When I hear music, I can choose to pay attention and absorb the sound and vibe, or ignore whatever even music I strongly like and sometimes dance to. I am the master in motor control of my body.
Mr dave is what develops to someone fast, athletic, and lively that has moved as a dancer to amplified rock music when in the mood, regularly all their adult life. But since I retired 7 years ago as someone that during working years never made time to dance to other music genres, I now find I can also dance to about any genre of music at any speed, and look good, as long as I let myself.
So my bilateral Earth creature muscle brain at the cerebrum motor cortex humunculus has developed extreme motor control via years of neural plasticity. We are what we do and repeat. Mr dave has danced all his life like an old rock musician controlling their guitar, but instead with his whole body. And yeah, he is really glad that now in olde age he has uniquely in this era as a guy, been that lively person.
In a similar way skiing, I'm an elite recreational skier with impressive videos on Youtube because I've made endless turns over 4+ decades of winters that creates chemical neural interconnecting path structural changes each time such is repeated. My ski turns, body position, and balance are so wired in to my brain at this late point in life that each first day of every season, even after not skiing for 8 months, I can ski so in high level form at least at the get go, though with limited staying endurance power.
Likewise as a dancer, I've danced so much that it flows out naturally without having to purposely control motion. Something that jazz, tap, Irish step, and more dancers have been doing since the 1920s in films. In fact, I've danced so much since retiring, that I can dance without music though at a slower more relaxed rate. So that is what music does to mr dave, of great enjoyment and value in his life.
