There are literally thousands of ways to memorize. Tactile kinesthetic muscle memory, listening and analyzing the score, study score away from piano. Sing everything, know what the harmony is and where its going. Repete ..repete..repete...slowly and so on. Be aware of what intervals you are playing. Play only the melody and sing along while counting and the bassline as well. Play notes with one finger to check what you heard. Sing lines away from the keyboard. Do silent mental practice and hear the sound internally etc. 🎉❤😂

I LIKE THIS! I just learned "the Logical song" by Roger Hodgson. It's Fun🎉

Cheers Ashlee, Very useful ways to memorise!

Lots of interesting ponders.

Great tips! Thank you for sharing! ❤️

I call it muscle memory... Hearing it while you say it out loud helps your hands with the muscle memory with the feel of it ! I like the number method the " memory starts," I have not really used that method or thought about it.. Excellant info!!! Lee 3-2-24

Ok I am going to do your reading class . I think of performing as using 1 of 3 different methods . Reading , reading to memory /no reading in performance , and playing by ear . Sounds like you like to memorize. Is this logical way to understand the process?

How often should we practice a piece after learning it and already played it to no forget how to do it?

Very cleaver , the memory starts

Man the human brain is amazing

Really like her outro music!

I have been disagreeing with my piano teacher for years about how to memorise pieces. She insists that muscle memory is all-important whereas I maintain that relentless drilling and repetition fails to use the wonder of the human mind and leads to boredom. Watching your video has made me feel vindicated!

I have great difficulties with singing or humming (probably since my voice broke, decades from now, because children song go still well), which is really frustrating because I love melodies. Even when I record it, my singing moves within 3 notes. Is there a way for aural memory in small, very simple steps?

Hey Ashlee! Great video! Curious, what is the black thing above your keys on the birds eye view and what's the purpose?

One editional thing is learn to improvise and play by ear as another skill. Take a phrase from a piece and use it to improvise with using the material that's there as a template. 🎉❤😂

How much do you think memory is influenced by singing? I do not sing. Never have. In fact I have some pretty big emotional baggage due to my (lack of) singing voice. As I'm a real music theory nerd, I know about the Guidonian Hand, which is ancient. For centuries European musicians have used it, and the hand occupies 10% of the brain. The TMJ (vocal chords) occupy 45% of the brain. The auditory system is another large part, so music is a real whole body experience. That is for musicians. Playing the piano with the hands should also have connections with the notes and music. You had an interesting discussion when you played the Eb chord. Maybe there should be some touching patterns in the hand to help memorize music? Just an idea.

Hi Ashley

Going back to the start is DEATH.

thanks dude