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How Many Times Do You Have To Listen To Understand A Piece Of Music?

Speaking solely about popular music, broadly speaking, it takes 2 to 3 listens to figure out if I like something.  Roughly meaning do I want to hear it again.  To get to the point where I think I understand the piece can take dozens of listens.  A big factor in how digestible a piece is whether it's a genre, artist or song I'm already familiar with.  At least for me truly new music is harder to get into.

Just curious as to how others experience new music.

onhwy61

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I want to thank everybody for participating in this discussion.  I should not have used the word "understand" in starting this post.  Appreciate is more towards what I intended.

Also, I'm referring to popular type music not anything highbrow or intentionally challenging.

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