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What is the best way to memorize music?

What is a good way to memorize music for piano?

  • i need a way to memorize music for piano because i hav a conrect coming. i must play 3 diffcult pieces so can some one help? please?

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    Don't try playing it up to tempo, with a CD, or in it's entirety, until you have a solid understanding of it. You can understand it best by analyizing its form and the characteristics of its rhythm and chords. Find patterns in repetition of the melody, in contrapuntal interplay (which means more than one melody being played at the same time), rhythmic patterns and form (forms such as ABA, ABAC etc.) Also, one thing that my own piano teacher ground into me before every performance was Starting Spots. Everything I played with an orchestra, I had to be able to start fluidly at a spot about every two measures (if you skip a beat, the orchestra won't compensate for you, so you have to come back in right on your own). My teacher would assess my preparedness by having me play the piece back-to-front in these two-measure segments. This sounds tedious and dull but it helps immensely. Also, when learning the piece, practise with the metrenome until you have it absolutely solid rhythmically. Slow-to-fast work is good for learning hard passages. After learning small sections, such as two-measure segments, start putting those together, and so on, making larger sections gradually. Don't play it all the way through until you know you can go between each measure without stopping One you're sure you have learned the piece well, that you know each chord and rhythmic pattern, THEN you can play it with a recording.

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Here's how I memorized a piece: I used a marker, scissors, and a notebook with plastic sleeves. I ran all the pages through the copy machine. Then on each page, I blacked out one note which I thought I could do without. Then I put each page in a plastic sleeve in the notebook and played reading those pages. Then I did it again, blacking out ANOTHER note on each page. A few more rounds of this, and I dared to black out more than one note at a time. I repeated the pattern until I could cut away entire portions with scissors. I repeated this until I could eliminate all the pages.

suhwahaksaeng

Ahh memorizing has always been so difficult for me! The easiest way for me was to learn only 2-3 measures at a time, then continue to play from the beginning to the point I had memorized to. Listening to the song and playing it over and over and challenging myself to start and certain parts of the song, not just to play it from the beginning.

Jennylynn

I ditto "lil b"'s answer. I might just add to try and break the piece(s) down into segments, sections: slow, fast, long, short, some memorable idiosyncratic aspect of each section: it has a double sharp, or flat, how much if any silence in it as opposed to another section; what kind of an emotion, or feeling it elicits within you, etc., etc.. Hope these help. Good luck, Wotan

Alberich

Play the piece many times. I played my piano exam pieces every day. So, after the exam ( a year or more), I can still remember the piece and manage to play it without any mistakes.Practice makes perfect:)

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