These feats are routine at Meadowmount, in part because the teachers take the idea of ◊ chunking to its extreme. Students scissor each measure of their sheet music into horizontal strips, which are stuffed into envelopes and pulled out in random order. They go on to break those strips into smaller fragments by altering rhythms.
— ❐ The Talent Code with an interesting ◊ learning method
- this article also makes an interesting connection:
- > Meadowmounters scissor their sheet music into strips, learn each strip, then rebuild the entire piece. This reconstructive act (which, btw, is exactly how teenage Ben Franklin taught himself to write ⋱ write mini essay)