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bee Group: Members Posts: 1227 Joined: Jan. 2004 Posted: June 06 2007, 11:08 Just been sent this, it has nothing to do with Mr O but it might amuse some of you... How smart is your right foot? 1. Whilst sitting, lift your right foot off the floor and make clockwise circles. 2. Now, while doing this, draw the number '6' in the air with your right hand. Your right foot will change direction, and there's nothing you can do about it!!   I just want to know why now! ( I really should go and find something useful to do ) -------------- ....second to the right and straight on till morning.... You heard me before Yet you hear me again Then I die Till I call me again Back to top

Matt Group: Admins Posts: 1186 Joined: Nov. 2002 Posted: June 06 2007, 11:37 My foot keeps going clockwise. Is there something wrong with me... (Work colleagues have just given me one of those "what the heck is he doing now" looks. They know there is something wrong with me! -------------- "I say I say I say I say, what's got three bottles and five eyes and no legs and two wheels" Back to top

SoimSandheaver Group: Members Posts: 325 Joined: May 2006 Posted: June 06 2007, 14:37 That's so weird... I love little brain teasers like that. -------------- "Three blokes go into a pub, one of them's a little bit stupid, then the whole scene unfolds, with a tedious inevitability." Back to top

Sir Mustapha Group: Musicians Posts: 2802 Joined: April 2003 Posted: June 06 2007, 14:50 It happens with some people (okay, maybe many people), and I guess there IS something you can do about it. Like acquiring a dual-core brain, maybe... -------------- Check out http://ferniecanto.com.br for all my music, including my latest albums: Don't Stay in the City, Making Amends and Builders of Worlds. Also check my Bandcamp page: http://ferniecanto.bandcamp.com Back to top

Ugo Group: Members Posts: 5495 Joined: April 2000 Posted: June 06 2007, 17:02 This (normally) happens because the brain links the hands' motion (whatever it is) with the feet's motion. To me it happens, I have no idea about why it doesn't to others. -------------- Ugo C. - a devoted Amarokian Back to top

ImAFoolAndImLaughing Group: Members Posts: 536 Joined: Feb. 2006 Posted: June 06 2007, 17:46 ...and, of course, it all depends how you draw your sixes - if you start at the middle and draw your loop clockwise, round to the point at the top, you can get around it... but that's cheating, of course....   -------------- "I was in this prematurely air conditioned supermarket and there were these bathing caps you could buy that had these kind of Fourth of July plumes on them that were red and yellow and blue and I wasn't tempted to buy one but I was reminded of the fact that I had been avoiding the beach." Back to top

bee Group: Members Posts: 1227 Joined: Jan. 2004 Posted: June 06 2007, 18:22 [quote=Matt,June 06 2007, 16:37]My foot keeps going clockwise. Is there something wrong with me... (Work colleagues have just given me one of those "what the heck is he doing now" looks. They know there is something wrong with me! Well I guess you do have the dual-core brain. I think I'd just ignore the work colleagues, shouldn't they be working anyway? -------------- ....second to the right and straight on till morning.... You heard me before Yet you hear me again Then I die Till I call me again Back to top

glasgow_tubular Group: Members Posts: 215 Joined: July 2006 Posted: June 07 2007, 07:33 Quote (Work colleagues have just given me one of those "what the heck is he doing now" looks. They know there is something wrong with me! Ditto! my foot doesn;t change direction it just goes kinda side to side   -------------- www.myspace.com/allaroundmyhat Back to top

jonnyw Group: Members Posts: 522 Joined: Oct. 2005 Posted: June 07 2007, 18:19 uhm... I have tried my 6's clockwise, and anti clockwise, and still my foot stays its clockwise motion... Its the same with me when i do that "rub your belly and pat your head".. I can do that too.. and i can also move one hand clockwise and the other anticlockwise, apparently its more difficult, and it would be interesting to see if imafoolandimlaughing and i have this in common.. Try this - take your right hand, turn it on its side - like a karate chop, then turn it so that your palm is facing you, and the back of your hand (your knuckles etc) are facing away from you. do the same with your left so that both palms are facing you, now, try to move your right hand towards you, up, forward, down, towards you, up, forward down, only make  this like a circular motion - we will say that this is moving in an anti clockwise motion for the purpose of this experiment... now, wile you are doing  this with your right hand... try to move your left hand in completely the opposite way, i.e - forward, up, towards you, down, forward, up towards you, down. try to make this circular again, like as if to be going opposite in relation to the right had so to summarise, right hand - toward you, up, forward, down, toward you, up, forward, down Left hand - forward, up, toward you, down, forward up, toward you, down. heh, sounds more complicated trying to write it down, but apparently its one of the hardest things a mind can do to try to multitask.. -------------- Grand piano. Reed and pipe organ. Glockenspeil. Bass guitar. Vocal chords. Two slightly sampled electric guitars. The venitian effect. Digital sound processor. And Tubular bells. Solo music - http://-terrapin-.bebo.com Band music - http://www.rsimusic.com Back to top

