On 8 January 2011 14:10, Matt <[email protected]> wrote: > Anecdotally, dazedconfused, your example about piano resonates with > me, as I'm a musician as well. In most of the ensembles or private > instruction settings I've been in, there's been a tacit understanding > that 30 minutes of practice a day for five days is better than 2.5 > hours of practice on one day. SRS-style scheduling could be useful > for music even if procedural memory is unaffected, since music > performance also involves declarative memory. >
This is true. I did use Mnemosyne to help learn some pieces for a piano performance diploma last year (each card represented two bars, and cards overlapped by one bar), and it was helpful, even if only because it allowed me to systematically focus on every part of every piece (rather than just the bits I liked most) and give extra attention to the areas that were causing difficulties. Of course, this probably wouldn't work with dynamic cards, since if you only have problems in bars 80-81 then the individual card for those bars should be affected, where having one dynamic card would not allow this. However, perhaps you could have one dynamic card for recognising tone intervals, another for classifying chord cadences (i.e. perfect, interrupted, plagal, minor, etc), another playing a short sequence and identifying the key change (e.g. dominant, subdominant, relative minor). It's probably not hard to have them generate sounds with e.g. pygame. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "mnemosyne-proj-users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mnemosyne-proj-users?hl=en.
