Wouldn't it be awesome if you could look at a piece of music once, instantly memorize the notes and then immediately start drilling it into muscle memory? The time you'd save using music mnemonics would be immense, and you'd experience much more pleasure learning music as a result.
Here's the thing:
You Can Memorize Music!
But there's a catch.
What I'm about to share is largely untested. I've completed some promising experiments, but haven't completed the full Memory Palace for any single instrument. That means I haven't used the approach I'll describe for you to its fullest potential.
UPDATE: Since originally writing this post, I have made great strides. Here's a run down of where things currently stand with how to memorize notes on a guitar:
Bottom line:
I will keep exploring every nook and cranny of using mnemonics to remember music.
And when I'm satisfied, I'll make a course about how you can use the method too.
In the meantime, the concepts are far too exciting not to share. They're also so logical, coherent and mnemonically beautiful. It will be impossible for you not to grow in memory and mind if you choose to tinker with them.
And who knows? You might come up with a cool variation that winds up in the forthcoming book and video course!
Music Mnemonics: The Ground Rules
First off, we need to establish some ground rules and guiding principles for music mnemonics. When talking about memorizing music, we need to be specific about what kind of music and for what instrument.
Or, we need to focus on particular parts of music theory. To just throw around the term "music mnemonics" risks confusing everyone.
If we're talking about musical terminology, that's easy. Just treat the terms like you would any professional material, like you would using the second edition of How to Learn and Memorize Legal Terminology. Since numbers might be involved, go in prepared with the Major Method.
If you want to memorize notes on the staff, there are already well-established mnemonics for that. I don't have much to add when it comes to Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge for the treble stave and FACE for the notes between the lines. You can find lots more mnemonics for music like these all over the net, but in truth …
You're Always Better Coming Up With Your Own Music Mnemonics
Why does this matter?
Because you're on the Magnetic Memory Method website to master music mnemonics and other memory techniques. Not goof around with yet another crutch of limited, short-term value. You're here to learn skills that will serve you for life and that means learning to make music mnemonics of your own.
Here's how a thorough reading and re-reading of this material will help:
What I'm going to cover in this post is the memorization of the notes on the fretboard of stringed instruments like the guitar and the keys of a piano. This material is a demonstration of what is possible if you combine a number of Magnetic Memory Method elements and see your instrument as its own kind of Memory Palace.
To accomplish this, we need to know how to use instruments like guitars and pianos in terms of what note falls on which spatial position. I'll make a few suggestions about chords, but beyond that, I cannot currently say much. There are a lot of aspects to music and what I've got for you is just a piece of the puzzle.
But Oh What A Piece!
Let's look at guitar first. For some much earlier writing I put out on the topic, you might want to start with Published on 9 years, 4 months ago
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