The point is that musicians don’t typically learn new pieces one note at a time once they have reached a certain level of experience, knowledge, and proficiency. They can scaffold on the previous pieces they know, and just note any variations from the standard schema. Memory for playing a musical piece therefore involves a process very much like that for music listening as we saw in Chapter 4, through establishing standard schemas and expectation. In addition, musicians use chunking, a way of organizing information similar to the way chess players, athletes, and other experts organize
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