Music memory - Mnemonic games

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Developing New Learning Techniques

Developing a new learning technique takes time. When you want to remember the material for the longest possible time:

Schedule your study time in fairly short (maybe 60 minutes) time spans over a period of days or weeks.
Each day, spend a short (10 - 15 minutes) time reviewing or modifying what you already have done,
Spend another 50 minutes on new material.

By spacing the study times, you allow your memory to move the material from short-term memory to long-term memory.

The need for both study and review explains why "cramming" for a test does not work; when you put too much information into your brain at once, you have information overload. Doing this might help you remember the material at the very beginning and the very end of what you read, but all that material in the middle is lost. You can use different methods to help you rehearse and remember:

Highlight or underline your books;
Create and take quizzes on the material you need to learn;
Outline the material; read the material over and over again;
Use index or flash cards; take notes from the text;
Use any combination of these methods that works for you.

If cramming is your favorite rehearsal technique, click here and describe a rehearsal technique that might work for you as an alternative to cramming. In addition to considering flash cards, outlining, or creating a quiz, you might consider at least planning your cram session with regular breaks.

Use Mnemonics

Mnemonics are word association tools you can use or create to help you remember information. When you need to remember lists of people, places, or things, mnemonics can help.

Making stories or rhymes out of lists of items is one way to remember them. For example,

In grade school the teachers want the students to remember which months have thirty, thirty-one, or twenty-eight days, so:

"Thirty days hath September, April, June, and November"

Music teachers help their students along by teaching them the notes for the lines and spaces:

"Every Good Boy Does Fine" tells us that the notes for the lines are EGBDF, and
"F.A.C.E" tells us that the notes for the spaces are FACE.

THE STRUGGLE FOR A BETTER LIFE

When identical same-sex twins are brought up in exactly the same environment and treated exactly the same (clothing included), they usually behave and feel much the same.

But identical same-sex twins brought up as individuals have different personalities, are different people. Usually one is more dominant while the other is more emotional.

It is apparently easier for people who are `cold and calculating` to be dominant, to dominate those who are `emotional`.

Add that those dominating others may in this way acquire power over others, or social and economic gains from using, and from misusing, people.

Such a system rewards primitive inhuman brutal (beastlike) behaviour (acquiring territory by force, might is right), held in check only by the fear of consequences.

We also see that dominating others is conditioned, that is unnatural, behaviour which is destructive of humane behaviour. A throw-back to the level of the unthinking unfeeling primitive animal.

Humane behaviour is based on feelings of care and affection for the young and for the family, and then for other people and the community. From this emerges a sense of social responsibility: people matter and are important, need to be treated well and looked after, are entitled to share equally. Backed up by knowledge, understanding and reason.

And, in the hostile environment in which humanity finds itself, what is also needed is dedicated effort, strength and power to achieve a humane way of living, to achieve a good standard of living and a high quality of life.

Part of the hostile environment is an almost intentional-seeming conditioning which frequently portrays brutal behaviour as a norm, by media and other opinion-forming sources. This has the effect of brutalising society, seemingly legalising, making acceptable, inconsiderate and unfeeling behaviour towards other people.

What we see is a world-wide struggle for a humane life {8, 9} which shows people struggling to achieve a humane way of life, each struggling to advance at their own level of development and achievement, struggling against those who wish to dominate others, against those who wish to exploit others, against those who wish to oppress so as to exploit.

Struggling to achieve the satisfaction of needs which are entirely in line with what we have seen here in this report about the evolution and development of the human brain and human mind. Needs and wants such as those for survival (food, shelter, clothing) and secure existence, affection and esteem, friendly and trustful co-operation and companionship, independence from domination by others, high quality of life and living, self-realisation and development. And "people will co-operate with each other and work hard and well to satisfy these needs and gain much satisfaction from doing so". {8, 9}

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