Your learning style impacts the way you understand information and solve problems. Knowing the percentage to which you lean on a certain learning style can help when you are learning new repertoire, absorbing information about theory and practice, and considering ways to grow your singer small business.<\/p>\n

For the purposes of this post, we’ll break it down into three areas: auditory, visual, and tactile.<\/p>\n

Auditory<\/h3>\n

We all know those musicians who can listen to a song and then immediately sing it back note-for-note. Or, those friends who never needed to take notes in class because they were able to remember the lecture perfectly. Those learners store information by the way it sounds. Auditory learning style adherents take very well to spoken instructions.<\/p>\n

In music, auditory learning can take the form of listening to recordings, vocal modeling, reading the text of a piece out loud, countsinging, and having your instructors speak through objectives. Can you add to this list?<\/p>\n

Visual<\/h3>\n

One would assume that all musicians are auditory learners.\u00a0While musicians are more auditorily skilled, that may not always be their primary or preferred\u00a0learning style.<\/p>\n

As it pertains to music, I’ve always thought of myself as\u00a0much more of a visual learner. Scat-singing in jazz, harmonic dictation, and rote learning songs have been difficult in my past. However, hand me the lead sheet, show me the orchestral score, or\u00a0put some Curwen hand signs to the song and I’m right back in the game. The visual element helps us see what we are learning.<\/p>\n

Visual learners in music use flashcards to memorize historical facts or theory concepts, create mental imagery for their repertoire, write notes in lessons and lectures, and love to color code. Musical visual learners need to see<\/strong> things, not just hear things, to learn.<\/p>\n