Hmmm... I've been doing this for quite a while now with one piece: KYOREI...
not so much to learn to play it (my skills are nowhere near that level, I'm
still just playing scales, but in a decade or so I would hope to make my
first efforts towards learning to play it) but just because I like it... the
repeat button on my CD player or MPG3 player on my computer being very
useful for this purpose.... just playing it over and over again in the
background while I work or sleep, with breaks just to listen to it....
For variety I listen to different artists, most often Yoshio Kurahashi, but
also Stan Richardson...
Every time I listen to it, it is a unique experience...
I've noticed that certain birds gather outside my house to listen to it to
when I have my doors open...
Brett "Bud" Breitwieser (bud@rajah.com)
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Zachary Braverman [mailto:zachary@kotodama.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2001 8:59 PM
> To: weber shaq
> Subject: Re: memorization
>
>
>
> > At 5:40 PM -0500 11/7/01, Dan Gutwein wrote:
> >
> >> Does anyone have any tips for memorizing pieces that contain phrases
> >> that are similar enough that you tend to substitute one phrase for
> >> another?
> >
>
> I second Jeremy's suggestion of *listening* to the piece often.
> When I say
> often, I mean like 5-10 times a day. Put it on at night when you go to
> sleep. Drive your wife crazy. Get to the point where the piece
> is in your
> head every day, and it you just naturally find yourself going
> through it in
> your brain even when it's not playing.
>
> That's what I do. This will help with memorizing, but it will also help
> make the piece a part of you, and will make you play it much, much better.
>
> (Then again, you better like the piece...)
>
>
>
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> J-E Translations
> zachary@kotodama.net
> Oita, Japan
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