Comments on: Make Music, Boost Brain

By: David Bradley

David Bradley — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 10:06:18 +0000

Jon, yeah, I tend to do guitar by ear, but can cope with tab and script if I’ve already got the tune in my head, as it were.

By: David Bradley

David Bradley — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 09:57:54 +0000

Yeah, I think it is the social side of it, that helps. I’m reading Coehlo’s Witch of Portobello at the moment and he talks of the primordial urge to emulate natural rhythms with the earliest forms of music and how this bonded early humans.

By: Wayne Smallman

Wayne Smallman — Sat, 31 May 2008 22:35:16 +0000

I’ve read something similar, but (rather ironically) I can’t remember where!

But what little I do remember, it is the music / social thing. And that it hints at why early man adopted signing rituals…

By: Jon

Jon — Tue, 27 May 2008 08:32:05 +0000

I’ve always been good with names and faces, but also good at phone numbers and birthdays, but I’m really not very good at following tab – I find it much easier to do things by ear most of the time.

I have always been musical, though, and I agree that being able to keep a tune in your head can’t be that dissimilar from keeping a name or a face.

I think I’m actually the other way round from Eva – I remember things far more easily if I hear something than if I see it written down. Much to my ire at exam revision time – why did I let myself sleep in lectures!? ;)

Jon

By: David Bradley

David Bradley — Fri, 23 May 2008 19:09:41 +0000

Interesting, maybe it’s nothing to do with the singing. I took up karate with my son around the same time, perhaps it’s that that’s done the rewiring…

By: Eva

Eva — Fri, 23 May 2008 18:20:32 +0000

I’ve been actively involved in making music in group settings since I was 11, and I have the hardest time remembering names. (I need to see them written down, otherwise I can’t remember. My auditory memory works for melodies, but not for words)
Now I dread to think how I’d do if I *didn’t* do music.