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When listening to music, do other people make an effort to identify and follow (at least for a little while) each different instrument/sound in the mix?

When I wear my fancy shmancy in-ear-monitors I tend to occasionally stop what I'm doing as I try to pick apart the instrumentation of more complex productions. And I think I might be weird

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@neatchee I overanalyze every song I hear and nerd out about the production and the chord progressions. I have a music degree so I’m a little obsessed with :diolaugh:

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@robustjumprope I never did much academic music theory but I've been a singer since I was very little. Choirs, Acapella, bands, etc. I can't stop myself at this point from hearing music that way.

Case in point, picking out the 3rd-layer synth keyboard 16th-notes that fade from ear to ear in the post-chorus in the chorus of this track: music.youtube.com/watch?v=oYTT

So many layers lol

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@neatchee
Yes. I also listen for unusual instruments.
Like the in Violet Evergarden.
There's also something that sounds like a in Sound of the Sky. And a decent-sounding in Ascendance of a Bookworm.
The last two might be electronic, but if they are they're extremely well-done. I know the gamba is a real one.