Proper reply later; quick reply to say that i typed up a comment and it was 650 words and not coherent and still didn't say everything i wanted to on this topic: i think you're onto something with the aural/kinaesthetic learner vs. reader thing, BUT i have no way of telling where my 'natural' skills lie because i was raised in a musical culture deeply afraid of letting students learn through aural means and so most of my current audiation and other aural skills (need to sort out in my head what i mean when i say 'aural skills', too) are what i cobbled together from obsessively listening to my favourite music and trying to work out how to play it on the piano/flute or write it down.
Oh, and also that it makes me mad that audiation is not a thing that is generally talked about.
It absolutely makes sense to me that there would be likely be great individual differences as to which particular pattern recognition system is strongest for different people - visual/aural/kinaesthetic - but also that they really need to be strongly linked to audiation to be useful to a high-level musician. I think it would be entirely possible to be an excellent sight-reader without it necessarily being linked strongly to audiation, but obviously it would not be possible to be a strong learner-by-ear without audiation skills, because they are almost the same thing. It is obviously also very possible to be strong at learning aurally without having strong reading skills, because fear of same is the reason we were supposed to avoid much listening and learning-by-ear in the music lessons culture i grew up in. I don't think that it is necessarily as common as legend has it, or that the reasons this happens are to do with the factors it is assumed.
[And also that even though you wouldn't think it would make that much difference, apparently trying to think of myself as someone who is not best-at-reading-over-other-things, even outside of the context of words, is screwing with my head slightly. ahahaha. /o\ IF I AM NOT ~A READER~, THEN WHO AM I?! *pats self on head* - it's okay tiny hyperverbal/hyperlexic!nika, you're allowed to be complex. we contain multitudes and all that.*
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Date: 2015-09-27 03:30 am (UTC)that i typed up a comment and it was 650 words and not coherent and still didn't say everything i wanted to on this topic: i think you're onto something with the aural/kinaesthetic learner vs. reader thing, BUT i have no way of telling where my 'natural' skills lie because i was raised in a musical culture deeply afraid of letting students learn through aural means and so most of my current audiation and other aural skills (need to sort out in my head what i mean when i say 'aural skills', too) are what i cobbled together from obsessively listening to my favourite music and trying to work out how to play it on the piano/flute or write it down.Oh, and also that it makes me mad that audiation is not a thing that is generally talked about.
It absolutely makes sense to me that there would be likely be great individual differences as to which particular pattern recognition system is strongest for different people - visual/aural/kinaesthetic - but also that they really need to be strongly linked to audiation to be useful to a high-level musician. I think it would be entirely possible to be an excellent sight-reader without it necessarily being linked strongly to audiation, but obviously it would not be possible to be a strong learner-by-ear without audiation skills, because they are almost the same thing. It is obviously also very possible to be strong at learning aurally without having strong reading skills, because fear of same is the reason we were supposed to avoid much listening and learning-by-ear in the music lessons culture i grew up in. I don't think that it is necessarily as common as legend has it, or that the reasons this happens are to do with the factors it is assumed.
[And also that even though you wouldn't think it would make that much difference, apparently trying to think of myself as someone who is not best-at-reading-over-other-things, even outside of the context of words, is screwing with my head slightly. ahahaha. /o\
IF I AM NOT ~A READER~, THEN WHO AM I?! *pats self on head* - it's okay tiny hyperverbal/hyperlexic!nika, you're allowed to be complex. we contain multitudes and all that.*