This video is about the best way to learn a new piano piece.  When you start a new piece, it's essential to have an organized approach to learning new music. This is in order to avoid spending a lot more time learning the notes of a piano piece than you really need to, so that you can stop feeling like you're practicing and practicing without making much progress on your new piece at the piano.

In this video, I talk about sensory memory, and how to encode new information  into the  short-term and eventually the long-term memory.  I discuss the concept of "chunking" when learning a new piano piece, and why chunking is the most efficient way  to approach a piano piece that's brand new. And I also talk about how what we do at the piano is a physical combination  of motions  that need to be  repeated a sufficient number of times  in order for our  short-term memory  to hang onto them and to eventually encode them into our longer term memory.  

Time Stamps:
0:00 Intro
1:26 How the brain processes new information
3:03 Learning music compared to other types of learning
4:49 Chunking
5:54 Limitations of the short-term memory
6:57 The overlap between playing the piano and sports
7:40 How small should the snippets be?
8:27 Why breaking things down is not as intuitive in music as in other kinds of learning
9:25 Practice in musical gestures
10:33 Summary

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