Learning Styles

According to Wikipedia, “a learning style is the method of learning particular to an individual that is presumed to allow that individual to learn best. It has been proposed that teachers should assess the learning styles of their students and adapt their classroom methods to best fit each student's learning style.”

However, that only works if everyone in the class has the same style. Better, perhaps, to find a teaching method that addresses the special needs of all learning styles simultaneously.

The basic learning styles are said to be sense-based:
Auditory learning occurs through hearing;
Kinesthetic learning occurs through touching and doing;
Visual learning occurs through seeing, demonstrations and body language.

The ThumMusic System is unique in that it presents musical information to all three of these senses in a simple, consistent, logical manner, with each sense reinforcing awareness of the consistency of the information presented to the others.

For example, the shape of any given interval – say, the perfect fifth – is the same everywhere on the ThumMusic Keyboard. Auditory learners can hear this interval’s consistency; kinesthetic learners can touch it; visual learners can see it. Each sense reinforces the other, emphasizing the consistency and importance of intervals to the structure of music.

No person learns exclusively through one learning style. Visual learners may learn more efficiently by sight, but they learn by touch and hearing, too, although not perhaps as efficiently.

Because the ThumMusic System presents musical information to all three of these senses simultaneously, in a simple and consistent manner, it increases the learning efficiency of

1. Individuals, whose primary learning style’s needs are met – and their secondary styles, too; and
2. Classes, by meeting the needs of all the different styles equally and simultaneously.