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    4 days ago

    I do wonder how many people got their first spark in making music through these recorder classes. I figured that’d be the main purpose, introduce kids to a form of art they might later develop a passion for, which would make it pretty much ineffective as I believe most people passionate about music didn’t catch if from recorders.

    But apparently, it’s to teach kids how to read music which makes a lot more sense now that I think about it but still feels like something some English guy decided was part of a well-rounded education and nobody’s bothered to question it since.

    I’m not saying that reading music isn’t important or anything just that it’s use is probably much more limited to professional spaces since the advent of recording devices, music notation is still pretty kick-ass though and I see why someone would still want it as part of the curriculum.

    Personally, I think it’d be really fun if music classes could use apps like GarageBand or something- that way you could use whichever instrument you prefer and also play around with things like pitch and stuff so it’d have this sense of exploration. But, even aside from cost concerns there’s already issues with how digitized educations so I’m not sure taking away analog instruments is really the best idea






  • His dark green rubbery skin was thick enough for him to play the game of Vogon Civil Service politics, and play it well, and waterproof enough for him to survive indefinitely at sea depths of up to a thousand feet with no ill effects.

    Mr. L. Prosser was, as they say, only human. In other words he was a carbon-based life form descended from an ape

    something like these, perhaps? There are probably better examples, I just skimmed through the first couple chapters of Hitchiker’s Guide to the galaxy