Learning more about neuropsychology in connection with music education

[ashlymcgee]

Ah, thanks! That's means a lot to us.

[SoftMozart]

Well, I will continue my explanations in this thread.

One of the most important rule of neurophysiology is to use with young children as many 'channels' of perception in learning something new as possible: vision, hearing, voice, touch even smell!

With Soft Mozart we also use fairy tales to explain very abstract music concepts. This year we are starting Soft Mozart Theater for exactly the same purpose:

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/-v5vCAzegQ8&rel=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/-v5vCAzegQ8&rel=1</a>

[SoftMozart]

There are 2 pictures that explains, what it takes to learn playing instruments successfully and how we get to abstract thinking through our main channels of perception.

[SoftMozart]

As you can see on the first picture, there are 4 'legs of table' that we need for successful piano learning:

1. SPEECH MEMORY - this skill every child develop from birth by mimicking the words from people around. This is very strong point of support in learning music notes on speech level. To repeat 'do do so so la la so' is much easier for a beginner then to 'c c g g a a g'
Russian school of music, Yamaha and Suzuki has a lot of success teaching beginners with the use of Solfeggio. It simply links speech to pitch. It also promote music memory, develops music ear and voice.

Here is an amazing video of students, who sing jazz song with Solfeggio syllables. I won't be surprised that after such training all of them will develop ability to write this music down, transpose and create their own pieces:

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/eyVeQI84Bdc&rel=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/eyVeQI84Bdc&rel=1</a>

[SoftMozart]

Here is a video about VISUAL PERCEPTION in learning music literacy:

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/5sMGHC3A2aM&rel=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/5sMGHC3A2aM&rel=1</a>

[SoftMozart]

In connection with my previous post here is a video about baby Cayla teaching her little sister how to play 'Hot Cross Buns' with Soft Mozart.
Ability to SEE a note and its connection with a key is CRUCIAL in teaching music as a written language:

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/z-23XXbrTzA&rel=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/z-23XXbrTzA&rel=1</a>

[SoftMozart]

A video about speech to pitch post.

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/mLtbEXQCMVc&rel=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/mLtbEXQCMVc&rel=1</a>

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