Weeks 11-12: repertoire and performance · practice

Memorization landmarks

Remember pieces by form, harmony, and hand shape instead of muscle memory alone.

Why this matters

Muscle memory alone fails under pressure. Memorizing pieces by structure (form, harmony, hand shape) lets you recover when fingers slip.

What you should be able to do

Start from 6 internal landmarks across repertoire without replaying from the beginning.

Estimated focus time: 1.5h

How to practice this on your piano today

1. Pick a piece you've been learning. Identify 4-6 'landmarks' — points you can re-start from (each phrase beginning, each chord change).
2. Play just the first landmark from memory. Pause. Then the second. Etc.
3. Try playing FROM landmark 3 to the end. Then FROM landmark 1 to landmark 2.
4. Practice random-access: roll a die, start from that landmark.
5. Aim for being able to start from 6 internal landmarks across the piece without replaying from the beginning.

Interactive coming soon

Tracking which sections you can play from cold is a logging UI we'll build later.