Learning Schemes

Playing from sheets:

1. Eye receives symbolic input what to play
2. Visual information goes to left/analytical brain part where is translated to information what key to press
3. Signal goes to the finger and a tone is played
4. Sound from the instrument goes to the ear
5. Sound is shifted from the ear to the right/emotional part of the brain

It is an open circuit. The interpreter works as a translator of input information into playing activity.
Feedback principle here is very loose, ears check if right and not wrong keys are pressed and overall quality of output. Left and right parts of brains work quite independently there is no stimulation of their cooperation.
Only interpretation technique is being developed. General musicality is used, but is not being developed much neither musical memory is being developed.
Left part of the brain is permanently loaded with notation analysing.

Playing by heart:

1. Source of "what to play" is in the brain from where it goes into fingers
2. Sound from the instrument goes to the ear
3. From the ear sound is shifted to the right/emotional part of the brain, initial intention is compared with the result.
Eyes are watching the keyboard and hands and thus bring overall support of the whole process.

Feedback principle plays a bigger role here, because comparison between initial intention and final result is necessary.

It is a closed circuit. The whole process starts in the brain and ends there too.
But - do the sides of the brain cooperate closely? It is not sure. If there is no interconnection developed between them, they don't have to. Then the process can start in the left part of the brain and ends in the right one. In such a situation, playing is predominantly muscle-memory oriented. You can easily diagnose it by interrupting playing at any moment. If you are not able to quickly recover and proceed or at least find close position and continue playing, it is the case.

There is still another question - how to traverse from the "score sheets" scheme to this one? The schemes show significant differences (source is elsewhere, eyes are used differently). Definitely it is not any straightforward step.

Aural learning:

1. Phonetic input information what to play goes to the ear
2. From the ear sound is shifted to the right/emotional part of the brain. From there it is shifted to the left/analytical part that determines how to play this sound on the instrument.
3. Signal goes into fingers
4. Sound from the instrument goes to the ear
5. Sound is shifted from the ear to the right/emotional part of the brain, initial intention is compared with the result.
Eyes are watching the keyboard and hands and thus bring overall support of the whole process.

Here we can see strong similarity to the sheme of "playing by heart". The circuit is the same, just extended with the outer phonetic input. So obviously tranfering this circle into the desired "by heart" circle is one step. Not only that. This way of learning stimulates close cooperation between the two halves of the brain so that they work in harmony. Emotional part of the brain forces analytical part to find right positions of the keys on the keyboard, thus such interconnections between the two halves of the brain are being developed. Aural/emotional, tactile and visual perception associations are being built.
Musical memory is being developed naturaly as we gradually remove outer sound information incentives, inner musical memory takes over it's content.