FAB FAB FAB book!
It's the best thing on memory
I have read. Easy to read and easy to understand. I wish that I
had had something like this when I was a student and this is a
book that all students should read. As someone who isn't keen on
performing by memory and finds it difficult to memorise - this
book is a very helpful aid with lots of interesting facts and hints
for helping to develop memory skills. The facts and different memorising
methods and all the handy hints are listed and written in a way
that are very easy to understand and try out and I am going to
go away and try many of them out...It's a great book and my mind
is exploding at the mo thinking about stuff in it!
(Sarah Watts, International Bass Clarinet Soloist)
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This is fascinating stuff! Thank you.
I've just finished an orchestral piece and really appreciate what you have
to say about sleep as an aid to solving problems. I find that if I finish a
day by looking at a musical problem I will have solved it in the morning.
Aren't we lucky to be in music!
(Errollyn Wallen, Composer Pianist and Singer)
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"David brings together in a lively way a number of very interesting approaches to memorizing music"
(Christopher Dicken, Principal Trumpet, The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen)
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"This book should become a textbook at all music institutions. In this book, David teaches you how to remove stress through discussing the history of memorising and specific techniques for memory. This is the technique-galore book. No fluff. No wasted pages. Just pure and great techniques including the Alexander technique, Suzuki technique, Reminiscence effect and accelerated learning techniques. As a special, David also teaches you twenty fun ways to make memorising music fun! I recommend this book if you want to skyrocket and accelerate your music memory skills."
(Kavit Haria, UK's #1 Music Success Coach)
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Sample from the book:
David's Musical Memory exercise
Think of the last time you played, maybe with friends, in a concert situation or in your bedroom or a practice room; choose a pleasant memory. Were you sitting or standing? Were there other people with you, other musicians and/or an audience? What clothes were you wearing? See the colours of the cloth, textures and feel of the material on your skin. What was the air like? Were you outside or in? Was it light or dimmer? Is the picture still or moving? Become more aware of movement. Feel the instrument in your hand, the pressure keys under your fingers, how were you breathing as you played or sang. Were you hot, warm
or comfortable at room temperature? What did you play and for how long? Were you playing fast or slow, loud or soft? How many sounds were there? What was your tone like? As your memory becomes richer in detail, in your inner ear what direction does the sound come from? Feel your connection with the instrument grow. Feel the music you played in your body, it's rhythm, harmonies and melodies… and make them louder in your mind's ear. Enjoy the weight of your feet on the ground. Where in your body did you feel the music, allow this feeling to grow? Become aware of the notes as you played, the higher ones and lower ones. As this memory becomes clearer and more detailed,
are you in the mental picture (associated)? Or are you looking at yourself in the picture (disassociated)? Is your picture focused or unfocused? Find the zoom lens of your camera and zoom in. Then step into the picture, make it brighter and panoramic (see all around you)…Now double the feeling and the passion… and then again. Do this as often as you like until you are totally there and more…
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