The course I signed up for is useful for a number of reasons.
Yesterday I wrote that the issues in memorizing is cognitive, but the course pointed out that there are two elements along with the cognitive: auditory and motor - remembering what you hear (or are supposed to hear) and remembering what it feels like to play what you're memorizing.
The main key to memorizing is playing with full awareness, or as close to full awareness as possible. Music offers so many features to notice, that perhaps only a musical genius can notice them all, and that might be the key to musical genius. Who knows? I find it uncanny that a mere child (prodigy) can play better than someone who has been studying for more years than the child has lived.
Practicing with an ear to memorizing what I'm playing has helped me, so far, after only two days, to practice better. Like most people, I imagine, I tend to gloss over difficulties and moving on to easy stuff instead of focusing on problems and solving them. If you intend to memorize what you're playing, you have to notice what's challenging and master the challenges.
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