I've been sick for the last couple of weeks and it has been rather unpleasant. Among other things, I have been low on energy.
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Before you start panicking, I have kept my instrument practice up and, at the time of writing, I am sitting on 186 1/2 hours for the year so far.
However, the 'low on energy' thing does mean that I have spent quite a bit of time laying on the couch and looking at my phone.* I always seem to finish up scrolling through Facebook. Facebook is full of SO MUCH SHIT! I have only got myself to blame, I know. However, one thing that caught my attention was people writing about how to memorise music for performance. There have been quite a lot of people who have written on this topic. They go on for quite a while and, when it's time for some helpful answers, they tell you that they want money before they will tell you anything more. This pisses me off. If I had the answers to this 'problem', I'd just tell everyone. Why do so many things always have to be about making money?
I have been thinking about memorisation quite a bit lately. Evidently there are three steps involved in the memory process: Encoding (short term memory), Consolidation (long term memory) and Retrieval (recalling).
As you know, I have 30 pieces in my solo violin repertoire and they are all memorised to a degree. I can play all the pieces in this repertoire by memory, but some could use a bit more work to really lock them into my memory. Hence I think quite a bit about memorisation. I also continue to work on these particular pieces.
I had a thought the other day. Don't get me wrong, I'm not as old as Peter, but I have noticed that I have a tendency to forget names of people who I haven't seen for a while or I don't know well. I have little tricks that I use to recall these names or to not forget them. One thing I do is make up an association. I know a guy called Cory, so when I think of him I think of an apple core.
I needed to remember the name of a lady named Denise at work. I think of Dennis the Menace.
When my first grandson was born I found his name hard to remember. The name Harrison was not a name that I had much experience with. Then I put his father's name in front of it. George Harrison. We all know who George Harrison was!
There are some names I just never forget and they don't need prompting - parents, brothers, children, very old friends, the list goes on. I mean, I don't have to say, "Peter McDonald Trump." to remember Peter's name. I just use that one because it is fun!
I'm going to leave you there for today, but this topic is not finished.
To be continued.
* That thing that Peter keeps dropping into his bath.
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I hate to think what you think of when trying to remember names like Fanny, Dick, Titiana and Willy.
Well, they do sort of speak for themselves!
Nicola is another one that doesn't need explanation.
No, explain.
Knickers.
That figures given your predilection for sneaking looks at them when you were a schoolboy.
Dang! Caught out! Yes, I was 5 at the time. Should have known better.
Was Betta the girl wearing the knickers?
TC
Actually the girls in those days wore bloomers (sort of like PE shorts) under their skirts. There was nothing to see, but the 'big girl' did tell me off quite severly, as I remember. She'd be about 78 now. Maybe even older.
I'm sure that she still mentions you to her friends.
Its called a mnemonic. I have to use them all the time too. For instance "old Nick" for Nicholas who is young and very pleasant. I think they work best when the association is ridiculous, as you say in the post.
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