why is it so easy for our brains to memorize songs after 3-4 times of listening to them but way harder to memorize a regular written paragraph?

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why is it so easy for our brains to memorize songs after 3-4 times of listening to them but way harder to memorize a regular written paragraph?

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Patterns make memorization easy. If you sang a paragraph like you sang a song, you would be surprised at how much more you can remember by equating it to a tune.

In my line of work I need to memorize dozens of strings of characters a day, I do so by singing and snapping the characters in groups of three. It makes memorizing them much easier than simply reciting the string plainly, like you would with a paragraph.

Simply put, music is made up of patterns that your brain is wired to recognize and latch onto. This is why songs seem so easy to memorize comparatively.