re: What’s a music fact most people don’t know?

I was taught "one trip let, two trip let. . . "

Fun Facts-

Peter Cetera wore a Bauhaus tee shirt in the video below

Tom wears a Joy Division tee shirt in 500 Days of Summer

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You've never heard of people saying the word "triplet" as a three syllable word to count triplets?

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No, and I've been playing instruments for decades and have been in several bands.

I'm not saying it's a bad method - sounds useful to newbs actually. I've just never heard that before.

Plants can actually respond to music. Studies have shown that plants grow faster and healthier when exposed to music. And vegetables yield more food, flowers grow more vibrant etc.

Musical scales and intervals that are pleasing to the ear are based on the same Fibonacci sequence numbers (like 5, 8, 13) that show up lots of other seemingly unrelated places.

Mark Knofler wrote Private Dancer by Tina Turner

Jerry Garcia played pedal steel on Teach Your Children by CSNY

The day Steve Gadd played drums on Aja for Steely Dan, he also played on two top 40 hits. Prior to the Aja session starting at 2:00, Gadd played on You Make Me Feel Like Dancing and When I Need You, both by Leo Sayer.

Same studio, same drum kit.

Pretty good day.

Gerry Rafferty of Baker Street fame was previously in Stealers Wheel ( stuck in the middle with you).

Steve Miller taught Boz Skaggs to play guitar when he was 12 years old and Boz was the singer in Millers first band. The guys from Toto were his band on the Silk degrees tour and officially formed Toto after the tour was over ( see Jeff Pecaro et al on Lowdown).Speaking of Lowdown, John Travolta choreographed his dance in Saturday Night Fever to it but it was changed to The Bee Gees later.

When he was 18 , Glenn Frey was blocked by his mom from joining his buddy Bob Seger’s band because Seger was a stoner.

The Beatles once opened for Peggy Lee (in Hamburg).