To get my pre-demo songs a bit better, before hiring pros to do a proper demo, I decided to learn how to sing a bit better. I joined a barbershop chorus and I’m learning tons.
I’ve already noted the possible link between earworms and learning. It interests me strangely how this can manifest, especially with my emerging skills acquisition.
I put on some tracks the other night that I haven’t played for time. Not an easy track to sing along with, too wordy and fast-paced and I don’t really know the words never having had any compelling reason to do so, but I “sing into the hairbrush” nevertheless. As I say it was some time since I last sung along to that track, but This time i actually found i knew the words better than usual.
How come? Thats something I would have to NLP out. Hereis my current model so far: i think that singing in chorus demands knowing the song. Peer group pressure installs that value. So, that demands learning how to learn, a meta-cognitive skill – a cognitive gadget. So, learning to sing socially has conferred a cog. I need to confirm this but i gather the new skill is about, rather than just belting it out along to the tune, that I’m thinking a little bit ahead- a beat or two perhaps. My brain is learning how to “pre-fetch” in computing terms. I’m now noting that this seems to be the case in reheasall – im attempting to pre-fetch the words and pitch now, whereas before any training (or any social need of being a member of a chorus) i might not have done.
This cog makes sense from a formal training angle, although I might not have spotted it if it weren’t for my surprising new superpowers of knowing the words of old songs better now than i did before. This cog seems to have bled over, without my intention, into augmenting previously acquired behaviours outside the specific context of choral singing. I now sem to be prefetching the words and tunes of stuff i learned ages ago where previously i would not.
Again, just an observation I dont know if it means anything or whether it’s useful.
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