Any tips on memorizing? I have one work I'm playing that I have
memorized.. except for *five*measures* [!]. I can't figure out why I have such a block with them and don't know how to fix that. On another I
worker pretty hard to remember an eight measure chunk and I was doing
great.. but when I tried it the next day it was pretty much gone.
Thanks! /bernie\
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I too had a lot of difficulty memorizing pieces until I learned to visualize. From a practical standpoint, there are two kinds of memory, nerve (finger) memory and conscious (visual) memory. I did a video on visual memory which might be of some help;chunks. It was very effective. It also used a system of constant review.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoaRVY7CeiM&list=PLCB27A1D7FA3F7B59&index=12
Learnwell, I haven't read the whole article you recommended, but from what I read, it sounds reasonable. i will finish it. I once taught from a algebra book by John Saxon that spread out concepts throughout the book instead of teaching in discrete
On Sunday, 2 May 2021 at 01:23:07 UTC+1, Murdick wrote:chunks. It was very effective. It also used a system of constant review.
I too had a lot of difficulty memorizing pieces until I learned to visualize. From a practical standpoint, there are two kinds of memory, nerve (finger) memory and conscious (visual) memory. I did a video on visual memory which might be of some help;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoaRVY7CeiM&list=PLCB27A1D7FA3F7B59&index=12 >>
Learnwell, I haven't read the whole article you recommended, but from what I read, it sounds reasonable. i will finish it. I once taught from a algebra book by John Saxon that spread out concepts throughout the book instead of teaching in discrete
I used to attend poetry open mics and even on the rare occasion that I'd use a haiku I'd read it off paper. I was terror-stricken for the five year period of going to those nights and I can't imagine things being any different with music. The materialwas mine and lack of self-love came into this. The notion of playing others' music underscores the role of love of the material in all kinds of 'performance'.
Motivations for our enjoyment of music and the wish to play it come into this don't they? I have several classical guitar CDs but I'm not super-bothered by it, I like the instrument and its potential but I'm uninterested in overly busy music and notimpressed with virtuoso skills. We have different motivations and different kinds of focus within our musical likes, but I would think these can be about displacement, can be vice-like or akin to addiction.
Maybe wanting to master some music is like vainly wanting to 'understand' a particular academic who might really be guilty of sophistry or having structured a neurosis into something that has the appearance of legitimate thought. There's vanity in thisbut also a lack of being centred - if I master this piece, I'm less empty. If I can hold a conversation about this philosopher, who killed himself after his fourth paperweight was published, I'm less empty...
Struggles of all kinds make life interesting, but we can invest badly, we can fail to become centred. I've met people for whom relationships are still a bit of a game, a playground to exercise childhood issues barely understood, because the person hasn't found a centre.
So a person might be very self-aware and rounded and still want to 'memorise' these pieces. I wonder how much of this music would exist if the composers were themselves not prone to displacement and musically invested dissembling. There are rockguitarists who have classical techniques but who in interviews are spectacularly foolish people, children really. They are all vice. They are the obvious end of the spectrum.
If you love the music, if it's properly connected with you, would memory be an issue? And if you can't 'memorise' it, is that necessarily your 'fault'?
Learnwell, I haven't read the whole article you recommended, but from what I read, it sounds reasonable. i will finish it. I once taught from a algebra book by John Saxon that spread out concepts throughout the book instead of teaching in discretechunks. It was very effective. It also used a system of constant review.
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