What's your best musical talent?

[dana_minmin]

What's your best musical talent? eg. visual/aural memory, instant playing from conductor scores, sight reading, fast fingers... etc.

What are the pros and cons to have it?




For myself, aural memory.
I can easily remember a piece from beginning to end and it helps me practicing.
If there's a piece sounds interesting and appealing to me, I can't stop playing it in my head if I'm not focusing.  Sometimes I need to think to myself 'ok, stop thinking it, I need to sleep...'  It's quite distracting when I'm doing non-music exams.

btw, do I need some psychiatry? 

[ferret_dance]

The Kazoo.

[epf]

I have a Kazoo, but I can't figure out how to tune it!

Ed

[dana_minmin]

can it be tuned?

[epf]

can it be tuned?

Um...no -- its a joke! A Kazoo is a toy wind instrument that has a membrane that makes a sound when you hum into the mouthpiece. As a result, it's your humming that produces the tone. If you hum off key, the Kazoo plays off key.

Ed

[dana_minmin]

 

sounds interesting

[pianochick93]

Haha, they sound terrible in my opinion. My friends got kazoos and wandered around school for a few days with them, I almost screamed.

My best musical talent is probably sightreading. I'm not wonderful, but most of the time I can read a piece all the way through with very few difficulties. (If the piece isn't too hard for me to play normally of course.)

[dana_minmin]

I have never seen one (kazoo) before. 

What's the downside of having good sight reading skills? I'm curious.

[pianochick93]

Here is a kazoo: (sorry about the size)



About the sightreading, I'm not sure myself, because I find it pretty useful, but I have never been able to memorise as well as the people I know who can't sight read as well. That could be because I tend not to like relying on my memory, and if I memorise it's because of my finger muscles remembering where to go, not because of lots of mental work on my behalf.

[dana_minmin]

Here is a kazoo: (sorry about the size)

where to hum? 

[pianochick93]

Into the end furthest away from the funny thing on the top.

[dana_minmin]

perfect for parties

[pianochick93]

And for torture by terrible sound.