How Long Does It Take To Learn Rach 3

This piece is republished from Margulis' "Pianist to Pianist" web log.

Scientific research past Charles Brenner and Jeffrey Zacks has observed that walking through doorways interferes with memory and facilitates forgetting.

More specifically, their "doorway effect" is a theory based on the fact that retaining a memory is more than difficult after literally walking through an bodily doorway (to another room, the exterior, the other lecture hall, in or out the church, a stage door etc). It appears that memory works better when remaining in the room in which it originally captured the information -- in real locations (like a piano do room, the university, a museum, a shopping center, the dark-green room etc.), likewise as in virtual reality simulations (like an Avatar program at DARPA; or Skyrim, the Sims or Destiny on PSX) -- and that i loses some of the data when walking out of the room. It's chosen the "encoding specificity" principle and suggests that retentiveness organizes information in a "location based" fashion.

Research suggests that "some forms of memory seem to be optimized to keep information fix-to-manus until its shelf life expires." This thought has been called an "effect model" by G.A. Radvansky.

"Concert pianists tin can perform a 45 infinitesimal slice with 30,000 individual notes that accept to be performed in an absolutely particular order."

In these cases, the brain doesn't store information in an organized retrieval structure (as that takes more calories). Imagine being in a subway station memorizing the number (and possibly names) of stops to your destination -- an opera firm let's say. After you lot passed through the sliding train doors and entered the portal of the opera house (a couple of doors really), well-nigh probable the brain estimated each time that the usefulness, shelf life, of the information has expired, been proven correct each time and slowly diminished its remember power. Information technology is apparent that a narrative is easier to call back than a shopping list for the untrained retention.

Chief retentiveness is cultivated by mnemonic preparation -- the cultivation of a multi-layered and oft emotionally connected retrieval structure. Soloists are capable of remembering a tremendous corporeality of information based on several, by and large inexplicable and un-researched, mnemonic applications. Concert pianists, for example, can perform a 45 minute piece with 30,000 individual notes, that have to be performed in an absolutely particular order, with rhythmical and dynamic variability, passionately creating an emotional and formal narrative, from retentiveness, live on stage.

"As with all things of value, cultivation and abiding practise is cardinal."

And in a slice such every bit "Rach 3," they also accept to coordinate with a large trunk of musicians, as well from retentivity. The enquiry on the doorway effect is quite insightful and relevant for the career musician (concert pianists, for example) and the methodical pedagogue, and can exist epitomized as such: The stage and the practise room must become the aforementioned room.

As with all things of value, tillage and constant practice is key. In order to continue all that has been achieved backside the exercise room door, one should attempt to create a comfortable and familiar surround in the do room, gain dominance and mastery of the music and the instrument and return to the same enjoyable and intimate surroundings on the stage. Imagine the door out of the practice room is the door onto the stage Matrix style. The concert performance is the tip of an iceberg -- always go on that in listen and in sight.