Why read Tone Deaf and All Thumbs? An Invitation to Music-Making?

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A neurologist and amateur musician explores the connections between neurology and music and provides an informative look into how and why people make music, how human beings hear music, and how musicians remember what they're playing

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1 author picked Tone Deaf and All Thumbs? An Invitation to Music-Making as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Laurie Scott and Cornelia Watkins

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Neurologist Frank Wilson wrote this smart, funny, insightful book to connect his understanding of neuroscience to his own experience learning to play the piano as an adult.

While sharing his expertise about neural pathways and auditory perception, he pokes fun at himself, offers amusing anecdotes about other “experts” in various fields, writes lymmerics, and makes jokes when you least expect it: “We all know about biceps, triceps, deltoids, and ‘pecs’ but who ever heard of somebody having a knockout set of abductor digiti quinti minimi, or a breathtaking flexor pollicis brevis?”

His light touch creates an engaging and enlightening balance…

From Laurie's list on The best books about music teaching and learning.