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Surely you must be joking. You can't play music without counting. https://mic.com/articles/94992/the-scientific-reasons-we-should-teach-music-to-kids-in-school

Surely you must be joking. You can't play music without counting. https://mic.com/articles/94992/the-scientific-reasons-we-should-teach-music-to-kids-in-school https://mic.com/articles/94992/the-scientific-reasons-we-sho... "Mathematics, especially, are aided by music education because it targets a very specific set of brain activity: the development of spatial-temporal reasoning. Highly developed spatial-temporal faculties are imperative for working through solutions to the complex problems in fields such as architecture, engineering, science and, obviously, mathematics — fields that our country desperately needs more children to pursue if we're to remain competitive in a globalized economy."

Retra 10y ago
You can't do anything without counting. And I've met plenty of mathematically incompetent musicians. Enough so that I'd say the more accomplished of a musician you are, the less accomplished of a mathematician you'll probably be.
majewsky 10y ago
> You can't play music without counting. This is something that I recently was amazed by. I had a friend play 140 [1] and found that he struggled with many of the advanced puzzles even after being instructed to count the beats of the music. For some reason, it was very hard for him to multitask the movement of his character with the counting of the beats. Now that I think about it, it's quite obvious that this would come to me easily, since I played the piano for over 10 years. [1] A platformer game where you have to time your movements to the background music. It's really cool and polished and you should check it out; it's on Steam for a few bucks.