[Perform-Talk] Memorizing exercises

[Leslie Hamric]

Hey y'all. I've been counted the exact same thing. I in fact, I'm working on this Bruckner piece for the accompaniment is like this attitude. It's so repetitive and every now and then one or two notes changed here and there. And I have no choice but to go through bar by bar and add Bars on. One thing that I did which I actually found very very helpful is I recorded myself playing it on the cello a measure or two at a time. They were a lot of pauses in between but at least I could hear what the cello parts sounds like by itself. Because with this particular piece you've got the choir, the cello, the brass, and the rest of the orchestra and it even has Oregon. So it's hard to tell  Where that cello part is sometimes. Another thing that helps me is to play it on the piano. I can't read and play at the same time either because I need one hand to finger the cello with the other hand for the bow. It was really weird after I had Covid, I could not sing at all for a while and my sense of pitch went totally off. For example, I was teaching a braille music lesson one day and I thought the student had played a C-sharp minor chord when it was really a C minor chord. That Center pitches almost come back. And my singing voice has completely come back. Good luck with memorizing music and if anybody needs any assistance with braille music,   I'm just a phone call or an email away. I know there's a couple other folks on the list who also do braille music teaching.
Leslie and Omega

Leslie Hamric
Cello and Braille Music Teacher

> On Feb 5, 2024, at 1:42 PM, Ella Yu via Perform-Talk <perform-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi, I've definitely encountered the sort of thing you mention, where it
> seems like a sequence but it's really not because it's like one or two
> notes different each time the pattern seems to repeat. Unfortunately, that
> kind of situation is honestly just kinda a pain, and all you can really do
> is just go bar by bar, then try to group it into two bars at a time, and so
> on. It's the sort of thing that you just have to drill and repeat quite a
> bit I'm afraid. Unlike the previous respondent, I play something other than
> a wind instrument, but it's an issue that applies across the board.
> 
>> On Mon, Feb 5, 2024 at 11:27 AM Chela Robles via Perform-Talk <
>> perform-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>> 
>> I would take it bar by bar and memorize it. That way I’ve done that quite
>> a lot over the years and I’m also a trumpet player. I’ve been playing by
>> ear since I was 10 years old.
>> Sent from my iPhone
>> 
>>> On Feb 5, 2024, at 10:54 AM, Jason Castonguay via Perform-Talk <
>> perform-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi, everyone.
>>> 
>>> Typically, when memorizing exercises either from braille transcription
>> or by ear, I tend to make associations or try to turn the exercise into
>> some melody or I find predictable patterns that make it easier to memorize.
>> Well, that is not the case in this book of etudes for the trumpet. The
>> exercises are easy, but not as predictable in some cases. Furthermore,
>> those I am studying right now sort of blur together in my mind because they
>> are in the same key and do similar things, but with different notes.  Argh!
>> But I can’t read and play at the same time.
>>> 
>>> Has anyone else dealt with this? What have your solutions been? So far,
>> I’m just taking it one step, or measure, at a time. Ha ha.
>>> 
>>> Thanks for any suggestions.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Best regards,
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
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