Listening to recordings as a way to learn a piece of music has been a successful model for the Suzuki method of music instruction. This same method of learning music can be applied with other teaching models. Performance psychologist and Juilliard alumnus & faculty member Noa Kageyama recently wrote an article about a University of Texas study on the effectiveness of listening when practicing. In their study, they found that the students who heard the recording started out with an average accuracy score of 52.18 and over the course of the practice session improved to an average score of 99.96 (a 92% improvement). The group which was not given a recording to listen to started out at about the same level of accuracy – 48.71 – but only improved to an average score of 84.16 (a gain of only 73%).
You can read the entire article online at BulletProofMusician.com
You can read the entire article online at BulletProofMusician.com
