Music Teaching Tips

Practice till you get it correct. Then play it two more times.

THIS ADVICE MAY SOUND TRITE. Or, it may appear to be a superstitious ancedote for the belief that the student played correctly by having had good luck. "Au contraire," the piano teacher knows what she is talking about, after all!

According to studies on automaticity by SDSU EdTec students Johnnie Perry and Julie Collett, overlearning leads to automaticity. In a different study, another SDSU EdTec grad student's work lends supporting evidence that overlearning and the activities associated with it can deepen the memory trace and aid in transforming data into memory. Jose Arbona-Soto shared this concept in a presentation on the dynamics of the memory cycle . . .