Scales are both the most important and the most tedious part of any practice regimen, but they're still a lot less complicated than, say, feelings.

A study by the Martin Prosperity Institute assigned each metropolitan area in the United States a "Metro Music Index" according to the concentration of musicians and of businesses in the music industry. Ongoing studies are also incorporating online information from networks central to the music industry, such as MySpace.

The top 10 metro areas with the largest index are:
1. Nashville, TN
2. New York, NY
3. Los Angeles, CA
4. San Francisco, CA
5. Seattle, WA
6. Las Vegas, NV
7. Portland, OR
8. New Orleans, LA
9. Rochester, NY
10. Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN

I'd like to add "true/you/do" to the list, particularly from older songs.

The statistics are a little skewed thanks to the often-forgotten 1973 single "Yeah, Baby, Yeah! Love! Yeahhhhghhhh!!" which featured David Lee Roth wailing the title for three and a half minutes over a sitar drone.

I don't know if that's true... we've had at LEAST as many "lol Skrillex" and "I will bear Dave Grohl's children" posts as "lol Nickelback" posts.