My Favourite Albums
Pure nostalgia - here's an imperfect list of my favourite albums since I began listening back in the late '70s.
Learning styles are a myth and I am not an auditory learner
I switched on Radio 6 this morning, and the track they were playing had a drum sound which caught my ear. It reminded me of a rototom - a tuned drum which was quite popular in the 80s. I had a set of three in my drum kit.
I doubt many listeners would have made that connection. I suspect many listeners would not even have particularly distinguished that drum sound. I think many people just hear songs in a much less differentiated way, unless they make a real effort. I, like most musicians, tend to hear the guitar, the drums, the bass, the keyboard and the vocals separately.
In other words, I am extracting more information from the audio than some might.
It would be tempting to imagine, therefore, that I would learn better through hearing than through other senses. But that is nonsense. Imagine trying to learn about the physical geography of a country through hearing about it without a map!
But this is exactly the argument made by people who insist they are "visual learners" d…
I doubt many listeners would have made that connection. I suspect many listeners would not even have particularly distinguished that drum sound. I think many people just hear songs in a much less differentiated way, unless they make a real effort. I, like most musicians, tend to hear the guitar, the drums, the bass, the keyboard and the vocals separately.
In other words, I am extracting more information from the audio than some might.
It would be tempting to imagine, therefore, that I would learn better through hearing than through other senses. But that is nonsense. Imagine trying to learn about the physical geography of a country through hearing about it without a map!
But this is exactly the argument made by people who insist they are "visual learners" d…
I went through a huge "Yes" and "Genesis" phase, when a pupil at Greenock Academy in the 70s, but I remember particularly Kraftwek's techno feat "Trans Europ Express", which was the soundtrack of an archaeology dig we Glasgow Uni' First Years did in Aboyne in 1979! Incidentally there is a cafe called Trans Europe Express in Glasgow's Merchant City, off Saltmarket...
ReplyDeleteI was a big Genesis fan too. I never quite got into Yes, but I could sing along to Supper's Ready :)
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