Your brain is a natural seeker, recognizer, discriminator, assimilator, interpreter, relater, combiner, connector, and creator of PATTERNS…
Consolidation is the process by which short-term memories are transformed into long-term memories…
A major goal of studying music is to turn disconnected pieces of information or behaviors into a single, unified, meaningful idea or behavior…
Preparation for performance is not about brute force “memorization” of unrelated dots on a page…
Some insightful commentary regarding both the utility and limitations of Music Theory…
The best way to remember something is to make it memorable!
One reason we “forget” is that we try to do too much of something in a single study session.
The primary reason that most of us “forget” something is that we never really learned that something in the first place…
“Memorization” is in quotes because the goal of studying is not to memorize something like you memorize a sequence of random numbers…
Your brain is like a sponge in three ways…