How playing an instrument benefits your brain

[Dave W]

[amptech]

...drummers included?

[Lightyear]

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.

[westen44]

That's a lot of info in such a short video. 

[uwe]

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!

[hieronymous]

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.

[westen44]

Oh, the "a prima vista" or whatever it's called.  I can't do it, either.