Today I couldn’t stop laughing as Mckay reached up to turn an invisible page on a newly memorized song. He is a student who would much rather be playing football than coming to a piano lesson but has a positive attitude to please his parents and teacher.
All the students are busy memorizing their songs in preparation for the Christmas recital. When practiced enough, songs seem to automatically memorize with very little effort. The memorizing skill is fun as once a song is memorized it usually becomes a favorite that is played over and over again. I have a returning student that has been in South America for 3 years and still remembers all the songs she memorized before going there.
When music is memorized it can be used to develop technical, musical, listening, and performance abilities.
