Many of you know me fairly well by now, and if you've been working with me for a while you'll know how I love to experiment, especially with ideas about the brain, the body, and the learning!
I've been thinking for a few weeks about the phenomenon of forgetting things as you walk through doors. The last five years has seen quite a bit of research into this, and it turns out we do have a tendency to forget things when we walk through doors. There are many articles about this on the internet but here is one that is a good overview of the subject: http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20160307-why-does-walking-through-doorways-make-us-forget
What I've been especially thinking about is how many doors people pass through between their practice room and my studio. Your home, your car, the front door, the studio door, maybe more. And research shows that metaphorical doors can be just as obstructive. The traffic, the appointment en route...
It's not easy to construct a good experiment without going to your practice rooms for lessons - nice but a little impractical. But I'll thinking of ways to connect those two spaces, and you might do the same. If you're sitting in the waiting room, don't try to remember a piece, but perhaps conjure up the room where you practice. Notice your memory of the harps, the floor, the things around you, your stand, the music a s it sites there. And we'll try to continue that a bit when you get through the last door. Can't hurt...