I have trouble remembering my fingering with my music notes and scales it drives me nuts, blowing the sax notes is easy I practice and practice and it just don’t stick I come the next day and it’s like I have to learn it all over.
(Playing 3 1/2 years, practices 3 days/week)
-Robert
My response:
First off, I would recommend increasing the number of days you practice. It’s going to be hard to remember many things if you work on them less than half of the days of the week.
It’s possible that you’re also trying to learn too many notes or scales at once. Trying to learn one or two scales in a day is fairly reasonable, depending on your prior experience. Trying to learn 34 scales in a day is unlikely to happen!
You may also want to alternate between the scales you are learning. If you repeat a scale many times, it goes into your short term memory and you will begin to feel like you know it. That doesn’t mean it’s really in your long term memory.
If you would like to check out my class on scales, you can find it at
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