When you start out, memorizing the notes at first glance can be quite difficult, so here's a cheat.
There are two things you want to focus on during this practice: 1) memorizing the notes produced by your finger patterns and 2) speed.
When memorizing the chromatic scale (as this is often required for auditions), make sure you're memorizing the notes, not the fingerings.
Random House has signed him to transform the New Yorker piece into a book, also called "Every Good Boy Does Fine" – a phrase that anyone who has taken piano lessons will recognize as a mnemonic children use to memorize the notes on the musical staff when it bears a treble clef.
If you just memorize the notes, you will tend to forget it because of stress and nerves on the day of the test.
Back when assiduous fans were memorizing the liner notes to his 60's albums, searching for the good bits resembled looking for the one genuine straw in a haystack of needles.
As if stalled every night in the waiting room of the world's slowest doctor, these insomniacs had regularly passed their nights memorizing the arrangement of notes on a guitar fretboard, nurturing grudges, hating themselves, thinking about world peace, pretending to be in a submarine, and worrying, Is it Alzheimer's, or worse?
If you start out strong by memorizing all the notes both in the treble clef and bass clef, you will have no trouble in the future.
TUESDAY'S PUZZLE — If you grew up when I did (I'm not going to be specific, but I will say that I am old enough to have been a devoted fan), you weren't a fan of the rock and roll music unless you owned, played, memorized the liner notes of, and basically worshipped the album "Led Zeppelin IV".
Then Elaine and I started to give her even more of a challenge, and that provoked Isabella to put her attention on listening to and memorizing the first few instrumental notes of songs, instead of waiting for the lyrics to kick in.
We'd been in the new place for about six months, and in that time I had become the consummate curtain-twitcher, keeping a constant watchful eye on my new neighborhood, taking mental notes and memorizing the number for the nearest cop shop just in case.
