Aspies and Music

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It does seem to me that Asperger's is more commonly associated with math and sciences, but I'm the complete opposite. I have almost zero capacity for understanding numbers (especially when related to measurements, like time and space), but have always had a huge imagination and knack for anything creative.

It is good to see that, while being a "minority within a minority" of sorts, that there are other creative Aspies out there. Else I think I'd feel just as alienated as before, if all of you were the math types. (Note: I do love science in terms of how the universe interacts, but have no capacity for the details of it).

I draw (though infrequently these days), write screenplays (or try anyway), and primarily write and play songs (mostly acoustic guitar, but i can play a lot of things, given the time).

I have a few songs on my myspace, but they are just mediocre tracks ive done all on my own. I'm dying to get into a real studio and find out what I am really capable of.

www.myspace.com/excitableboy

I played a bit of piano as a kid, played guitar from 5th grade up through 11th, tried to start a band all that time, and ever since 18 I've been producing hard trance, acid techno, mostly jungle these days though. My only weakpoint right now - I'm great with building a good mood in my tracks but I still tend to be a bit weak and sloppy on the technicals, that's something I'm really trying to overcome.

I took piano lessons for seven years. I didn't enjoy memorizing the music or going to practice; reading it off the page seemed easier, and I could do that extraordinarly fast. My favorite type of music to play had been classical, which I have even tried a little composing at; however, before I stopped lessons in 2005, my teacher got me interested in blues. At that time I was becoming more dedicated to practicing and I had a new teacher who gave one-on-one lessons, which were better for my anxiety. My lessons used to be in a class with other students seated at pianos all in the same room, some very advanced and with much better social skills, which of course lead to minimal teaching time for me. My new teacher said that becoming a concert pianist was a possible opportunity for me.

Although ive been playing guitar for a number of years now, ive never had a single lesson.

I started having piano lessons about 3 years ago but had a total of about 3 hours cos I had to move.

I'm just wondering, when you are classically trained, what exactly do you learn?

Is is possible to download a sylabus so I can teach myself the proper way or something?

Also can anyone recommend a good and easy single note instrument I can learn, im thinking a flute, maybe the japanese Shakuhachi. No idea where to buy one from though.

I think the AS helps my music. It seems like most musicians just fumble around in the dark with their gut. Almost all popular music I ever hear seems to have one thing in common.. some short riff or melody was figured out, and then milked for the whole song. It's like they can come up with song ingredients, but can't figure out how to put them together interestingly.
So pretty much all modern popular music is like driving down a road. There's a tree, there's another identical tree, and again, and again, and again, oh oh, we're going over a BRIDGE, and now here's some more trees.

I get good melody ideas from my gut occasionally, and when I do, I develop it all scientific-like with my AS roboticness. It makes for really cool stuff.

self taught on guitar, i play spanish and some classical, write my own songs just for fun. And have just started playing a steel string and playing around with different tunings. I'm really into folk and making music for people to enjoy without record labels or the industry getting in the way. I'm trying to start back on violin, i played it years ago when i was a kid, but i'm struggling a little and i may have to find a nice teacher to help me.

I play the piano, and was even thinking about going to the conservatory. But then I'd have to become one of the best players OR be a teacher to get a job, and the chances for these are very small indeed.

I'm a classical pianist and composer. In high school, Glenn Gould, who probably had AS, was one of my heroes. (For some reason, alot of musicians I know despise Gould.) It was over ten years before I new what AS was, and that I had it.

I don't know how to play an instrument, but I think I have some music appreciations, different to almost all NT way of thinking.

Music is the most mathematical of all art forms, so it's not really that surprising if it comes naturally to an aspie.

Personal history: playing around with various types of electronic music for a bit over a decade, being serious about it for perhaps five years. Started with Protracker on my old Amiga 500 and went from there.

I play piano. I am trying to learn how to play the tin whistle at the moment.