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Method #2 - Recognition of the Repetition
It
usually helps to have a copy of your music before you do this (you
might mess up a few times like I did the first few times), and a few
different colored highlighters.
OR
Scan your music, and use Paint (or some other similar software) to box the similar phrases.
This
method is practiced a lot in the bagpiping world, and above all it
makes sense! I used to see it happen all of the time to just about every
other beginner piper, including myself. Why should you treat a phrase
of music differently if you see it later? It's still the same, right?
Well, sometimes if you're not looking for the same phrases within the
music you won't notice it until you've already memorized the music.
However, if you discover the repetition prior to memorizing a piece of
music you can use definitely use it to your advantage. It's less to
memorize.
Try this: highlight the large phrases of music that
are repeated, or any phrases of any size that you notice are repeated in
different colors. This is ESPECIALLY common in bagpipe music. One of
the biggest tricks that the music publisher makes (not that they're
trying hard to make you unable to memorize their music) is that
different amounts of space between notes that are really the same can
fool the human eye. Be very careful when looking for similar phrases!
Below is an example:
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