Musicians only use 1/3 of their brain because making great music uses the other 2/3rds. Sometimes this rule isn’t true when a musician is part of a group, so they can still like study and better themselves without having to burn out just making music, but solo musicians and prominent bandleaders are hopeless. The best you can hope for from a musician is that they are at least self aware of their own idiocy and can laugh at it or keep it in check, but this quality doesn’t survive very long once someone makes several million dollars.
It closely approximates my experience having known dozens of musicians, I’ll have my neuroscientist friend weigh in later today. Keep refreshing this thread until you see her response
Musicians only use 1/3 of their brain because making great music uses the other 2/3rds. Sometimes this rule isn’t true when a musician is part of a group, so they can still like study and better themselves without having to burn out just making music, but solo musicians and prominent bandleaders are hopeless. The best you can hope for from a musician is that they are at least self aware of their own idiocy and can laugh at it or keep it in check, but this quality doesn’t survive very long once someone makes several million dollars.
I don’t think this is how brains work.
It’s not at all how brains work. This person has no idea what they’re talking about.
It closely approximates my experience having known dozens of musicians, I’ll have my neuroscientist friend weigh in later today. Keep refreshing this thread until you see her response
My dad works at Nintendo and is going to ban you from all games.
As a musician of 30+ years, I can safely and accurately say this is not at all true.
In fact the opposite is true. Hope you’re able to understand the article.
As a fellow musician, I’m not able to read
Elton John doesn’t write his own music.
He doesn’t write his own lyrics, he does write his own music