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We pipers spend huge amounts of effort, focus, concentration and worry on memorizing our tunes.  Unlike many other musicians, we play everything from memory. And also unlike many other musicians, we often play in competitions where every single note must be perfect to the written score — no extra notes, no missing ones. In Piobaireachd, the classical music of the Great Highland Bagpipe, the challenge of perfect memorization reaches its greatest heights and experienced listeners (e.g., competition judges) follow along with the written score to make sure every note of our 10-20 minute-long piece is correct. Today's post features an exciting new method I've developed to help you learn and remember your tunes, today and for a long time. I've previously written about the fascinating world of championship memorizers (yes they do have such a thing).  Moonwalking with Einstein is an excellent book with lots of details on this sub-culture and many lessons applicable to ...