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And that totally makes sense to me: you would think all instruments should be played that way.

I had a friend who was a musician. I think he was pretty good, but I don't know if the music was any good or not, because it wasn't heavy metal. But I think he was pretty good at playing it.

Anyway, he was doing something on the guitar, and I was amazed, I absolutely loved the sound of it. So I asked him what song it was, and he said it wasn't a song, he was just playing a chromatic scale. Which didn't mean anything to me. I mean, I know people use the word 'scale' in music, but when I hear the word I usually just think of fish.

So he says that the chromatic scale is just play a note, then the note next to that one, then the note next to that one, and so on, like that. And that totally makes sense to me: you would think all instruments should be played that way.

Then he says it's not really melodical, which I think means he didn't think it would work for a song. Which I really don't get; I think a song that was a note, then the note next to that one, then the note next to that one, and so on, would be the most perfect song ever. But I guess music doesn't work that way, which is just another way that the world fucks with people who are on the spectrum.

I mean, if a guy on the spectrum made a guitar it would just need to be one string, because all the notes are there, one next to the other. And my friend said that a piano is kinda like that, but then when I asked him why there were black keys and white keys he got all confusing and shit. If someone on the spectrum made a piano it would just need white keys. Or black keys. One or the other. Maybe just black keys, because there aren't as many of them, which should make it quicker to learn how to play.

So he let me play his guitar, and I must have a talent for it, because I was able to play a chromatic scale right off the bat, and fuck did it sound cool. For one moment I felt like a rock star. Then he said he was going to show me how to play a chord, but it seems that a chord has you put all your fingers on different places on different strings, and that's just fucked up.

But there's a guitar store on my way to work, so sometimes I go there and plug in a guitar, and just play a chromatic scale over and over and over, real loud. And it fucking sounds great, but the guys there still ask me to leave.

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