 5% talent and natural aptitude.

for example, you can teach someone with absolutely no ear for it how to play piano very well. You teach them notes and chords and theory and where to put their fingers and when. However, you can't teach them how to play it excellently, because excellence comes from a love for the art, and the ability to really feel the music.

singing is a little different, but unless someone is tonedeaf (which is a medical diagnosis, not someone who just can't sing, but a true inability to distinguish between pitches) you can teach them how to sing the right notes at the right volume with the right words. what you can't teach is that little extra spark that comes from inside that makes that difference.

much of music can be learned in the same way math or kenpo can be, but in my experience, there's just something about it that has to be there already, because that little bit can't be taught.
 

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Originally posted by Seig
There are those of us that are healthy that are musically impaired as well.....

Right on Man.:D God didn't give me the talent to sing or dance. This is why I stick with martial arts.
 

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Originally posted by jfarnsworth
Right on Man.:D God didn't give me the talent to sing or dance. This is why I stick with martial arts.

If I am forced to dance then I do martial arts on the floor.

I get by, no real cool guy, but at least I am moving :D
 

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Originally posted by Seig
Reminds me of the Phil Collins song , I can't sing, I can't dance

That reminds me of the song ABACAB :D
 

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Every time I try to dance, a fairy spontaneously combusts.

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Originally posted by Cthulhu
Every time I try to dance, a fairy spontaneously combusts.

Cthulhu

:rofl: :rofl:

That is so funny. Thanks!
 
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Dacing is something you only do Tipsy or if your a women......:shrug:
 

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Women just have much better rythem when dancing. I just hate having to watch a guy dance on the dance floor.
 
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Originally posted by Seig
You watch guys on the dance floor? you're making me nervous :anic:

Me too! :(

But whats really annoying is when you are doing Kata's or Patterns or whatever your art does and the girl goes "Oh so its just like a dance!". I have to stop and tell her that if this was the case then I would actually be quite a good dancer :shrug:
 

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No I don't watch the guys. What I was referring to was the guys on the floor trying to impress all of the women on the floor. Hence trying to rub up on any and all women they can bouncing from one to the other.
 

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Originally posted by jfarnsworth
No I don't watch the guys. What I was referring to was the guys on the floor trying to impress all of the women on the floor. Hence trying to rub up on any and all women they can bouncing from one to the other.

Some guys Dance, othes buy them drinks, others yet will talk to them and appeal to their intellectual sides. All in all it is one Dance to try and get to another dance! ;)
 

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Originally posted by jfarnsworth
No I don't watch the guys. What I was referring to was the guys on the floor trying to impress all of the women on the floor. Hence trying to rub up on any and all women they can bouncing from one to the other.
Ok, now I know what you meant. Just waltz on up to them and Boot to the Groin
 

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