Unfortunately, most piano students begin and end their musical careers being taught how to play notation, not music…
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memorization
Did you know… that talented musicians do not have some kind of rare and special superhuman capability to think about enormous strings and sequences of random unrelated isolated notes?
“Memorization” is in quotes because the goal of studying is not to memorize a piece of music like you memorize a sequence of random numbers…
In order to illustrate the amazing power of patterns, let’s try a fun little memory challenge in four parts…
Your brain is a natural seeker, recognizer, discriminator, assimilator, interpreter, relater, combiner, connector, and creator of PATTERNS…
Recall is a much tougher memory task than recognition, as illustrated by two everyday examples…
A major goal of studying music is to turn disconnected pieces of information or behaviors into a single, unified, meaningful idea or behavior…
“Memorization” is in quotes because the goal of studying is not to memorize something like you memorize a sequence of random numbers…
What attitudes and behaviors distinguish an EXPERT from a NOVICE?
Isn’t it curious (and so very unfortunate) that we all go to school for years and years without ever learning how our brain, the very organ that we are trying to change in the process, works?