Stop memorizing and polish or continue memorizing ??

[kghayesh]

I had a general question about the approach to take when learning new pieces.
What i usually do is start from the begining of the piece and memorize it HS and then HT slowly. Then, after memorizing some bars HT slowly, they move on to the polishing phase, where i work on getting it up to speed.

This way, i have like two modes of learning 1.memorizing, 2.polishing. I usually memorize at a pretty well speed (about 10-15 bars per day). But, what i am confused at is that if i continued memorizing i will reach a point where i can play the whole thing so slowly but with many memory lapses (coz i didn't have time to polish the stuff i memorized before as i am - moving on ).

Should i first memorize the whole thing and then polish all of it as a whole piece?? or just divide it into many parts (maybe a couple of musical phrases per part) and then don't move on to the next part until the previous is polished and playable at speed???

Advice please and if u don't understand my question please tell me so i can elaborate more coz i am really confused.

[rc]

Polish each section before moving on.

Because it's easier to get each section down than to go back afterwards, fixing everything. You'll miss less and end up with a better end-result.

You could always just try each approach and see which gets better results.