Guitar Zero: The New Musician and the Science of Learning by Marcus Gary

Author:Marcus, Gary [Marcus, Gary]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781101552285
Publisher: Penguin Group
Published: 2012-01-19T05:00:00+00:00

All of this is, I suspect, again symptomatic of human memory limitations. We live, to a remarkable degree, in the present; what happened thirty seconds ago is already rapidly fading from our memory (or at least rapidly becomes harder for us to retrieve). Nicholas Cook tested this fairly explicitly by having people listen to passages from composers such as Beethoven and Liszt that had been doctored so that they ended in keys that were inconsistent with their beginnings. If the key changes happened within a short window, people noticed them, but if a piece gradually shifted from its moorings over a span of a couple of minutes, hardly anyone noticed. (Perhaps this is why nobody seems to mind when a pop song switches from a verse to a bridge that is musically distinct.)

As long as the last few seconds seem coherent, that’s all that matters. In this respect, I am reminded of optical illusions such as the Escher-like devil’s fork, a picture that at first glance appears perfectly ordinary.

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