Yes! Please try it, this should intensify your actual work on the piece, since you'll be encouraged to analize it in much greater detail and do it very consiously. Then polishing the piece will be very fun too, because you will focus more on the music itself, the sound, phrasing etc!

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Thank you so much for your comment ! Here are my thoughts. 1. The more complex the music is the harder it is to memorize. 2. It will much easier for us to memorize tonal music vs. a-tonal simply because we rely on hearing familiar harmonies. 3. If the piece is clearly challenging for you to simply play , you need to allow yourself much longer time before you start memorizing it. Pre memorization stage could be up to a month or more if needed. You should be able to play it more or less comfortably with the score before you attempt to memorize it. 4. If you are determined to memorize the piece, create a good plan and memorize one or two phases a day. The music could be a-tonal or somewhat so, but there should be some structure (phases, sentences, sections ) that you can identify . 5. Remember you will memorize if you analyze. If besides basic harmonies that may not exist , what else is there ? Look at the intervals, base line, Melodic contoure. Are there any patterns or repetition of the material ? In general give yourself more time , create a good plan and approach memorization step by step. And if you are able , try to do your memorization work in the morning hours. Good luck and enjoy the great repertoire!

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Yes, great idea! Using it with student and my own practice a lot :)

Exactly what I do. Also do both increase the tempo but also jump up the tempo rapidly and go back. Listening to the line you play is also helpful

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Wow- quite phenomenal! As the Man himself! Thank you for the comment!

oh i saw a comment from you the other day on a feux-follets video. interestingly enough about how you said to work it fast, rachmaninoff himself apparently did intensely slow practice for pieces like chopin 25/6 (at least as the story about him goes)

@@anotherdepressedmusician Haha, a follower ! There was a journalist who spied on Rachmaninoff once and heard him play very slowly; then the word about it spread. But the things is 1) nobody describes what is the work that they do (in their mind), fast or slow, which is not fully described in what we hear 2) practicing slowly is not exclusive with practicing fast and Rachmaninoff very likely also practiced fast (he plays also unusually fast, and spends every day an insane amount of time on technique, maybe like Liszt), and I practice also slowly, but the work (the object of attention and the consequences) is very different in both cases (slow and fast). So, in the end, practice is one thing and work is another; one can practice slowly and do no work, and practice fast and do a lot of efficient work (and the inverse too). There are a few known teachers who claim the same thing as I do, in particular with the image of the horse: practicing the walk a lot will never help with the gallop since the movements are different.

Well said. Slow on the outside, fast on the inside. Lol. If only outsiders knew.

What about Rach 3? It’s unthinkable to think he plays it in all keys.

Thank you for emphasizing this aspect, and spasibo to you as well for sharing your insights!

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Wonderful vid. I’m going to implement this today!

@@globalc3849 great, good luck and happy practice!

Thanks for the feedback! Next video is recorded with a mic!

@@alexandra.tsirkel u can improve mastering of the audio with some compression and mastering plug-ins in the video making tools. Keep the audio your priority

If it's a Schoenberg piece transposition would be superfluous. Transposition is good and would transpose an Etude of Chopin to make sure you know it like Opus 25 # 11 ? The real problem is the ear and one has to hear what one plays and have a theoretical understanding of what is there. I heard Rachmaninoff parsed every bar of a piece and spent an inordinate time on each bar before moving on. All of this is time consuming.

Score- an actual music ( the text) you are working on!

Wow your repertoire is so impressive!! Good for you! Very interesting analogy with bridges- I've never heard that before! But I agree that there will be not necessarily a need for every single element to be discussed. It's just an example of how to proceed in general as we memorize- again, it's all individual- I find it very helpful though, it helps to bring consciousness into the process! Thank you for commenting, and again, wow Gargoyles N 4!!! Bravo!

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