Helping Popular Musicians Learn by Ear: Analyzing Video Lessons to Inform the Design of Memory-Oriented Human-Recording Interactions
Abstrak
Popular musicians often learn songs by ear, from recordings, using technology that provides control over playback events. However, we know little about these human-recording interactions, and our research goal is to develop novel and useful ones. Guided by a preliminary study of 18 YouTube videos of musicians learning by ear, we performed a grounded-theory analysis of 28 YouTube lessons and an instructional DVD that teaches by-ear learning. Based on our findings, we characterize the sub-tasks musicians follow to learn songs from recordings, their variations, and discuss how memory plays a role in ear learning. Armed with these insights, we offer recommendations for the design of four novel, memory-oriented human-recording interactions—facilitating active listening sessions, restricting playback to fit working memory, extracting musical sequences for memorization, and re-synthesizing the recording to play notes indefinitely—all of which are grounded in real-world observations, and studies in both neuroscience and psychology.
Topik & Kata Kunci
Penulis (2)
Christopher Liscio
Daniel G. Brown
Akses Cepat
- Tahun Terbit
- 2025
- Bahasa
- en
- Total Sitasi
- 1×
- Sumber Database
- Semantic Scholar
- DOI
- 10.1145/3689050.3704953
- Akses
- Open Access ✓