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A little musical interlude I enjoyed, while taking a break in the taping for my LIDO Telecommunications Essentials elearning series. This is one of my favortie pieces - Schubert's Impromptu in
A flat major. My absolute favortie piece to play is Chopin's Scherzo in B flat minor. I learned why a few years afo. Did you know? - B flat is the key of the universe! However, you and I can't hear it - it is 57 octaves below middle C! So if a black hole hums, it hums at a frequency a million billion times lower than you can hear.

I also have to tie this video into the context it was created in - while recording a telecom essentials elearning program, you see, I'm a telecom educator. And my training as a psychologist, makes me appreciate the psychology of learning. I like to think that introducing this type of moment, a musical interlude, in a classroom or elearning setting works wonders in addressing those high on musical intelligence. If you're not familiar with the fact that we are comprised of multiple intelligences - which govern how we learn, present, and interact - please read Armstrong's 7 Kinds of Smart, or the academic standard, Garnder's Multiple Inteliigences. Another factor that governs how our brain thinks is our sensory style - audio, visual, kinesthetic, and read/write. Clearly music appeals to all four - we can deduce that music can be a powerful method to accelerating learning. But it does depend on the type of music - it has to induce alpha waves or theta waves, not disrupt them! What is the best music for learning by? Experts tell us Baroque is the best music to play while using accelerated learning methods because its cadence is the same as the alpha brain wavestate. Ambient music and meditation in nature settings are also an excellent way to get the mind prepared for accelerated learning exercises.

I hope you have enjoyed my musical interlude - it is may be my last. Tomorrow I am having a joint fusion performed on the middle joint of the left index finger. As the finger will be bent permanently at a 45 degree angle, I don't think I will be able to play my concert pieces - but they tell me I should be able to play "Happy Birthday" just fine :-) But I intend to challenge that - afterall, I did not touch the piano for 23 years! I recorded this video only a few months of sporadic practice in-between business travel. If I could resume my playing, and read music, as if 23 years had not passed, anything is possible!



Music plays a huge role so many things, and learning is one of them.