Timeless songs featuring piano intros/solos/back-ups are hard to count. Here are a few examples – Enjoy:
“The human brain is wonderfully adaptive. This ability to change according to conditions and usage is termed plasticity. Contrary to the textbooks of past decades, we now know that the brain can change through the course of a lifetime.
That’s the bright side. Despite the optimism of plasticity, we are subject to “habits of mind.” During early stages of development, neural connections are made that become structural as they are repeated over time. Certain thought patterns, mindsets, and mental strategies become foundational neural networks as they are repeatedly practiced, over and over. Some of these “habits of mind” are positive; some are not. Accumulated experiences append to and reinforce these foundational networks. For better or for worse, the repetitions of life experience embed attitudes, mindsets, behaviors, and even personality.
The brain is changeable, but we’re saddled with fixed circuitry.
As per the adage, “Old habits die hard,” positive change is not an easy path. And, to make matters worse, our fixed neural habits make it difficult even to know what to change. Fixed ideas specialize in defence. The brain is tuned to defend its ensconced patterns. This is an important point and merits reflection. We see what we’ve seen. We see what we expect to see. Patterns jump out to us when they mirror the representations in our brain. Further, dismantling fixed ideas unearths the confusions and problems that these fixed ideas had been holding at bay. So, achieving mental flexibility involves a struggle. It requires courageous objectivity and old-fashioned willpower. In its essence, this ability to reflect and “rewire” is a learned skill—a cognitive strategy that can be developed, practiced, and added to the neural repertoire of foundational skills.” Check this entire exciting, inspirational article by our friend and colleague Dr. Randall Faber, World-renowned educator, composer, concert-pianist, key-note speaker and businessman here: