Learning Tip #2: Engrave the song on your brain

Hi there, Hope you found our Learning Tip #1 useful. Here is Tip #2: Spend 15 minutes a day engraving the song you learn on your brain. What's the best way to begin to learn a new song? Is it by memorizing the tab? Watching an instructional video on YouTube? Just leaping in and trying to play? Fast learners use an approach called engraving method. They listen to the song, closely and with great intensity, over and over, until they build a high-definition mental blueprint. This approach is at the core of the famous Suzuki music learning method. Another example is tennis teacher and author Timothy Gallwey. A few years back, for the TV show 60 minutes, he demoed the power of engraving by teaching shockingly decent forehand in less than 20 minutes. The key to effective engraving is to create an intense connection: to watch and listen so closely that you can imagine the feeling of playing the song. Try to project yourself inside original player's body. Become aware of the movement of his fingers and the rhythm. Here are three simple steps to use this method with Songsterr: - Use Songsterr's tab player to play a few measures of tab over and over again until it is engraved on your brain. - Find the song on YouTube and watch this very same fragment performed by original artist at least 10–20 times. - Try to play this fragment yourself measuring successes and failures or your attempts against engraved blueprint. [Try this method now!] And let us know if you have any feedback or questions. Thanks, Denis [Unsubscribe from these emails]