What is holding you back from reaching your musical dreams? Most often what is holding us back from achieving our goals is the very thing we are avoiding for one reason or another. This is certainly true with learning to play the piano. Memorizing music facts for example is a great way to keep important piano knowledge at your fingertips!

If your dream is to learn to play the piano well, don’t avoid acquiring the knowledge you need to play with ease, accomplish more, and understand the music you're trying to play. Yes it’s true that memorization takes time and concentrated effort. That’s why piano students tend to avoid it. But if this is you, don’t worry. It's just a habit that can be changed. My advice for you: Just Do It Today!

Focus on your goals by committing to spend time memorizing music facts with a specific plan for covering your material. This could be things like note names, scales, chords, key signatures, Circle of 3rds, Circle of 5ths, and memorizing pieces of music.

Here’s a simple 7-step plan to help you get started by writing down your goals.

Step 1 - What music facts do you want to memorize this year?

Step 2 - What music facts do you want to memorize this month?

Step 3 - What music facts do you want to memorize this week.

Step 4 - What music facts do you want to memorize today.

Step 5 - Do it!

Step 6 - Keep doing it!

Step 7 - Every month celebrate your progress by doing something special for yourself, such as buying a new piano CD, music book, or tickets to a concert.

Follow this straight-forward plan and I guarantee that every day you’ll have more music knowledge at your fingertips then you had the day before, and be empowered with a valuable tool for achieving your musical dreams. By the end of the year you’ll wonder why you didn’t “Just Do It” sooner!

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