I love generous people -- generous artists most of all. I hope this project pays huge dividends in your career! I am sure it will, actually.

This is great advice, the interesting thing about doing this on new material in small chunks like 2 to 8 measures (depending on the difficulty of the music), is that it hardly takes any extra time.

This occurred to me the other day. Then I watched your video last night. Used note naming with all my students today and had excellent results. It’s a keeper! 😁

Thanks for the advice, Counting is something I use regularly, though mostly to nail tricky passages, naming notes and fingers sounds like a good thing, but what do you do with chords and when you have multiple voices like in a fugue? I guess for naming notes you could name the chord (it might be awkward though.. try saying "f sharp minor 7, second inversion" in tempo! and where do you put suspensions and passing notes and held notes) but the fingers of the chord? I could probably name them for slow practice, but with any kind of speed, it would do my brain in! or maybe I'm overcomplicating it, what do you suggest?

Very interesting ideas - thank you.

Again voice hand and ear can coincide with rhythmic counting. But when improvising we can use certain ingrained habits and also find alternative fingerings spontaneously.

Great lessons, thank you Ashlee

I've followed your advice for counting out loud so this is not a foreign concept. I have another suggestion. I'm trying to learn Thoroughbass, or Figured Bass, and try to learn the interval. it helped with Prélude in C by Bach, and I was able to transpose it into G easily. I'm trying to learn the ukulele fretboard and learning the intervals helps a lot. I'll apply your method and see how it goes. BTW your videos are never boring, even though your information has quite a bit of overlap. The overlap is all based on good technique, so it makes you a very good teacher.

Hi Ashley thanks. So should i do all three methods for each piece i'm learning or should i pick one of the methods

What's your opinion going a little bit more abstract and not only saying the name of the notes but also the scale degree relative to the key or maybe even relative to the current chord?

Is memorizing a bad practice? It took forever to learn a song if ever but seems whole lot faster if i just memorize the music

Interesting concept in learning music. The problem is to be able to take the slow tedious recitation of finger numbers, notes and counting and play at a faster tempo. Some players sing the pitches without their names as jazz 😊musicians often do. Using scat singing as it's called and solfege also comes to mind as well.

So, how to say out loud note names in a complex Rachmaninov piece with all 10 fingers engaged?

I’m not 100% sure this is a fair comparison but these days, we all get 6 digit codes to confirm our identity when logging on to say, a bank website. I find I instinctively say the numbers out loud because I know I have a greater chance of retaining them by the time I enter them. I don’t think I’m the only one who does that. So most of us count out loud in our daily lives because we know its value. I know it’s daunting applying that to music practice but maybe thinking about 6 digit codes could make us less resistant… or maybe not.

I'm too old to learn this. Just do the best I can sightreading.