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Play Like an Artist: The Source

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Unfortunately, most piano students begin and end their musical careers being taught how to play notation, not music…

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2012-02-01 Play like an Artist

Piano Technique: Mental Ease

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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?

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2012-01-01 Piano Technique

How to Study-Practice: “Memorization”

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“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…

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2010-04-01 How to Study-Practice

How Your Brain Works: A Memory Challenge

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In order to illustrate the amazing power of patterns, let’s try a fun little memory challenge in four parts…

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2010-03-01 How Your Brain Works

How Your Brain Works: 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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2010-03-01 How Your Brain Works

How Your Brain Works: Recognition & Recall

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Recall is a much tougher memory task than recognition, as illustrated by two everyday examples…

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2010-03-01 How Your Brain Works

How Your Brain Works: Chunking, Automization, & 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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2010-03-01 How Your Brain Works

How Your Brain Works: Why We Forget

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While some memories fade and disappear over time by a process of gradual decay, 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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2010-03-01 How Your Brain Works

How Your Brain Works: “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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2010-03-01 How Your Brain Works

How Your Brain Works: The Power & Challenge of Attention

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Attention is probably the least appreciated aspect of intentional learning…

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2010-03-01 How Your Brain Works

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