ABSTRACT
Undeniably, acquiring expertise in a domain requires time and effort by the learner. Expert learning involves setting specific and attainable goals, designing and monitoring learning activities and engaging in mindful and reflective learning (Ericsson, 2002). One of the most cognitively complex skills is learning to play a musical instrument, as it requires the development of aural, cognitive, technical, musical, communication and performing skills (Hallam, 2006). Musical performance involves the integration of multimodal sensory and motor information, precise monitoring of the performance through auditory feedback (Altenmüller & Schneider, 2009), as well as the interaction of various memory systems (Chaffin et al., 2009).
