At what point in learning a piece should memorizing begin?
Some teachers advocate beginning to memorize a piece when you begin to study it. I tend to think this works best under the guidance of a teacher. On your own you may face too complex a task. And you may end up memorizing such things as mistakes or sub-optimum fingering.Not only will it be simpler to memorize a piece which you have already learned using the score, but also by the time you have learned to play the piece fairly well this way, you have already come much of the way toward memorizing it. You now can play without focusing on as many of the details in the score as you did when you began learning the notes, and you have formed some sense of the piece’s structure. And if you began to study the piece without listening to it, you now have a memory of what the piece sounds like.3.4)Identifying memorizable unitsAs with all skills, repetition is required to establish long-term memory of a piece. For some people, just playing a piece over and over again is sufficient for memorizing it
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