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Why do humans air-guitar/drum?

Why is it that when we listen to the solo from Comfortably Numb, or the drums from Moby Dick, we seek to emulate the musical gestures by thrashing an air guitar or beating an imaginary drum?

(or at least I do)
  • psychological association?
    For me its like an addiction I just have to air guitar without a real one (like how a smoker puts things in their mouth randomly when they crave a cigarette).

    As for posers? music makes us feel good, so I would think its a crude form of dance to be a part of the jives. Or if you were living in Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, it would be the way of life.
    Voted for by Molzahn.
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  • I can't dance
    One of my (very few!) flaws. I look embarassing in any attempt to dance that isn't the "middle school couple swaying", or bobbing my head and foot a little while staying in place. Granted, sometimes I'll make a drunken fool of myself flailing my appendages around the bar during some classics, but that's a different story...

    Point is, just because I can't dance doesn't mean I don't feel the music in me. It's practically pulling at my soul and asking it to dance sometimes. I can't express the way if makes me feel through dance, so I have to move my hands and make a stupid face. Still not exactly sexy looking, but something people can't knock you for lol
    Voted for by Weydon.
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  • Alas,
    I feel powerful.

    The only other instrument I can play is the 'play' button, and Mary's Lamb upside down on the piano.
    Voted for by Oral Fixation.
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