How often do you guys utilize mental play and how much does it help you?

[dontcheeseme]

Is it an integral part of your learning process, or is it something that you barely use, at your level and style.

[dogperson]

I am very confused by your posts and your skill level:
- In one post, you state that you are having trouble with a Grade 3 piece:  playing it accurately and hands together.  You state that you are a Grade 3 level.
- In another post, you list the Chopin Etudes you play ( a bunch of them)

Scriabin Op 8 No 12 (polishing up, not finished)
Chopin Etude Op 10 No 12
Chopin Etude Op 10 No 4
Chopin Etude Op 25 No 11
Chopin Etude Op 25 No 12
other pieces, but I think I only have experience with 2-3 polyphonic pieces lol


- In another post, you ask about the possibility of going from Grade 3 to Grade 8 in one year.

Are you Grade 3 or Grade 8 or above Grade 8. What are you really???  

  If you really want advice here, or anywhere,  you need to be honest about what your needs are and the level of play you can do.  I hope that you will reply with honesty--  and I would encourage other forum members to read the discrepancies in your posts as well before providing additional advice.

[j_tour]

I do it multiple times every day. 

By that, I mean actively recreating specific parts of a performance, including a kind of mental image of fingerings, and trying to hear all lines at once in a contrapuntal piece, mentally transposing.

It's just a habit -- the actual piece is not that important to me.  Just whatever comes to mind.  The E-minor Sinfonia, the G major prelude of Chopin, or whatever.

My ideal stuff I like to read on the train is just some random sheet music, like a movement of a Bach suite/partita, but it kind of looks weird to be like "oh, mister fancy music man!" so I try to just keep my sunglasses on and do it in my head and look at the advertisements.  Never heard anyone complain about reading music, but occasionally it can attract some comments which are, to my view, always suboptimal when commuting. 

[dontcheeseme]

I am very confused by your posts and your skill level:
- In one post, you state that you are having trouble with a Grade 3 piece:  playing it accurately and hands together.  You state that you are a Grade 3 level.
- In another post, you list the Chopin Etudes you play ( a bunch of them)

Scriabin Op 8 No 12 (polishing up, not finished)
Chopin Etude Op 10 No 12
Chopin Etude Op 10 No 4
Chopin Etude Op 25 No 11
Chopin Etude Op 25 No 12
other pieces, but I think I only have experience with 2-3 polyphonic pieces lol


- In another post, you ask about the possibility of going from Grade 3 to Grade 8 in one year.

Are you Grade 3 or Grade 8 or above Grade 8. What are you really???  

  If you really want advice here, or anywhere,  you need to be honest about what your needs are and the level of play you can do.  I hope that you will reply with honesty--  and I would encourage other forum members to read the discrepancies in your posts as well before providing additional advice.

It's a long complicated story. I'm definitely working on Grade 3 now, if I was put through an exam, I'd probly barely get past Grade 2.

My other posts I was being completely delusional, but those were a few years back when I was into occult stuff, crazy spiritual stuff, etc., I even thought I was the next messiah back then, no kidding, before my stay at the mental ward (they have internet there too). Ignore those posts haha.