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New Article: Understand Music & Memorization

New Article: Understand Music & Memorization

If a musician relies exclusively on muscular or aural memory to memorize his repertory, he'd be relying on 2 definitely essential elements in the Understanding of Music and Memorizing Process but he'd be missing out the larger more important and most reliable elements that ought to be present during the learning of a new piece. Namely Visualization and Score Preparation. : 

-What you see above is what the score of the Chaconne looked like when I was fingering it and taking all the decisions regarding conquering this Monumental work.-
This is especially true if you want to reduce the risk of your mind playing costly tricks on you at such crucial moments as during performance - public performance-. Public performance is the acid test for the musician because all your most unreliable emotions will be excited by the public exposure and, unless you have mastered these fundamental pillars of music understanding and memorization. Unless you start mastering these elements, you will most certainly never feel in control, -because you are not- and you will soon be questioning whether you got what it takes in order to be a world class performer or not. I do not know any professional musician who would venture on stage without having mastered these pillars to some degree. Guitarists, rank among the least prepared musicians in these terrains.  The truth of the matter is that we never learn or even worst, are never thought how to master The Understanding & Memorization of music... I want to teach you how to do it, simply because I had to go through this process myself and my overall musicianship was never up to par until I "really" learned how to learn a piece of music. Below you will see what the score of Bach Chaconne looked like after I decided to remove notes & change both right and left hand fingering. The score was literally filled with pencil markings  to the point that I had to buy a second Segovia Transcription which was the staring point of my own transcription and fingering. Segovia's Work is simply monumental. These are 2 of the most essential elements to build a solid repertoire. Unfortunate;y, they are often neglected. Read the Article following this Link>>