Is there a way to memorize tenor music in a week for a parade ?

try to find a pattern in it, an learn how it sounds. But most of all practice it snugglebunny. any free time you have sit down and play it, you should get it no problem. I memorized my marching band's entire third number in a week doing this.

the same way you memorize the snare/bass part.

if you're drumming all the time drumming is your life. if you're drumming what you need to memorize all the time it becomes part of your life. so...while you're watching tv (if you were serious you wouldn't be watching t.v.) drum your sh|t during the commercials, work a few bars at a time, when the show comes back on watch it, when there's another commercial break play the bars you worked on the last break without looking at the music.

i have bad eyes and i don't practice/read music in a well lit area so memorization is really the only option. it seems that when it's forced it doesn't work at all, just drum....drum....drum.

also, get a recording of the band or drumline playing the tune, that always helped me, especially because most parade tunes s^ck and aren't really written for the player to enjoy (and are most of the time old school parts unless they're written or re-written by an instructor).

Start by just doing a few measures at time with the music and just ramp it over and over until you can play it without the music, then do the next section. Also go through and mark repeated sections and learn how many times you do something before it changes. It also really helps if you can play with a recording. You also have to have a lot of discipline and play it a lot, and when you think you have it , play it some more. Especially if you have to march a show to it. Knowing music enough to play it standing still, not moving with no pressure is a lot different than to know it for a field performance.

i use what my old teacher taught me. if its not already divided into sections (A,B,C, etc...) then divide it any way you like i suppose. go through each measure of the section and learn it. then use the metronome to make sure ur in time (if that isnt obvious) and play the section. then turn it around and play what uve memorized. turn it around and pin point ur mistakes. work on those and pretty much keep memorizing and playing. and just keep going. hope that helps

I always got a recording or a MIDI of the piece, like Demonllama said. I would just play my part along with the recording over and over that way I not only learned my part, but I knew what was going on around it.

get to the point that you can hack your way through it (all the way), then rep it as many times as possible. rep, rep, rep.

If you play it enough,you'll memorize it on accident.

Heres a free lesson.

Learn it BACKWARDS. start at the last measure, learn it, then learn the measure before that and keep going. That way, even if you dont play perfectly the measure your trying to memorize, you can keep playing and further solidify what youve already done. It sounds like it would be confusing but its not. Give it a shot.

Learning backwards is very effective... I use it all the time, and generally pick up memorization a great deal faster. I'll definitely reiterate the learning from the end to the beginning point.