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Thanks! That's a very interesting topic, I'll look into that

Please look into photographic memory too, my friend has it, he used to tell me where the original location of snooker balls were before the TV playback while the ref was trying to put them back during a missed ball foul. He also reads the negative space between text on a book instead of just reading the text like the rest of us. I asked how he did that and his response was: "Take your phone out, try to take a picture, now while looking at the object, please tell me that you can also see your hand holding the phone, and that's the negative space for me." and that was the moment I questioned the meaningfulness of my existence.

Thanks for the comment, totally agree with you. Musicians don't memorize purely notes, but the context that it resides in the composition, or as a meaningful whole rather than a mathematical note-per-note basis per se. Here I think the method of loci could be useful as well, as you could for example attach mental images to different sections and rope them all together into a story in which each mental image interacts with each other. In fact, this is how Akira Haraguchi actually memorized over 100,000 digits of pi, so it could work!

I’d say, the story method, extensively used by my piano prof wife, is a Loci method, simply made better for music purposes. I do know a Chinese PhD who still remembers 60 digits of pi, using Loci method, but even he admits that it’s useless waste of mental energy. What the story method offers are immediate emotional rewards: first, the joy of discovery of the story within a (pleasant) music, and then the joy of coloring/amending the story every time you play that music. Judging by the experience of my wife’s students (not to mention her own), the outcome is always greater than memorizing the notes mechanically or “scientifically”. The joy of learning a piece becomes the joy both you and the audience get during concerts.

​@@anvarts That's interesting. Having read various research papers it can be easy to fall into that "scientific mindset" when it comes to music. Of course using the method that you get enjoyment out of the most is the most effective in the long run. Music is partly an emotional artform afterall.

True, however there is some depth to how you play a section over and over. You can use different techniques to speed up the process, and choosing how to split the music into different sections to memorize as efficiently as possible is also something that requires an analytical skill. However, really, like you said, it all comes down to repetition.

It can take a while! Some say the most skilled pianists practice upwards of 25 hours a day...

Thanks for the comment. In my video I did not say that musical memory is purely muscle memory but rather one form of multiple types of memory that musicians use, although you're right that musicians do memorize music remembering a sequence of sounds, something called auditory memory. Although I would say that musical memory isn't just auditory memory, but also many other forms of memory, like visual-, muscle- and even semantic memory. For example, while a musician may be able to remember a piece using purely auditory memory, without visual memory to remember fingerings and cues in different passages, and muscle memory to be able to those play sections without concious thought, the musician wouldn't be able to play. Auditory memory allows the performer to put those notes played by other forms of memory into musical context.

Thank you fellow Rachmaninoff enjoyer!

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At 120 bpm (a not very fast musical tempo), a quarter note is 0.5 seconds long. Eighth or sixteenth notes are the most common note value in faster pieces, so with a steady stream of those that's already 4 or 8 notes per second, even for just a single monophonic part. Combine that with faster tempos, occasional 16th triplets or 32th notes and harmony, i.e. several notes at once, which is the norm rather the exception on piano, 10 notes per second are totally possible. Whether it makes for a pleasant listening experience is another question...

Why do you call this piece/composition a song?