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Old 02-25-2020, 08:32 AM
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- When I work on a new piece, I memorize it backwards, i.e. start at the last measure and finish at the first. (A trick that I learned from a David Russell interview. He uses that. It made a lot of sense to me when he explained it.)
What was his reasoning behind this? I'm going to try this on my next one. I think I understand why he would suggest this but am curious to know. But now that you mention it, it seems to me like a good idea. I get so good at starting a piece that the end of it kind of gets tiresome so working in the opposite direction will polish up the important ending and just naturally you want the beginning to be perfect and that ties together the middle? Hmmm brilliant!
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Old 02-25-2020, 08:51 AM
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That's exactly what Bradford Werner on This is Classical guitar mentions when he recommended learning backwards in his video as part of memorizing songs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYpaMmuWI9I



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What was his reasoning behind this? I'm going to try this on my next one. I think I understand why he would suggest this but am curious to know. But now that you mention it, it seems to me like a good idea. I get so good at starting a piece that the end of it kind of gets tiresome so working in the opposite direction will polish up the important ending and just naturally you want the beginning to be perfect and that ties together the middle? Hmmm brilliant!
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Old 02-25-2020, 09:53 AM
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That's exactly what Bradford Werner on This is Classical guitar mentions when he recommended learning backwards in his video as part of memorizing songs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYpaMmuWI9I
Great! Yes makes perfect sense. I like Werner too he's got a good teaching style.
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Old 02-25-2020, 11:53 AM
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What was his reasoning behind this? I'm going to try this on my next one. I think I understand why he would suggest this but am curious to know. But now that you mention it, it seems to me like a good idea. I get so good at starting a piece that the end of it kind of gets tiresome so working in the opposite direction will polish up the important ending and just naturally you want the beginning to be perfect and that ties together the middle? Hmmm brilliant!
Yes, that's the idea.
This "back to front" method is ideally used for memorizing a piece, as opposed to "learning" it, which aren't really the same. The idea being that using the traditional method to memorize, i.e. front to back, will too heavily "front load" the memorization process and the ending won't be as thoroughly worked on as the beginning. Memorizing from the back tends to equal things out and less likely to cause memory lapse issues as you progress to the latter part of the piece when playing it.
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Old 02-25-2020, 12:19 PM
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This makes so much sense, glad I learned this after all these years. I'm definitely going to give it a go on the next one.
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