thepianoplayer416 The person who uploaded the video suggested spending more time listening to music actually save time practicing. If you want to "memorize" a piece, you'd listen to it over and over. When you sit down to play the notes, it's already in your head so remembering what to play would take less effort.
Ok, first full disclosure that I havenāt watched the video yet (Iām the only one in my house awake right now, my mother is here visiting us and I donāt want to wake anybody up) so maybe Iāll comment again after watchingā¦but hereās my comment with that as a caveatā¦.
This part: āIf you want to "memorize" a piece, you'd listen to it over and over. When you sit down to play the notes, it's already in your head so remembering what to play would take less effort.ā doesnāt ring true to me.
Because I do listen to my pieces over and over.
I choose my repertoire pieces based on music I listen to, fall in love with and decide I want to play it. Often, by the time I start working on a piece, Iāve listened to it countless times and itās been on my āplay nextā list for months (or years). And during that time, while the piece is on my list but I havenāt played it yet, I am continually listening to it. It was always like this even back when I used to buy CDs, but now that a lot of my listening happens through online radio like Pandora and Spotify, I hear these pieces over and over (because of the stupid algorithms). And with a lot of my most favorite composers, I also buy their albums and then listen offline when I get tired of the algorithms. And not only am I listening to the pieces over and over, some people might remember that I play contemporary music (think Einaudi, Winston, Ffrench), so Iām listening to only one version over and over (the composer playing the original recording).
So with almost all of the pieces I play, in terms of the āmusicā of it, Iāve already āmemorizedā it. Not the playing of it, but the listening of.
Iām not saying that some kind of active listening (like active memorization I mentioned in an earlier post) wouldnāt be beneficial, Iām sure it would. IOW, listening with the score outā¦
I guess all Iām saying is, I already listen over and over. Thatās not going to tips the scales and suddenly make memorization easier for me.
Maybe this is just an extension of the difference between people who are better at playing by ear and/or memorizing vs. people who are better at reading and/or playing from the score.