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This is Your Brain on Piano – How Lessons Make You a Better Thinker
Piano is GREAT for your brain – check out this choice infographic about how awesome piano lessons are for your brain. Source: This is Your Brain on Piano – How Lessons Make You a Better Thinker
Talent Mindset Infographic (updated)
A helpful music educator pointed out a typo in one of the several versions floating around out there. The link is to a high-resolution PDF, suitable for printing and putting on your practice room wall or band/choir/orchestra room. Here’s the updated version: GrowYourTalent_ThePracticeOfPractice
Antoine Boyer & Yeore Kim – First Song (Charlie Haden)
I love this: how they take their time, develop the song, build complexity and then back down. Such musicianship!
Effects of enriched auditory experience on infants’ speech perception during the first year of life
The evidence keeps rolling in. from the abstract of this study: Results showed that a 1-month laboratory music intervention focusing on rhythm learning enhanced 9-month-old infants’ neural processing not only for music but also for speech. Together, these results suggest that these enriched auditory experiences in infancy may improve infants’ general auditory pattern-detection skills and…
Pearls Before Breakfast: Can one of the nation’s great musicians cut through the fog of a D.C. rush hour? Let’s find out.
Joshua Bell is one of the world’s greatest violinists. His instrument of choice is a multimillion-dollar Stradivarius. If he played it for spare change, incognito, outside a bustling Metro stop in Washington, would anyone notice? Source: Pearls Before Breakfast: Can one of the nation’s great musicians cut through the fog of a D.C. rush hour?…
Frontiers | Timing Deficits in ADHD: Insights From the Neuroscience of Musical Rhythm | Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience
Fascinating study. Here’s the link. Excerpt below. Everyday human behavior relies upon extraordinary feats of coordination within the brain. In this perspective paper, we argue that the rich temporal structure of music provides an informative context in which to investigate how the brain coordinates its complex activities in time, and how that coordination can be…
Practice Space
It’s been nearly 2 years since I’ve had a dedicated practice space, until yesterday. Really, all I need is my horn or a guitar, but with a few extra tools, playing is more fun, I can do more in less time, and I can continue to push my abilities forward. Current long-term goal is to…
The Practice of Practice 