10 Science-Backed Steps This Opera Singer Uses to Memorize Music
I bet a few will surprise you.
Back in 2013, when I was rehearsing La bohème, I got this text from a fellow chorister:
Many of us had been furiously studying our music over the past week, getting ready for staging rehearsals, when we had to be off-book.
I had also spent almost the entire month of July memorizing the role of Dame Quickly in Falstaff, so good memorization techniques had been fresh in my mind.
Step #1: Repetition, Repetition, Repetition
Usually when people ask me how to memorize something, I tell them to repeat it over and over again. It might sound a little obvious, but it’s the only way that you’re guaranteed to remember something.
You know how some television and radio ads repeat a phone number so many times that it is annoying? It’s because they are trying to get you to remember it.
In the marketing world, it’s called the Rule of Seven; in the psychology world, it’s called Miller’s Law.
Hold a strand of regular thread between your hands. If you apply a small amount of tension, you can easily…
