Listen to it over and over. And over. And don't worry about
memorizing it, just enjoy playing it. I used to love reading Lewis
Carroll's _The Hunting of The Snark_ so much as a child, but I was
still surprised one day when I found myself able to recite almost the
entire poem from memory.
-j
On Wed, Nov 07, 2001 at 05:40:12PM -0500, Dan Gutwein wrote:
> I'm new to learning Japanese music in general - specifically the literature
> of the shakuhachi. I'm in my 7th month of studying shakuhachi and I've
> been trying to memorize Kurokami - have been playing it (repeating sections
> and playing it straight through) at least twice each morning and evening
> for about a month. Sometimes I get about a third of the way into the piece
> and suddenly come to the realization that I'm playing a phrase from another
> section later on in the piece. I find myself repeatedly glancing at the
> music primarily to get a quick visual orientation so that I don't get lost
> and I'm wondering if I'll ever be able to play it all the way through
> without this confusion. Does anyone have any tips for memorizing pieces
> that contain phrases that are similar enough that you tend to substitute
> one phrase for another?
>
> Dan Gutwein
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