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EARLY LEARNING / Teaching Your Child Music / Re: Learning more about neuropsychology in connection with music education
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on: August 09, 2013, 05:55:52 PM
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How Rhythm And Steady Beat Being Developed From The Neuropsychology Point Of View
Many think that beginners play music pieces or dance out of beat, because they don’t have sense of beat and this ‘sense’ ought to be developed first. We forget that every one of us, in our mother’s womb and during our months of nursing and bottle feeding got plenty of such training much before anything else.
Let me explain how ‘senses’ or ‘feeling’ of steady beat get connected with development of rhythm.
First, ‘beat’ and ‘rhythm’ are not the same. A good metaphor is that beat is the ‘skeleton’ and rhythm is the “meat”, Neurologically, we have all developed neuron connections in our brain to be able to ‘catch the beat’ and reproduce the beat by using very simple moves, such as clapping, beating drums or making simple moves.
In fact, our body has tendency to be ‘hypnotized’ by steady beats (because this sense already imbedded in our cortex) and easily connects to the similar waives from outside world.
In this regard, if music, dance, gymnastics (you name it) educators start training with clapping, marching, playing 1-2 notes or developing any other simple skill claiming that this is the necessary first step to learn complex skill, it is not accurate from a neuropsychology point of view.
ANY complex skill (ballet, gymnastics, playing instrument) is a COMPLEX skill requiring all of the neurons responsible for our general and fine motor skills to be connected and work as a whole.
Therefore, for example, in learning piano it is better to compromise playing rhythmically in order to thoroughly develop connection between each move of each finger with neuron pathways in our brain. It establishes strong foundation for developing a COMPLEX skill. If one of the necessary part of such foundation is missing (balance, visual perception of music text, use of only certain fingers instead of all of them), the gap will occur that could be an obstacle in future development.
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EARLY LEARNING / Teaching Your Child Music / Learning more about neuropsychology in connection with music education
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on: August 09, 2013, 04:28:43 PM
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Hi, everyone! I am currently working on parents/ teachers training putting Soft Mozart Academy together. While working on materials/quizzes I suddenly realized that many of us have really need to know more about this science. As for my personal experience, many obstacles of teaching in general and especially in teaching skills could be easily understood with the help of neurophysiology. What helped this science to develop and why is it relatively young (most of the discoveries, data and researches were provided just in 20-21 century)? Unfortunately World War 1 and World War 2 + modern wars contributed a lot to our knowledge about how our brain functions and how it affect not just our bodies, but also our minds. Brain wounds helped scientists to understand many (not all!) of the things that we should know. There are a lot of literature on Internet about it. You may start from Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeuropsychologyI was working on the subject for decades collecting my data and research on that. My book 'You CAN me a musician' has a lot to do with neurophysiology as science http://pianolearningsoftware.com/collections/learning-aids/products/book-you-can-be-a-musician-by-hellene-hiner-downloadable_p_36-htmlBut it seems to me that I need to cut this 'elephant' to more pieces and write more little, but digestible information. I will try my best! But my first question to all of you is: which hemisphere of every human being is getting to be developed first and at what age it passes it's priority to another? |
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EARLY LEARNING / Teaching Your Child Music / Re: Need someone to interpret the basics in a music sheet
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on: July 28, 2013, 06:28:25 PM
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Hi, Babymum! Sure! I usually explain to my students that music is like a train. Each 'cart' has the same amount of seats. At the the beginning of the music you can find 2 numbers: on the top is the amount of 'seats' of each car and on the bottom is a value-duration of each seat. Here is the most common 'seat sizes'. 1 seat is for an average adult - *quarter note* 1 seat also could be shared by 2 kids - *eighths* 2 seats is for chubby one  - 'half note' etc The are a lot of other stories like this in our Academy.  Join us to learn! As for your question about the vertical. Children look at their toys from different perspective and do not have any problems recognizing every part of it. In fact, looking at the Grand Staff vertically keep the right hemisphere tuned and contributes to spatial thinking needed in math in future. I Recommend you to look at brill kids 3-year-old boy reading horizontal notes after such training: http://forum.brillkids.com/teaching-your-child-music/3-8-yrs-old-and-nutcrackers-from-softmozart/ |
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