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How to Study-Practice: The Power of Patterns

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Your brain is a natural seeker, recognizer, discriminator, assimilator, interpreter, relater, combiner, connector, and creator of PATTERNS…

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2010-04-24 How to Study-Practice

How to Study-Practice: Consolidation

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Consolidation is the process by which short-term memories are transformed into long-term memories…

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2010-04-22 How to Study-Practice

How to Study-Practice: Chunking, Automatization, & Practice

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A major goal of studying music is to turn disconnected pieces of information or behaviors into a single, unified, meaningful idea or behavior…

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2010-04-20 How to Study-Practice

How to Study-Practice: Knowing a Piece of Music

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Preparation for performance is not about brute force “memorization” of unrelated dots on a page…

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2010-04-20 How to Study-Practice

How to Study-Practice: Theory & Practice

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Some insightful commentary regarding both the utility and limitations of Music Theory…

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2010-04-18 How to Study-Practice

How to Study-Practice: Association & Elaboration

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The best way to remember something is to make it memorable!

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2010-04-15 How to Study-Practice

How to Study-Practice: Interference

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One reason we “forget” is that we try to do too much of something in a single study session.

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2010-04-11 How to Study-Practice

How to Study-Practice: “Memorization”

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The primary reason that most of us “forget” something is that we never really learned that something in the first place…

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2010-04-11 How to Study-Practice

How to Study-Practice: “Memorization”

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“Memorization” is in quotes because the goal of studying is not to memorize something like you memorize a sequence of random numbers…

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2010-04-10 How to Study-Practice

How to Study-Practice: Soak Time

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Your brain is like a sponge in three ways…

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2010-04-09 How to Study-Practice

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