Aspies and Music

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I have a music talent. I don't know whether or not this has to do something with Asperger's Syndrome. Can Aspies even do this.

I have a musical talent 2, wat kind of musik u do?

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I'm not sure it's particularly an Aspie trait - my friend is an amazing musician but is nowhere near being an Aspie. Actually most of my friends are musical and non-Aspies (I'd not quite class them as NT though - they're not Aspie but they're not *quite* NT ... )

Aspies can do anything they put their minds to, just like anybody else. It's just that we get deeply interested in things. If you have musical talent, it could be a deep interest. When I get into something, it sizzles with passion and excitement. You didn't say what sort of musical talent you're into.

- Ray M -

i play bass


im into all kinds of rock music from the 50's to the present...

and i'm an aspie!

I am composer, and I am sure, that there is a connection to the syndrome. It makes you use A LOT af time on composing, which really trains you. In my case, I love reading Music Theory too, so its a big + having the syndrome.

i have a really good ear for music but i never really learned to read music. by the way i play bass too. i also play guitar and keyboard (poorly).

I play keyboards, guitar, bass, clarinet and violin. Getting in enough practice time is my main problem. I'm going to be teaching guitar and bass in the fall, so that's what I've been reaching for most lately. I read music for all of the above instruments and also can play by ear.

My musical tastes are fairly comprehensive but I don't know much about rap, hiphop or country.

Hey there fellow brit. Just wondering do you compose your own music? If so what kind of style?

I like what most people consider as music you learn from.

However, if I hear a song that is strange, it gets stuck in my head for a long time.

Classically trained pianist.

Yes, I do compose a bit. Style? Um, pretty tame and i guess quite classical in that I much prefer balanced phrasing and diatonic harmonies, etc. Though I'm always adamant that all instruments in my pieces have near enough equal prominence at one point or another. And ... it just sounds a bit weird, I think. Somehow my stuff always tends to sound a bit baroque, and it's repetitive and boring ... gha. I think I have possibly one piece (completed) with which I am actually pleased, the rest just bug me. But anyway.

How about you? Are you musical? Do you play / compose / both / or just like listening?

I play the guitar and compose but i'm not classically trained, and I don't create classical style music (can't more like). I have made a few instrumental music using string samples and stuff but its nothing like those godlike classical composers, more like film music.

Film music's always good!

Self taught guitar player. I can also play bass. I've also taught myself to play drums, and would like to learn more at some point. I've also taught myself a little bit of piano/Keyboards, as well as some sequencing.

A couple of really well known musicians that I think may have Asperger's are Eddie Van Halen, and John Wardle, aka Jah Wobble. EVH is also a self taught guitar player who doesn NOT interview well at all. Jah Wobble, who essentially picked up a Bass and was voted one of the best new Bass players several months later walked away from PIL, as well as all session work in the mid 80's to work on the London Underground. Wobble is gigging again with a new band, but I have to ask who but an Aspie would walk away from a promising music career to work on a Subway system?

I'm a trombone player (jazz and classical) that practices almost every day (or tries to during the summer; sometimes it gets to where I skip a day or two and come back to it). Anyways, I can compose music in my head, and I also can understand what a composer means by a piece of music often, since I get a picture of it in my head. I love music with a deep passion, and I'm honestly thinking of learning how to be a music educator and maybe in that career I can teach at an all-aspie school to teach others what music and band has taught me. The band has also been like a second family to me; it's been quite nice having band to go to at school.