One challenge in understanding your own memory slips is determining their cause.
For piano performance, is it insufficient practice? Leaning too hard on muscle memory? Not playing on enough different pianos/environments? Playing in front of an audience? Or maybe you just had a bad day that day for some completely unrelated reason, like some other stressor prior to the recital?
There are lots of things you can do to avoid memory slips, and the more the better. But I think it’s also good for people to be skeptical/open-minded about inferring cause and effect. Better just to do the virtuous actions and assume they’ll all work together to give a benefit.
Yeah, I forgot to mention, I actually tried that too! I at least visited one of my teacher’s other students and tried performing on her piano.
It’s harder for me to tell how much it helped, but I think it was useful, at least for my own confidence.
One challenge in understanding your own memory slips is determining their cause.
For piano performance, is it insufficient practice? Leaning too hard on muscle memory? Not playing on enough different pianos/environments? Playing in front of an audience? Or maybe you just had a bad day that day for some completely unrelated reason, like some other stressor prior to the recital?
There are lots of things you can do to avoid memory slips, and the more the better. But I think it’s also good for people to be skeptical/open-minded about inferring cause and effect. Better just to do the virtuous actions and assume they’ll all work together to give a benefit.