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Can Anyone Learn To Sing? For Most Of Us, The Answer Is Yes

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Sing

The act of singing looks simple but actually involves highly skilled control and coordination of muscles – and these muscles need to be both flexible and strong. True control comes from training.

A person needs to be able to control the air pressure in their lungs and use their abdominal muscles to push air through the trachea, where it meets the vocal folds, which start to vibrate. In a really good singer, vocal health, posture and alignment, breath management are matched with imagination, self-expression and creativity.

As singing voice teacher Jeannette Lovetri writes:

It takes about 10 years to be a master singer. Ten years of study, investigation, involvement, experience, experiment, exploration, and development, and in some way, that’s when you start really being an artist.

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Giving Students Choices, Can Dramatically Improve Learning

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Choice matters

Why choice matters

Intuitively, you’d think that maybe learning is enhanced because people are more engaged and process things more deeply when they get to make choices about their learning. And there might be some of that involved, but the colored ball and painting examples suggest that this can’t be all of it.

Some notable researchers in this area believe that it’s also a matter of self-efficacy. That feeling like we’re in control of a situation (autonomy) increases the sense that we’ll also be successful at the task at hand (self-efficacy). And that when our self-efficacy goes up, we’re more motivated, our focus is heightened, and all the factors that need to be present for maximal learning all come together.

There is also the possibility that autonomy could facilitate more positive feelings in the learning process too. Which is associated with the release of the neurotransmitter dopamine, that in turn has been implicated in the memory consolidation of motor skills.

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Listening to a Recording Before Practicing May Help Us Learn Faster

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Listening to a recording

Some musicians like to listen to recordings of a piece before learning it. Others like to learn pieces from the score first. Is one approach better than the other? The results of the study seem pretty clear, but it may still be interesting to debate whether listening first is always the best approach in the long run.

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Learning to Learn

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Learning

The following have proven to be the best methods to teach people the priceless trait of learning how to learn.

  1. Find meaning 
  2. Avoid cognitive overload 
  3. Active learning works best 
  4. Utilize prior knowledge 
  5. Space out the material and review 
  6. Images work 
  7. Make plenty of mistakes 
  8. Rely on mastery rather than performance 
  9. Write about what you learned 
  10. Create a diverse environment 

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How To Activate Your Brain’s Ability To Learn

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In music, you have scales. In Jiu Jitsu, it’s drilling. Most of us just call it practice. Whatever you label it, many believe that greatness, heck even mere competency, requires training a skill well past proficiency. It’s continuing to practice your free throw even after you’ve nailed every shot. It’s playing through that song one more time even though you’ve made no mistakes. Scientists call this training past the point of improvement ‘overlearning.’ And a recent study in Nature Neuroscience suggests that it might improve performance by altering chemicals in the brain that “lock” in training.

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