In Reply to: RE: Question for Smart People, Lights ON or OFF posted by rwa3 on July 18, 2014 at 15:21:15:
If you smoke in the dark, watch out for errant seeds!
We did an experiment in seventh grade band, and it went like this: Pick an arbitrary number of beats (27). Get a tempo cue/count-in from the director, and after the 1 2 3 4, count silently with the lights on, then everyone clap on 27. Result? Everyone's cutting up, counting, distracting each other as to the tempo that was set, and the potentially unison clap becomes an as-expected polyrhythmic-at-best entrance. Now, repeat the test with the lights off. With the sense of sight removed, the adherence to tempo and entrance on 27 becomes acutely more accurate and more unison-like in comparison.
The moral? Eliminate sense of sight, and increase rhythmic and metric acuity as a result.
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- RE: Question for Smart People, Lights ON or OFF - michaelhigh 19:09:32 07/23/14 (0)