How to use Stage Mode to decorate lyrics
Use large font and scrolling as temporary support until you need to look less and less at the screen.
Stage Mode works better as memory support than as permanent reading. The idea is to gradually reduce the amount of times you look at the screen until the lyrics becomes active memory.
Passage 1 — full reference
Follow all the lyrics with large font and scrolling at a comfortable speed. Do not try to decorate yet; just recognize the order of the parts and where they begin choruses, bridges and repetitions.
Passage 2 — look at the entrances
In the second execution, turn away the view from the screen during the sentences and see only the beginning of each section. If you forget, wait a moment before you look: this little effort forces the memory to recover the information.
Pass 3 — test without screen
Disable scrolling or leave the screen out of the main field of view. Sing and consult only when you really stop. Then mark which parts still depend on reading.
Do not increase scroll speed to “force” memory. If the screen is running faster than your attention, you train anxiety, not memory.
Today's Practice
Choose a well-known song and try to halve the number of times you look at the lyrics between the first and third passages.
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