Doublereed Archive - Posting 000044.txt from 2006/10

From: "Ed B. Flowers" <flowerse@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [DR-L] practice makes perfect?... how much?
Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2006 12:04:36 -0400

Miriam,

This probably explains why brain scans of people listening to music
shows that musicians listen most differently of all. In our minds, we
/finger /the music when we listen.

Edward B. Flowers (ob)
New York City

Miriam Williams wrote:

> Page 193, "This Is Your Brain on Music," Daniel J. Levitin, 2006
>
>
>
> "The emerging picture from such studies is that ten thousand hours of
> practice is required to achieve the level of mastery associated with
> being a
> world-class expert---in anything. In study after study, of composers,
> basketball players, master criminals, and what have you, this number
> comes
> up again and again. Ten thousand hours is equivalent to roughly three
> hours
> a day, or twenty hours a week, of practice over ten years. Of course,
> this
> doesn't address why some people don't seem to get anywhere when they
> practice, and why some people get more out of their practice sessions
> than
> others. But no one has yet found a case in which true world-class
> expertise
> was accomplished in less time. It seems that it takes the brain this
> long
> to assimilate all that it needs to know to achieve true mastery."
>
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> Miriam
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