Rushing E: A neuroscience experiment.

Of all the things that can get you clout on the internet, funnily, a piano piece called Rush E might be your best chance at “Dank” infamy. The fact that Tide Pods were even considered is sad.

Either way, as a Tabla Player of 18 years, I have had my fair share of musical acquaintances with the impossible to play, crazy compositions that will blow your mind, but also are a great display of your practice, physical ability and musical prowess.

As Stephen King once said, “Talent is cheaper than table salt, what separates the successful from the talented is a lot of hard-work.” As an extension, I would say that hard-work does not even fucking matter if you know game the game. Somewhat of a disservice to the whole “26 hours of practice a day, Ling Ling” crowd, I would rather profess that TwoSet Neuron is a better thing to have than TwoSet Violin.

Either way, the point is that neuroscience, cognitive psychology and science can be used to learn things at a faster and more efficient rate than regular people can. Obviously this has to do with basic concepts of memory and learning as well as more abstractive constructs such as interest theory and neuroscience.

My goal is to push the limits of auto-didactic learning with learning to play Rush E by Sheet Music Boss. Of course, learning a new instrument is hard, it takes years of practice and talent cannot be replaced with brute force, but understanding the spiking neuron model and how it plays into our capability to learn definitely does. Over the next 6 odd months, I hope to not only go on a journey of computational modelling of learning but also actually use it to fucking destroy the music piece.


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