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Offline chopiabin

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How do you memorize?
on: January 19, 2004, 01:58:44 AM
Do most people memorize the order of the notes of a piece like "next comes that C major chord, or e-f-a-c-g-d-c"? Or do they just get to where they don't think about it? I've never memorized the order of notes or the score, I just memorize the piece somehow. I was just wondering.

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Offline Rach3

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Re: How do you memorize?
Reply #2 on: January 19, 2004, 06:44:12 AM
I don't think of the notes or the sounds or the chords as much as what the music IS, which I suppose subconciously is a mixture of pretty much everything along with an understanding of the music itself. Notes are only a representation of what is to be memorized.

Scriptus solus imago cujus discendum est. (sorry, couldn't resist)
"Never look at the trombones, it only encourages them."
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Offline GG

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Re: How do you memorize?
Reply #3 on: January 19, 2004, 08:20:29 AM
Bernhard, thank you so much for your link. Nicely written.

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Re: How do you memorize?
Reply #4 on: January 19, 2004, 01:21:10 PM
You are welcome. :)
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Offline BoliverAllmon

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Re: How do you memorize?
Reply #5 on: January 19, 2004, 05:16:56 PM
I memorize the patterns, chord progressions, and anything that stands out.

boliver

Offline GraceStansbury

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Re: How do you memorize?
Reply #6 on: January 20, 2004, 08:11:35 AM
just like boliver, patterns, chords and little tweeks that catch my attention
Next to silence, that which best expresses the inexpressible is music.

Offline jeff

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Re: How do you memorize?
Reply #7 on: January 20, 2004, 08:26:12 AM
i've found that concentrating on the physical sensation of the contact between my fingers and the keys (rather than the movements made by my fingers/hands/arms to play) helps aid my memory, and perhaps also helps sort out some technical problems.
i guess the reason it seems to help my memory could just be because it focusses my attention better, and maybe helps me relax
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