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I find that sightreading music actually works well. If I’m wide awake/alert, I can sightread bach fugues with 4 voices, and I can mentally actively keep track of them simultaneously. On the low end of the scale, I find that I can only concentrate on one voice at a time and my sightreading performance drops significantly. I also play blitz go, but the problem is that you don’t realize then your moves are bad, and it’s only when you review your games the next day it’s obvious that you’ve played bad moves.
Another trick I use is to remember as many tunes, and their names, as possible. (This works better if you’ve listened to and memorized a /lot/ of different songs and are theoretically capable of recalling over a thousand songs). If I’m tired, I usually run into mental blocks when trying to remember how a specific song started.
Re: several people above who said they could monitor their own cognitive state with practice; I’m definitely developing that skill.
(Joined just to comment!, been stalking for a while)
I find that sightreading music actually works well. If I’m wide awake/alert, I can sightread bach fugues with 4 voices, and I can mentally actively keep track of them simultaneously. On the low end of the scale, I find that I can only concentrate on one voice at a time and my sightreading performance drops significantly. I also play blitz go, but the problem is that you don’t realize then your moves are bad, and it’s only when you review your games the next day it’s obvious that you’ve played bad moves.
Another trick I use is to remember as many tunes, and their names, as possible. (This works better if you’ve listened to and memorized a /lot/ of different songs and are theoretically capable of recalling over a thousand songs). If I’m tired, I usually run into mental blocks when trying to remember how a specific song started.
Re: several people above who said they could monitor their own cognitive state with practice; I’m definitely developing that skill.