Classical music has 'clicked' for me.All it took was forcing myself to follow a regimen of nothing but classical music for 2 hours a day, every day for a solid month.It was never even close to excruciating to do and I more or less enjoyed myself most of the time. Since it was almost all instrumental I felt more forced to ascribe meaning abstractly. Like how does all this counterpoint and switch in sections make me feel? If it's anything, classical seems to demand more 'active listening' and feels more 'cerebral', although I could also at least partially attribute that to how I forced myself to do nothing but sit there while listening to it.I did it like this because I figured anything will click if you're exposed to it enough and I guess I was right. Still, I'm no closer to preferring it to modern, popular music. There's just completely different appeals and I can't imagine hard limiting myself to one over the other. My takeaway is simple: if classical has ever 'filtered' you, you're missing out. If you only listen to classical because it's the only 'real music', you're also missing out.
>>129813728Cool, but what did you actually listen to and like?
>>129813728so you basically just conditioned yourself to like something
>he had finally learned to love Big Brahms
>>129813728I've been listening to classical music and getting deeper into it for years now, and it's not something that just clicks once. Every year I start understanding two or three composers I didn't really get before. Most recent example is Bartok: I forced myself to listen to every string quartet at least three times, at least once while looking at the score, and after 3-4 listens they all clicked. Sheet music really helps to see the logic behind it, and at that point it can basically become pattern recognition. Classical music is like a game between the composer and the listener.That said, I do agree with you that you need to listen to other things as well. For me, it's sometimes jazz, which I see as a kind of Afro-American classical music, then rock and metal, which feel like a romantic view toward the past or a longing for something unknown, and electronic dance music, which probably reflects the spirit of our time and has the most modern sensibility.>>129813775That's a bit reductive. There's a difference between conditioning yourself to like something and actually learning how to hear/understand it. OP even says they don't prefer it more, just that it makes more sense now.
>>129813830>Sheet music really helps to see the logic behind it, and at that point it can basically become pattern recognition. Classical music is like a game between the composer and the listener.sounds fun... NOT!
>>129813871Sorry you're retarded
>>129813871I mean, it can be fun if you have a decent level of pattern recognition and actually enjoy engaging with music on multiple levels.
>>129813747>Concierto De Aranjuez>Oeuvres D'Erik Satie>Violin Concerto>Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, Serenata Notturna, Divertimenti K. 136-138>Requiem>Out Of Doors / Klavierstück, Op. 33 / Piano Sonata, Op. 1 / Petrouchka>The Goldberg Variations>Requiem / Mass in D>Les NocesThese are just a couple of the most memorable CDs I listened to. Not really favorites or anything yet as I haven't revisited any besides when it was a really challenging listen and I started a track over. I found that I could enjoy them all for different reasons.
>>129813944Pretty cool and varied. Very nice.
>>129813775Yes. Anyone could theoretically do this for anything and something like this is the only way I can imagine getting someone into classical. Maybe not autistically on the daily but some kind of continued exposure and focus seems necessary.>>129813830I see what you mean. There tend to be so many more layers to classical music so there's more to get out of it.Broadly speaking however I think classical music has clicked for me in the most essential way already because I had to overcome some really specific hurdles to it. No matter the composer, it was all characterized by things like huge dynamics (took me a while to take my hand off the volume), little repetition, an instrumental focus, loose tempos, etc. Basically the opposite of modern recorded music. Not to disparage anything, but once I started catching the general vibe it feels like even if there was still a spectrum to how jarring it could get (e.g. Mozart Requiem vs. anything Bartok) I had already acquired the taste and it was just different flavors of intensity.>>129814084Thanks but I didn't really curate. 80% of what I listened to was handed over to me by family, notably my mom. The remaining was the used bin from the classical section.
>>129813944>>Les NocesThe first zeuhl composition. Check out Magma if you haven't already.
Listen to Ravel.
>>129813728Anyone can enjoy classical music, but I’ve never met anyone who listened to classical music and other genres in equal measureIn my experience, I listened to classical music and then could never listen to any other musical style again. To a certain extent, I always found pop, rock, and jazz repetitive and boring, but after listening to classical music for a certain period of time, basically everything that wasn’t classical simply became nothing. I have no interest in it at allWell, just as a teenager might hear Chopin playing in the background of an Instagram video and like it, I don’t see why anyone couldn’t listen to any composer and enjoy it. So even if you’ve listened to and liked classical music, it doesn’t mean much. Maybe you’ll stop listening to classical music or the other genres you listen to now, but I’d bet you’d probably listen to your usual music and, every now and then, some classical piecesAnd just to be clear, that’s not a problem
>>129813728>thing>Frog thing :O
>>129813728>Since it was almost all instrumental I felt more forced to ascribe meaning abstractly.This is amazing anon because when you learn this skill you also arguably get good af at writing abstract lyrics and very cool double meaning things with metaphors. You imagine a story free form depending on how the tune makes you feel. This is music in it's pure form, no inept narrator is telling you the story you should think about, its all you and the music guiding the journey. I mean this 100% 1000%
