We have rhythm

[gwand]

Scientists Played Bach to Sleeping Newborns and Discovered They Can Track Rhythm Just 48 Hours After Birth

Newborns arrive ready to predict the beat, but melody is a skill learned later.

www.zmescience.com

 

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What if you played them some Lynryd Skynyrd ?

 

[Rusty_Shackleford]

 

[gwand]

What if you played them some Lynryd Skynyrd ?

If it ain’t baroque, don’t fix it!

 

[GaryE]

I saw Lynrd Skynrd before the plane crash. It was one long set as an opening act for a band that turned out to be worse. Not my best teenaged ticket purchasing success.

But those babies have it down. Who could ask for anything more?

 

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I can sing “ Gimme Three Steps “ . I’ve got it memorized .

 

[jaylach]

I saw Lynrd Skynrd before the plane crash. It was one long set as an opening act for a band that turned out to be worse. Not my best teenaged ticket purchasing success.

But those babies have it down. Who could ask for anything more?

I saw Lynrd Skynrd with Doobie Brothers as warmup at a free 'park concert' when I lived in Florida.

One of the worst concert pairing ever was when, 1n 1967, Jimmy Hendrix opened for the Monkeys. Totally wrong audience for Hendrix and he was just about booed off the stage. Hendrix's manager was looking for exposure. LOL! BAD MOVE!

 

[fishorama]

LOL, I'm a Jimi fan & a Monkees fan but not together. My husband says Peter Tork of the Monkees did some bass studio work with Hendrix.

Who knows? Maybe babies would like all kinds of music

 

[jaylach]

LOL, I'm a Jimi fan & a Monkees fan but not together. My husband says Peter Tork of the Monkees did some bass studio work with Hendrix.

Who knows? Maybe babies would like all kinds of music

Just a bit of trivia... Did you know that Michael Nesmith's mom invented white-out for typing corrections? Michael Nesmith played guitar for the Monkeys. Actually he was probably the most successful Monkey with a successful career as a performer and song writer after the Monkeys.

 

[fishorama]

Ya know, I may have heard that before. For all that the Monkees were slammed for being a "created for tv" band, some were actual musicians...maybe not Davy Jones. He was just for his girlie cute looks & Brit accent. I loved him at 13 lol. Neil Diamond wrote at least 2 of their songs. My husband's band played "Last Train to Clarksville" & people of a few generations liked it & danced. It was fun! But no babies that I recall, lol.

 

[GaryE]

The father of the poet Dylan Thomas used to read rhythmic poetry loudly over his wife's belly before his son was born. He wanted his son to be a wordsmith. It worked, although I'm sure once Thomas was a kid, other approaches worked better. It's weird, but it makes a good story.
The baby Mozart fad of a few years ago petered out, but this research seems valid. Rhythm is so basic to everything. Rhythm, dance, timing, music - they're present in so many things we do. I can decide to take an afternoon nap and tell myself to wake up in 38 minutes, and I will wake up exactly at that time. Our bodies keep time, with really good silent drummers in our brains. What we recognize as rhythm probably comes out that.
I once did a fiction reading in one of those old chrome microphones from the 1940s, still in use in the 80s in a hippy cafe. It had been used in shows there by Bob Dylan and... Mike Naismith. I was impressed by the Monkees connection because like the Beatles cartoons, they'd been childhood TV for me.
There have always been manufactured bands like the Monkees, the Sex Pistols, the Spice Girls and a pile of K-Pop stars. Research into other animals says many get rhythm as we do, so there's probably 'always' been rhythm too, I just wish English had chosen a word that was easier to spell for it.

 

[TwoTankAmin]

When I saw Jimi in the mid 60s at the Wollman Skating Rink in Central Park in New York City the opening act was Jerry Lee Lewis. The audience almost booed him of the stage while chanting for Jimi. I guess what goes around comes around.

Play this for new borns?

 

[gwand]

The brain and body run on rhythms. Some rhythms require multiple brain networks to operate while others need only a single cell. We are built on four types of rhythm. There is the well known 24 hour circadian rhythm that oversee sleep wake cycles and most hormone regulation. There are actually clock genes in the hypothalamus that govern all our circadian rhythms. There are rhythms that repeat multiple times per day, the ultradian rhythms. For example when we sleep, we cycle through light, deep and rem sleep roughly every 90 minutes. There is the rest-activity cycle. Even while we are awake, our brain experiences 90 minute waves of high alertness, followed by 20 minutes of dips in energy. Then there’s the rhythmic contraction of our guts that occurs multiple times a day. There are microscopic ultradian rhythms that maintain heart rate regulated by pacemaker cells in the heart. There are infradian rhythms, rhythms longer than 24 hours, that govern the menstrual cycle, hibernation and red blood cell turnover. Lastly are the circannual rhythms, rhythms based on a yearly cycle which regulate behaviors like bird migration and seasonal mood changes in some humans. These are just a few examples from a list of many more. Rhythm is at the core of who and what we are.

 

[jaylach]

I remember seeing Pink Floyd in Pittsburgh's Three River Stadium when they were doing the Animals album show. They played three long sets. I would have walked off the stage halfway through the first set. People on the field were actually shooting bottle rockets at the band members. It was a totally different audience than what I was used to seeing. When seeing concerts at Cleveland's Municipal stadium, or at the Spectrum in Philly, there were joints being passed around. In Pittsburgh it was whiskey bottles.

When I spent seven months in the Naval hospital in Philly I was more of an out patient after the first month. The hospital was just my billet. I went to many concerts at the Spectrum and caught some baseball games at Veteran's Stadium. Both venues were military positive and offered half off any tickets to patients at the hospital. Not sure if they offered the same to hospital staff but they probably did.

Also saw my other Pink Floyd show at the Spectrum when they were doing Meddle. Many think that Meddle was their first album but they actually put out five others first. The first five were heavily psychedelic.

The worst performance I saw was also at the Spectrum being Chicago. Don't get me wrong as the music was great but, when going to a show, you expect some sort of stage show and there was absolutely nothing. The band member took their spots and never moved.

One of the best I've seen was at Cleveland's Municipal Stadium that I had to be drug to kicking and screaming. The performer was Rod Stewart. One plus was that a friend's wife worked for a company that had a lodge in the stadium and passed out tickets if the big wigs were not using. She got four tickets. They invited me and my wife. The stage show was really pretty simple but totally clean and matched his music perfectly. After that show he became one of my favorites and his song, Maggie May, is still one of my all time favorites. The song is actually a story of when he was at a festival as a young man still in school that got entrapped by an older woman that basically used him for her own gratification.

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[gimme30]

older woman that basically used him for her own gratification

Best thing about older women! Mmmm, cougars... RAWR!


I'm innately funky. Mom says I danced right out of the womb. She'd have put me on Dance Fever but couldn't find platform heels my size.