>>13285269I play classical guitar. I guess I'm better than your typicals soicuck or normie who just plays acoustic covers of pop music like Mumford and Sons or Maroon 5 or the Beatles, but by classical/jazz/metal standards, I'm basically a beginner. Anyway, I can kind of improvise, and interestingly I do way better when I'm mildly intoxicated. It helps to be relaxed and just go with the flow. If I'm sober, sometimes I overthink things a little too much, and my fingers get in the way of each other, and I get caught up trying to think 5 measure ahead, so to speak. Just a half can of beer or a few kratom capsules helps get me into the musical head space a bit better. Interestingly, I'm a grad student in math, and I have to say that conversely, getting intoxicated generally inhibits, rather than improves, my mathematical ability. But that being said, music and mathematics do seem to share a lot of overlapping cognitive features. I don't know a lot about the topic, but if you're familiar with the concept of a generative grammar for human language, similar formal grammars have been developed by Ray Jackendoff and other for describing human musical cognition, and similar methods are also applied to parsing arithmetic formula as well, although I'm not specifically aware of something like a generative grammar describing aspects of mathematical cognition.
