researchers discover some people are "beat-deaf"

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Thats very interesting. All my life I've simply called it tone-deafness since literally, music does not inspire me to move my body nor have I ever been able to just 'carry a tune' whistling unless I memorize the tune after practicing for a bit.

I do like music and it gives me an emotional feedback type of thing but I've never felt it 'move' me as I see practically everyone else do. Over the years I've considered 'others' to be like people in a Disney movie where all the sudden they can snap out in song and dance and I'm just there observing and wondering what form of mass hysteria overtook them XD

I'm sensitive to tone and rhythm but I can't really dance. I look geeky when I try

Isn't this just another word for "no sense of rhythm"?

I have good rhythm but my mum doesn't. Or at least she's too old in the knees to move to the rhythm too precisely (we both linedance).

some people have a sense of rhythm when it comes to marches and square dances but not for anything with syncopation.