That would be extraordinary! The ability to recall long passages of words verbatim after a single hearing is rare indeed. Fluency is not musical memory: it won’t mean you hear a piece once and remember it note-for-note. This means that any music you can imagine or remember is playable. When you listen to music, you can grasp exactly what is going on tonally and rhythmically, and can imagine the score writing out in real time. If you are fluent in this way, when you look at an unfamiliar score, you can hear it playing instantly in your head. Grasping musical vocabulary in this way, allows us to “say” musical sounds exactly as we intend them. So I teach others to discover the same skill of processing rhythm cells and tonal blocks, in real time, with effortless ease, much as we all use words in our native tongue. Whether improvising, playing by ear or reading fluently from a score, the sounds I make using the piano keys are exactly those I hear in my imagination. As a fluent and literate musician, I use a set of simple principles and elements – musical vocabulary and syntax – to express myself spontaneously and instantly without needing to rehearse or resort to theoretical decoding.
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