Sir Mustapha Group: Musicians Posts: 2802 Joined: April 2003 Posted: June 07 2007, 20:16 Yeah, I managed to do that too. I think the tricky thing is starting both motions at the same time, but once it stabilises, I can do it on and on. I have little or no knowledge on the matters of coordination, but things like that might have to do with how the movements of one side of the body are controlled by one hemisphere of the brain (someone, please correct me if I'm wrong). Similar difficulties arise for percussionists, keyboardists, etc. when playing polyrhythms - for example, drumming triplets with one hand and quintuplets with the other, at the same time. Trickiness ensues! -------------- Check out http://ferniecanto.com.br for all my music, including my latest albums: Don't Stay in the City, Making Amends and Builders of Worlds. Also check my Bandcamp page: http://ferniecanto.bandcamp.com Back to top

Harmono Group: Members Posts: 759 Joined: May 2005 Posted: June 07 2007, 20:50 exactly good drummers can do these things. Ask an African Back to top

jonnyw Group: Members Posts: 522 Joined: Oct. 2005 Posted: June 07 2007, 21:31 Quote (Sir Mustapha @ June 08 2007, 01:16) Similar difficulties arise for percussionists, keyboardists, etc. when playing polyrhythms - for example, drumming triplets with one hand and quintuplets with the other, at the same time. Trickiness ensues! You do have a very good point there, I have always been fascinated by percussion and rhythm, and i can do what you what you were saying with triplest adn quintuplets, maybe there is a link to someone who never stops tapping rhythms out and being able to do the above tasks. What i found funny was, my mum argued with me once that women were better at multitasking, but she cannot do what i above said. I personally swat off all these sexist comments about women being better at this, men being better at that.... it annoys me, and as i above noted, its not true most of the time. but yeah, i agree, i think it goes though with a lot of musicians, as even with the guitar you find one hand doing something opposite (like speed picking or economy picking at high speeds.) -------------- Grand piano. Reed and pipe organ. Glockenspeil. Bass guitar. Vocal chords. Two slightly sampled electric guitars. The venitian effect. Digital sound processor. And Tubular bells. Solo music - http://-terrapin-.bebo.com Band music - http://www.rsimusic.com Back to top

jonnyw Group: Members Posts: 522 Joined: Oct. 2005 Posted: June 07 2007, 21:35 Quote (Harmono @ June 08 2007, 01:50) exactly good drummers can do these things. Ask an African are you implying that all africans are good drummers? -------------- Grand piano. Reed and pipe organ. Glockenspeil. Bass guitar. Vocal chords. Two slightly sampled electric guitars. The venitian effect. Digital sound processor. And Tubular bells. Solo music - http://-terrapin-.bebo.com Band music - http://www.rsimusic.com Back to top

Harmono Group: Members Posts: 759 Joined: May 2005 Posted: June 08 2007, 12:53 I guess I should have wrote ask an African drummer or ask an african masterdrummer. I think I know quite alot about African culture(s) so I'd never imply anything racist. What I meant is that most polyrhtyhms come from Africa, they have spread them around the world. There are incredibly many drummers in Africa anyway. Back to top

jonnyw Group: Members Posts: 522 Joined: Oct. 2005 Posted: June 08 2007, 21:02 Quote What I meant is that most polyrhtyhms come from Africa, they have spread them around the world yep, I am fascinated by Percussion and Rhythm, and i agree. -------------- Grand piano. Reed and pipe organ. Glockenspeil. Bass guitar. Vocal chords. Two slightly sampled electric guitars. The venitian effect. Digital sound processor. And Tubular bells. Solo music - http://-terrapin-.bebo.com Band music - http://www.rsimusic.com Back to top

bee Group: Members Posts: 1227 Joined: Jan. 2004 Posted: June 09 2007, 20:04 johnnyw, you are very clever, and anyone else who can do these complicated tasks!! I'm dead impressed, wish I could. It's possibly something that Guitar playing, piano playing, percussion hitting people can do with ease, and me as a 'ne'er do well' can't! I'm very glad you can so you can all make great music for us to listen to! -------------- ....second to the right and straight on till morning.... You heard me before Yet you hear me again Then I die Till I call me again Back to top

jonnyw Group: Members Posts: 522 Joined: Oct. 2005 Posted: June 10 2007, 17:08 Quote and me as a 'ne'er do well' can't! I'm very glad you can so you can all make great music for us to listen to! aww thanks -------------- Grand piano. Reed and pipe organ. Glockenspeil. Bass guitar. Vocal chords. Two slightly sampled electric guitars. The venitian effect. Digital sound processor. And Tubular bells. Solo music - http://-terrapin-.bebo.com Band music - http://www.rsimusic.com Back to top

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