What is the most complicated music in the world?

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According to scientists in Brazil and the US, it's not techno but the Javanese form of gamelan, followed closely by western classical music and the music of north India. A gamelan orchestra is based on metallic percussion instruments with wind and drums. In the Javanese version, musicians add a stringed instrument (called a rebab) and voices. Heather Jennings, a physicist at Wesleyan University in Connecticut, led a team of researchers to develop a way to study the fluctuations in loudness in nine different genres of music. Jennings has adapted a form of analysis normally used to monitor the patterns in heartbeats. After running each of the different styles of music through the analysis, she ended up with a number from zero to one that indicated its complexity - the closer the music came to one, the more complex it was. Javanese gamelan and north Indian music got the highest values; Brazilian forro music and electronic techno music both came bottom of the complexity scale with values around 0.8, while Jazz and rock'n'roll sat roughly in between the two extremes. According to Mark Lewis, a Southeast Asia author for the Rough Guides, gamelan is as interesting as it is complex. "There's a mesmeric quality to gamelan, which stems from the repetitious nature of its rhythms," he says. "A single chime sounds familiar and ordinary, but many chimes combined create an effect that is other-worldy and rather beautiful. The overriding impression is of hearing running water." Jennings says the research is meant to introduce a new way to analyse music scientifically, rather than being a judgment of the music itself. "None of the results have a direct bearing on harmony, melody or other aspects of music," write the researchers. "Our results apply only to loudness fluctuations, which can reflect aspects of the rhythm of the music." But not all complex rhythms are easy on the ear. On Jennings' scale, anything that has a value over one is essentially defined as noise.

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My fingertips get slightly sweaty, just enough to stick to the keys. The only thing that helps slightly is to dust my fingers in talcum powder, but it only helps for a few minutes.

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I've recently returned to playing after about 30 years and I had forgotten having this problem when I was playing all of those years ago, then my old Piano was around first world war vintage so had ivory keys. I remember the piano tuner complaining about the talcum powder under the keys, so since then I've just dusted my fingertips. The Yamaha U3 I've had since Christmas and I've started trying to get back all of the lost years.

The sweaty fingers are at there worst now in the summer.

I've used Cory Key-Brite, but that seems to make the keys have a surface resistance, which only goes after playing for some time when fingers are totally dry.

I wondered is it my 'lack of' technique that makes my playing so impossible when my fingers just glue themselves to the keys and how do anyone else manage when fingers aren't completely dry ?

Could it be that I'm lacking in finger strength to actually make the fingers move where they should even against the resistance the sticking is causing ?

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