Learning pieces you can't read [Bob project]

[Bob]

How do you go about learning a piece that you can't simply read?   esp something chormatic, something you can't play both hands together in time, etc.

[donjuan]

I do it the long and tedious method of taking it apart and memorizing each individual note, and separating the voices.  I would love to hear someone like Bernhard answer this question because I too am looking for a better way.
donjuan

[faulty_damper]

You don't mean that you can't read anything.  You mean that you can't sight read, right?

Play a few notes to hear the melody.  Then repeat it until you memorize it.  Then play the other hand and memorize it.  Then put two hands together.  Play until you can coordinate both hands.

Playing music isn't about reading notes.

[Piazzo22]

Playing music isn't about reading notes.

I liked that  

[Nana_Ama]

If it's something chromatic you could always try making an exercise out of it....Just play hands seperately until you baiscially have parts for the hands by themselves.  Then put them together at a slow tempo

Good Luck

[donjuan]

If it's something chromatic you could always try making an exercise out of it....Just play hands seperately until you baiscially have parts for the hands by themselves.  Then put them together at a slow tempo

Good Luck

Sounds like the kind of thing I would do when studying La Leggierezza...

I tried it..didnt work too well
donjuan