keystring IF for some reason you suddenly wanted to get good at memorizing everything and playing from memory, then you might want to get some new approaches, add to what you're doing and also what you know.
Oh absolutely! If I truly wanted to get better at memorizing (as part of my total pianistic abilities) I would definitely need to change my approach in several ways.
I'm glad you tried Hana Bi! What did you think of the music? That's the fun section, I love pounding out that LH part on my C2 with it's yummy bass!
But back to your point.... I am not "aiming to memorize Hana Bi" but rather I'm trying to add some memorization-like tools to my approach to help me get this piece into my fingers more quickly/efficiently, and also more accurately. That's a subtle distinction but one that I find helpful to articulate for myself.
keystring you can't memorize a gazillion details over 6 pages, or rely on muscle memory via umpteen repetitions.
Indeed! And that's why if I am going to eat a "whole vegetable" it's going to be something short and sweet, like Wishing... Actually, Hana Bi probably wouldn't be "that" hard to memorize, it's only four pages and has very distinct sections. But I'll stick to the score for the most part.
But the first question should be whether we actually want to memorize music - esp. longer, more complex pieces.
Right, and this is where maybe we can get back to the main point of this thread (sorry for all the thread drift, @twocats !!)
I think @twocats does intend to memorize more complex pieces, as a way to approach her craft in a different way. And that makes a lot of sense to me..... Just since this thread started, I've been looking at my scores a little differently, articulating note-names differently than I normally would, and just kind of switching things up a bit. That has been quite helpful!
