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Musicophilia: The Neurology Of Music

November 2, 2007 By Graham English

MindHacks pointed me to the just launched Musicophilia, the site and book by Oliver Sacks, a neurologist who has become quite popular publishing books about his patients and who also contributes to the advancement of music as a powerful tool for … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Music Education, Prose Tagged With: brain, mind, MindHacks, music therapy, Musicophilia, neurology, neuroscience, Oliver Sacks

Scott Adams ‘Hacks’ His Brain

October 28, 2006 By Graham English

This is an amazing story. First the Dilbert creator loses his voice due to a rare condition known as spasmodic dysphonia. Now he reveals in an amazingly affecting personal blog post how he learned to speak again. In Bodyhack. Full link: Scott … [Read more...]

Filed Under: LifeHacks, Prose Tagged With: BodyHacks, brain, hacks, Language, MindHacks

Hearing and Consciousness

August 21, 2006 By Graham English

From Mind Hacks: Tips & Tools for Using Your Brain Hearing is the first sense we develop in the womb. The regions of the brain that deal with hearing are the first to finish the developmental process called myelination, in which the connecting … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Music Education, Prose Tagged With: Absolute Pitch, absolute pitch ear training, absolute sound, brain, consciousness, Ear Training, EarTrainingHacks, hearing, listening, listening practice, MindHacks, myelination, neurons, perfect pitch, pitch, senses, silence, sound, tuning fork, unconditional listening

Hack Your Musical Mind

August 17, 2006 By Graham English

From Mind Hacks: All abilities are skills; practice something and your brain will devote more resources to it. Brain scanning of musicians has shown that they have larger cortical representations of the body parts they use to play their … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Music Education, Prose Tagged With: beginners, brain, MindHacks, musicians, neuroimaging, neurons, neuroplasticity, Practice, skills

Songwriting For Busy People

February 10, 2006 By Graham English

Mind Hacks posted how choice is demotivating when there are too many options. "Offer students a choice of 6 essays, rather than 30 essays, for extra-credit and more will take up the opportunity if there is less choice of essay titles - and, what … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Music Education, Prose Tagged With: GarageBand, GTD, harmony, iPod, iTunes, Logic Pro, lyrics, melody, MindHacks, mood markings, music notation, recorded audio, rhythm, song titles, Songwriting, tags, tempo, writing lyrics, Writing Music

For Those Of You Who Think You Might Be Tone Deaf

December 29, 2005 By Graham English

From one of my favorite books of 2005, "Mind Hacks : Tips & Tricks for Using Your Brain (Hacks)" (Tom Stafford, Matt Webb), comes a blog post citing The Distorted Tune Test. If you pass (or fail, depending how you look at it), you may be eligible to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Music Education, Prose Tagged With: brain, MindHacks, tone deaf

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