Vannessa Mae is in BBC1 at 9.00 tonight. The programme will carry out research into Nurture v Nature.
Kevin
Gosh she’s pretty! Nice clothes too.
She is. I wonder if her lips are real, very nice anyway!
And yes I don’t think the programme was very enlightening beyond that. It did make some interesting points but didn’t go very far in answering the question.
What was the piont in firing a pulse at the part of her brain that controls motion and showing that she couldn’t write when fired on ? Perhaps they thought a musicians brain was so strong in this area that it wouldn’t be affected.
A strage programme in a way. Was it an example of dummed down science reporting as there was very little real scientific research and findings explained.
Some pionts I picked up on as interesting:
one expert said top level players would have practiced between 5000 and 10000 hours to get there. 12 hours a day for a year would be 4380 hours.
Vannesa’s fearlessness and desire for new sensation were impotant aspects that help her to be able to reach and perform at the levels she has.
Most classical musicians are introvert (but she is extrovert). I suspect this would not be the case for other forms.
Kevin
I was interested that practiced honed the brain activity into a smaller area. I hadn’t realised that practice caused an upping of brain efficiency not just building and strengthening pathways.
I wasn’t convinced about the introvert assumption for musicians, performance to my mind requires extrovert qualities to quite a high degree.
The other thing I wondered at was whether her highly developed listening abilities were the result of a naturally well performing set of lugholes or practice at discerning fine intervals, the latter I would guess.
She was also highly competitive and that is something I have myself noticed over the years in many successfully ‘creative’ people.