memory

I think sometimes students do mindless repetition for practice without breaking it down in such a way that the brain retains the piece. I had a student today who struggles with remembering her pieces so we just slowly went through a series of questions and…

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I have an older middle-aged student who is having memory trouble with the variations. He keeps trying to write clues for himself and I’ve stopped him multiple times and told him to trust the method, and that it’s a memory builder. I’m good at seeing…

• Last updated 7 years ago
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Any tips for teaching someone who has memory problems? She is otherwise a “normal” middle-aged adult, very intelligent, but she can never remember any artistic things (i.e. dance moves) that others teach her, so she thinks she will forget whatever she learns in the workshop…

• Last updated 8 years ago
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Any advice on working with senior students who are concerned with forgetting things, arrangements in particular, and want to write extra notes in the diagrams? I feel like I’ve been hearing that a lot lately, that because they’re older they need to write extra notes…

• Last updated 8 years ago
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Knowing that variations and arrangements are primarily memory exercises and secondarily exposure to different performance techniques and only after these things pieces for the repertoire, and if students forget them, it’s on some level “okay” in a way that is not true of Foundation pieces,…

• Last updated 10 years ago
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