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Francisco Gustavo Sánchez Gómez​ (Algeciras; 21 de diciembre de 1947-Playa del Carmen; 25 de febrero de 2014)
"La improvisación es el mayor ejercicio de libertad que un músico puede experimentar, pero para ser libre primero tienes que ser esclavo de la técnica."
Paco de Lucia
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50 years ago today, Gilmour, Waters, Mason and Wright came together to release Pink Floyd’s 9th studio album, Wish You Were Here.
An album adored by millions who share the same yearning and sense of absence that Pink Floyd captured so powerfully.

Today, in 1975 the album 'Wish You Were Here' was released. #PinkFloyd #FYP #WishYouWereHere #1975

🎵🧠 Playing an instrument protects your brain from the mental slowdown that comes with aging, research shows.

It helps your brain stay sharp and focused.

A new study found that older adults who had played music for many years showed brain activity patterns similar to those of much younger people. Normally, as we age, the brain loses efficiency in processing sounds and speech, so it compensates by working harder and increasing connections between brain regions. But in musicians, the brain didn’t need this extra effort, their neural activity looked more like that of young adults, suggesting that musical training helps preserve healthy brain function instead of just compensating for decline.

Researchers studied 25 older musicians, 25 older non-musicians, and 24 young non-musicians using brain scans while participants tried to identify syllables masked by background noise. The older non-musicians showed the expected “compensatory” overactivity in both brain hemispheres, while older musicians displayed more efficient, youthful-like brain connectivity, especially in areas that link hearing with movement. These patterns matched stronger performance in the speech-in-noise test, meaning the musicians could pick out words more easily in distracting environments. The researchers call this effect the “Hold-Back Upregulation” hypothesis, where musical training creates cognitive reserve, mental resilience built over years of stimulating activities, that helps the brain maintain its networks rather than overexerting to make up for losses.

paper
“Long-term musical training can protect against age-related upregulation of neural activity in speech-in-noise perception” by Lei Zhang, Bernhard Ross, Yi Du and Claude Alain, 15 July 2025, PLOS Biology.

We are delighted to share a very happy moment with you all. The heart of our school Mr. Almas has been blessed with a Son today. Our prayers and best wishes for the newborn and the family.

Congratulations to Team Alpha for successfully hosting such an amazing event!!!

Ershad Zaman at Guitar Master Class - GMC Session 2