Devising Mental Games to Memorize Musical Material

Steve Raybine:
 

Blog #110:


Devising Mental Games to Memorize Musical Material



A teacher that challenges students with intellectually-stimulating games helps them to better retain and memorize important musical facts and concepts. In order for this to be effective and interesting, one must be clever and creative when devising games of mental acuity. Suggestions for your mental gymnastics might include the following:


1.) Reciting scale/mode-connecting exercises (verbally articulating the immediate and intermittent shifts in ascending and descending order between various scales or modes).


2.) Listing all the available chord extensions in altered and unaltered forms and other color tones with a specific root from the primary chord categories (major; minor; dominant; augmented; diminished and half-diminished) within a certain time allotment.


3.) Reciting the note names and rhythms at any place within a specific composition the student is currently studying.



Games the require mental agility are not only entertaining and refreshing, but they also stimulate the student's desire for knowledge and for retaining that information.





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