[HANASHIR:1566] Re: HANASHIR digest 354

[Carol Anderson <caanders...>]

Raquel, I enjoyed your note.  I have a son like that too. I am often trying
to learn songs for the plays I am in or trying out for, I have to listen to
the song several times.  he hears it once and sings it all over the house.
unfortuneately at the tryouts I am usually handed sheet music and asked to
sing part of the song and I can't do that. My son also listens to the
teacher play the piece at his piano lesson, and then just knows it. He gets
bonus points from the teacher for not looking at his music when he plays
and he almost always has it memorized even though he only practices 5-10
min 3-4 times a week.

>In a message dated 10/23/98 2:03:26 AM, you wrote:
>
><<Many do better by ear and can listen to a recording and
>get it easily.  Some, like myself, really need the music to be able to grasp
>the
>song.
>>>
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>* I coined that phrase as a child... my piano teacher from 5th - 12th grade,
>who was slightly senile, used to ask me EVERY week whether I had a
>photographic memory, because I never looked at the music and always played by
>memory.  And EVERY week I'd say, NO, I have a PHONOgraphic memory!   Seems my
>kids have inherited it too, at least my oldest.  He hears a song or piece of
>music in my car ONE time, and 3 weeks later I hear him humming it in the
>shower (or wherever) note for note!


>P.S. sorry to bore the whole list with this letter to judy!