Guitar zero : the new musician and the science of learning
On the eve of his 40th birthday, Gary Marcus, a renowned scientist with no discernible musical talent, learns to play the guitar and investigates how anyone -- of any age -- can become musical. Do you have to be born musical to become musical? Do you have to start by the age of six? Using the tools of his day job as a cognitive psychologist, Gary Marcus becomes his own guinea pig as he takes up the guitar. In a powerful and incisive look at how b...