Dancing About Geography.

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guitarbuddha

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Dancing About Geography.

From Wikipedia

'Waggle dance is a term used in beekeeping and ethology for a particular figure-eight dance of the honey bee. By performing this dance, successful foragers can share, with other members of the colony, information about the direction and distance to patches of flowers yielding nectar and pollen, to water sources, or to new nest-site locations.'

So are bees all geeks inventing arcane schemes to make their knowledge more mysterious ?????

Seems really weird.

But when the option is to lead each individual by the hand through the flight you have taken a system for communicating efficiently saves a lot of time and effort.

Wikipedia does seem eventually to produce enjoyable prose, I liked this bit.

'By performing this dance, successful foragers can share, with other members of the colony, information about the direction and distance to patches of flowers yielding nectar and pollen, to water sources, or to new nest-site locations.'

It applies perfectly to music theory . Unless you don't really know the dance. But bees can do it, some things just take practice, and I guess you need to be hungry. And noone can cover the ground for you, so on it's own understanding the dance isn't that useful.

D.

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jan. 31 2015 14:59:46

Sr. Martins

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RE: Dancing About Geography. (in reply to guitarbuddha)

Music theory is a framework. It helps to communicate with others and ALSO with oneself... like a group of shelves where you lay out your explorations.

The most common misconception is people thinking of it as rules, then you tell them "these aren't rules and even if you think of it as such, you can break them!"... then they get confused and ask "then why do I need theory?".

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jan. 31 2015 15:09:39

guitarbuddha

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RE: Dancing About Geography. (in reply to Sr. Martins)

quote:

ORIGINAL: Sr. Martins

Music theory is a framework. It helps to communicate with others and ALSO with oneself... like a group of shelves where you lay out your explorations.

True.

The Waggle Dance is about communicating with others. Bees are wise .

We humans build a Tower of Babel wherever we meet. We are in one now.

D.

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jan. 31 2015 15:14:16