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My college degree was in classical piano, while I've mostly emphasized pop and jazz since then. I honestly don't really understand the study they're writing abo

My college degree was in classical piano, while I've mostly emphasized pop and jazz since then. I honestly don't really understand the study they're writing about here, but I have to say I don't really identify with Keith Jarret's quote here. Jazz is just another way to do music and it requires a different way of thinking, but I've never really looked at it as requiring any kind of "rewiring" or context shift. In general when playing classical I miss the playfulness and individuality of jazz, and when playing lead sheets I miss the narrative sweep of classical music. At least with my pop songwriting I can try to bring in a little of both.

dahart 9y ago
> Jazz is just another way to do music and it requires a different way of thinking, but I've never really looked at it as requiring any kind of "rewiring" or context shift. They're using overly dramatic language like "rewiring" to talk about a different way of thinking. Of course it's a different way of thinking, classical is performance, and jazz is improv. Nobody would be surprised if they said that doing dishes vs differentiating polynomials used different parts of the brain, but somehow it's supposed to be news that classical and jazz music do.
- cma 9y ago
  >They're using overly dramatic language like "rewiring" to talk about a different way of thinking. I don't see the word rewiring or rewire anywhere in the article.
  - dahart 9y ago
    Thanks, yes, the article doesn't use that word specifically. I quoted the parent comment. The article, and especially the headline, does use somewhat misleading language (as both @tunesmith's comment and the very top comment here is pointing out, among others) that is trying to imply that the brains of these two types of musicians is fundamentally different, e.g., "their brains started to replan the actions faster than classical pianists" and "their brains showed stronger awareness of the fingering". The language is implying a rewiring, and objectifying the brains of different musicians as being static and responsible for the difference, rather than talking about the plasticity of the human brain and the learned differences between wildly different tasks.

dahart 9y ago

> Jazz is just another way to do music and it requires a different way of thinking, but I've never really looked at it as requiring any kind of "rewiring" or context shift. They're using overly dramatic language like "rewiring" to talk about a different way of thinking. Of course it's a different way of thinking, classical is performance, and jazz is improv. Nobody would be surprised if they said that doing dishes vs differentiating polynomials used different parts of the brain, but somehow it's supposed to be news that classical and jazz music do.

cma 9y ago
>They're using overly dramatic language like "rewiring" to talk about a different way of thinking. I don't see the word rewiring or rewire anywhere in the article.
- dahart 9y ago
  Thanks, yes, the article doesn't use that word specifically. I quoted the parent comment. The article, and especially the headline, does use somewhat misleading language (as both @tunesmith's comment and the very top comment here is pointing out, among others) that is trying to imply that the brains of these two types of musicians is fundamentally different, e.g., "their brains started to replan the actions faster than classical pianists" and "their brains showed stronger awareness of the fingering". The language is implying a rewiring, and objectifying the brains of different musicians as being static and responsible for the difference, rather than talking about the plasticity of the human brain and the learned differences between wildly different tasks.