NormanKliman -> RE: the art of memorizing (Apr. 4 2009 0:35:54)
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Hi minordjango, I don't understand a thing about the science of it, but I can offer a few observations. If you're trying to memorize an entire piece, it might be useful to assign names to falsetas or passages, sort of like the titles of the chapters of a book. Although it adds another piece of information, it makes for fewer puzzle pieces, if you know what I mean. Memorizing a single falseta seems to involve different stages. Initially, the idea is "linear," because you remember the falseta one note after another, and if you lose your place you have to go back to the beginning in order to reproduce it. At a later stage, it seems to be a different story. I notice that when I practice with a metronome and I lose my place on the guitar, the falseta goes on in my head, and I can pick it up again a few beats later (even returning in the middle of a fast run or something). Obviously, the key word here is overview, and the only way to get there is going to involve paying less attention to the tiny details that formed the basis of your initial understanding. People often use driving a car as a metaphor in this sense: When you first learn to drive, you concentrate on every detail of gas, brakes and clutch. After you've got some experience, you might drive home from work, lost in thought, before realizing that you're back in your neighborhood. So maybe a big part of remembering involves forgetting! [:D]
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