musical memory is it different to normal memory?

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ds3 cna rememeb songs and sing after hearing them once
is this auspicious or a pile of old crap int he vein of " if oyu could rememebr your times tabels liek you do those pop songs"kind of mum lecture?

...and check otu the typing in the title
wowsers!

DD is the same! She can remember songs so easily. She is pretty hopeless at maths but has improved SO much whilst learning her tables, which she did to a very annoying musical tables tape dancing and singing round the room like a complete idiot!!

And wowsers indeed at the title.

Dd2 has this ability with music, too. It annoys me that she won't learn an instrument or even singing. Wish I had her gift - my musical mum has had to come to terms with having four duffers when it comes to all things tuneful!

I had that sort of memory as a child. It's still useful for memorising boring numbers eg PIN codes: I make them into a tune and then just have to hum the tune to myself to remember the number.

Now if anyone can figure out how to use this to help me remember where I have put dd1's library card, that would be lovely.

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he seems ot knwo all of JOseph too"! very handy

I think, it is becasue welearn better with rhymes and repeating.

Times tables made into a song will be learnt alot better than by rote.

I think so, I can remember most song words after only hearing the song once or twice (probably an association with the tune, as others have said), yet I struggle to remember what I did yesterday sometimes!