[Who dat?]

I recall trig being the greatest and simplest math class I ever took. The teacher at the time was the keyboardist for Oingo Boingo (he bailed out before they became semi-famous).

He claimed to use trigonometric principles in his music (deciding which chords to play or something – don’t ask me).

That was all about a million years ago though. Like anything else, if you don’t use it for a couple of decades you may as well have never taken it.

[elfman2]

"The teacher at the time was the keyboardist for Oingo Boingo (he bailed out before they became semi-famous). "

No s~t? What’s his name? Where did he teach?

FWIW, I took a physics of music class that explained the relationship of musical intervals. Notes that are an an octave apart are twice the frequency, Fifths and thirds that compose a cord are roughly 150% and 133% apart in frequency and so on. We sense the harmony of that.

[PianoMan]

I recall trig being the greatest and simplest math class I ever took.

I was going to say, what the heck's wrong with trig? I liked trig and found it perfectly clear.

The teacher at the time was the keyboardist for Oingo Boingo

That's hysterical.

[elfman2]

Carl Graves teaches trig?

[TAdams8591]

"I recall trig being the greatest and simplest math class I ever took."

Very much agreed. In fact, we studied it independently and taught it to ourselves. I got a hundred in almost every test.

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

Trig is easy these days what with calculators and everything. I remember when you had to do it without calculators. Now THAT was challenging. Still, once you got it then it wasn't so hard.