Role of daily musical activity in acquisition of musical skill: comparisons between young musicians and nonmusicians

Abstract

A song memorization experiment was conducted in order to clarify that people can acquire high musical skills from daily musical activities. Fourteen participants with formal musical training and seven participants without formal musical training participated in the experiment. Half of the participants with formal training did not actively engage in daily music activities such as karaoke and popular music listening. The other half of the participants had both a high level of exposure to daily music activities and formal music training. The remaining participants had not received formal training, but actively engaged in daily music activities. Participants were asked to memorize the same Japanese pop song over four 10-minute practice sessions. Surprisingly, participants without formal training could memorize the song better than the participants with formal music training. The result indicated that people can acquire a high level of music skills from daily music activities

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