Why yes, I *am* having trouble sleeping... thoughts on listening to music

[braider]

So, I made an interesting (to me) realization last night: I have little to no aural depth perception. I knew I tended to hear recorded or amplified music as a wall of sound, having trouble listening to the line of a single instrument. Even when I'm sitting amongst instruments, it's sometimes hard to hear just one

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[peteralway]

Listening to you invent harmonic lines makes it transparent to me that these skills have existed in your brain at an advanced level for a long time, but it's good that you are feeling that they are more in your conscious perceptions and under your conscious control.

There is something magical about realizing that there is something you can do today that you couldn't do a year ago.

[it_aint_easy]

I can relate. In my case, vocal harmony was a single sound for me for most of my life. (That's at least part of what made it so magical for me.) In the last 8 years or so, I've developed the ability to, sometimes, pick out a single voice. But not always. It was quite a discovery, though.

I'd always just despaired when harmony workshops would say things like "Listen to songs you like that have harmony, and figure out how the different parts go together." To which I would (internally) reply "Parts?"