I was lucky. It didn't affect my motor, speech and guitar playing abilities and I can do everything just like before the stroke. Although, for the first few weeks everything had a wrong smell!
But unfortunately it affected my musical abilities.
When I came home from hospital and took my guitar for the first time, I found that I am unable to follow external music. It's not the ability to play an instrument or to hear sounds. It's not muscles or ear. It's the ability to internalize external stimulus and to "comprehend" what's going on outside, to include myself into external events. Rhythm, tempo, even tonality, chords. Melody is OK. But the variety of sounds in music makes it difficult for me to distinguish which instrument is playing which part, or even what instrument is playing (is it violin or piano or female voice!?) Is it major of minor? It all sounded the same to me.
Also, the music seems to have a hole(s) inside, so you hear it but unable to comprehend it faithfully. Like you hear the music through old transistor radio. So, it's about the perception. And perception includes memory and wideness of events. Like you are in dark room with a battery lamp and can focus the light only on one part of the room - there's no wideness.
Doctors didn't tell me a word about it. But Wikipedia did. This state is called "amusia" and it affects musical perception, including musical memory, distinguishing between different notes (pitch), rhythm, tempo (time aspect of music), ability to distinguish harmonious from disharmonious sounds and so on. Even the "space" aspect of music - structure of the song. If anybody wants to know more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amusia
So, after six or seven years of honing my producent-ear skills in Taxi, I'm at the beginning or worse.
I wonder if any of you guys had similar situation and want to share experiences.
I intend to continue writing and recording music. There are even some good aspects in this amiss situation. As my perception of music is changed, I see the opportunity to even progress in terms of musical ideas and to distance myself from my pave, tread (TY, Google translator
) common, boring ideas.So, I took the opportunity and involved myself into piano lessons. After a month or so, my piano playing is progressing.
. I also started several musical projects (still outside the tempo ). Why waste time? It's better to progress than to sit and wait for life to pass.
