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How playing an instrument benefits your brain
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enrique
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Joined: Wed May 02, 2012 3:56 pm Posts: 157 Location: Mexico City
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Re: How playing an instrument benefits your brain
Regarding music and language... I just spend last Sunday afternoon listening to (and talking with) the great musician Michael Manring. He talked a bit about music & language, and he said something interesting: he thinks music is not a language, but that rather, language is music... if you look at how language was born, before we had any words at all, verbal communication was all about making sounds, trying to convey meaning through those sounds. So it would have sounded a bit like music.
Even today, the accent with which people speak the same language in different regions, sounds musical to outsiders. I've often heard people from other regions of Mexico tell us that we "speak like singing" (hablamos "cantadito") in Mexico City, and people from DF say the same about the accent they hear in other regions (particularly northern regions of Mexico).
Anyway, just a thought on that which I think is interesting. And of course music predates language, so there's something to it; our voice and body were our first instruments.
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Wed Nov 19, 2014 12:33 pm |
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Olivier
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Joined: Thu Dec 27, 2007 12:47 pm Posts: 1278
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Re: How playing an instrument benefits your brain
Per Boysen wrote: But hey, isn't it funny that the more you play the less inclined you become to use your new bonus brain cycles for thinking! I mean, since you actually need to "un-think" to be able to make music. You're damn right Per. It's as if these new circuits put themselves in autopilot the more you use them.
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Thu Nov 20, 2014 5:06 am |
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nashorn
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Joined: Thu Aug 13, 2009 5:31 am Posts: 482 Location: Freiburg, Germany
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Re: How playing an instrument benefits your brain
enrique wrote: And of course music predates language, (...) Actually, that's far from settled. They are closely linked, but it is difficult to find evidence which came first. (Although, as a musician, I would like to think that music came first )
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Thu Nov 20, 2014 5:47 am |
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Alain
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Joined: Wed Dec 09, 2009 5:02 am Posts: 2615 Location: Shawinigan, Quebec, Canada
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Re: How playing an instrument benefits your brain
Being a huge fan of improvisation and always exploring, I really have the feeling that my brain never stop when I play. I'm always in search of something new. It doesn't mean that I always find it but I'm searching all the time. And, honestly, I like to do it that way. I don't play or learn covers (which is another way to search tricks) but my way to be a searcher in music is just different.
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Thu Nov 20, 2014 7:02 am |
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carvingcode
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Joined: Thu Nov 21, 2013 5:53 am Posts: 768 Location: Dayton, Ohio
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Re: How playing an instrument benefits your brain
Kataway - My approach is similar to yours. Improv: seeing what comes as I move around an instrument is really interesting and often amazing.
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Thu Nov 20, 2014 10:46 am |
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