Larry Sherman

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178 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Aug 2026 last heard 3 Aug

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Something You Should Know · How Slowing Down Makes Life Better & Why Every Brain Needs Music · 3 Aug 2026 podcast

Later in life, you may be exposed to other types of music that will change all that, of course.

You'll still like hip hop from the days of your adolescence, but maybe you decide you like Bartok.

I love classical music, but Bartok was something that I could never wrap my head around until somebody came to me and said, you know, you should listen to this.

This is pretty cool.

And they explained to me what Bartok was up to.

And then I started listening to it and realizing it was pretty fascinating.

And then I suddenly liked Bartok.

So it really can be set in some ways early in life, but it's very malleable.

We kind of like different music in different parts of our lives.

Yeah, so I would argue that learning to play a musical instrument, or even to some extent to sing, especially professionally at the level of an opera singer or a diva, is probably one of the most difficult things a human brain can do.

So if you think about what you're doing when you're playing an instrument, let's take a violin, for example.

You've got the bow of the violin in one hand.

You're holding the violin with the other hand.

The other hand is also pressing down on the strings.

They have to find exactly the right position to play those strings.

And the bow has to be played and moved in a very particular way.

So now add to that, the person might be reading music.

So there's information coming into their eyes, going to the back of their brains where visual information is processed.

And then that's going to other parts of the brain, which are memories from what musical notes are.

And then other parts of the brain are sending it to the motor control centers of the brain saying, okay, I want you to move your right finger this way, your left finger on the left hand this way, move the bow in such and such a way.

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