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Title: How playing an instrument benefits your brain
Post by: Dave W on November 08, 2014, 10:00:59 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0JKCYZ8hng#t=31
Title: Re: How playing an instrument benefits your brain
Post by: amptech on November 09, 2014, 03:44:20 AM
...drummers included?
Title: Re: How playing an instrument benefits your brain
Post by: Lightyear on November 09, 2014, 10:50:25 AM
I would be very interested in what a drummer's brain activity looked like - doing four different things at once all in syncopation with the other is freak show scary to me.  The research might also explain the other, er, "differences" with drummers as well. :rolleyes:
Title: Re: How playing an instrument benefits your brain
Post by: westen44 on November 09, 2014, 01:36:27 PM
That's a lot of info in such a short video. 
Title: Re: How playing an instrument benefits your brain
Post by: uwe on November 10, 2014, 11:51:24 AM
I now feel a lot better. I'll never feel guilty again about listening to music analytically (taking it apart layer for layer while hearing it), from now on I'll, yes!!!, brag about it!
Title: Re: How playing an instrument benefits your brain
Post by: hieronymous on November 10, 2014, 04:25:15 PM
I would love to include myself in this more advanced group of people, except I have never been able to engage in much "disciplined, structured practice"...

One of the things that struck me about the video's understanding of music was that playing music entailed sight reading.
Title: Re: How playing an instrument benefits your brain
Post by: westen44 on November 10, 2014, 07:45:59 PM
Oh, the "a prima vista" or whatever it's called.  I can't do it, either.