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Hi Lisa18wheels, I can’t help with the memorizing thing but I can help philosophically based on my own experience. I hit roadblock after roadblock with memorization and even once memorized, making it practical and accessible to my fingers remained problematic. I found success when I broke it down to keys and sequences in the keys (especially regarding the songs I was learning and loved to play). All the while I kept?keep the concept of the wheel in the back of my head and when stuck I would refer to it. The wheels order, “rote”, was not my goal. Over time the relationships became more clear as a matter of familiarity and repetition. If you are composing maybe use it as a reference? I had greater success messing with scale, scale degrees, tonality, harmonic scales and triad scales etc interlaced with the CAGED concept. All those things are the building blocks of the Wheel. Seemed more doable in pieces. It is maybe why I liked Tony’s teaching method so much: worked in my addled brain. I didn’t have to memorize it, I could play by sound once I worked out the basic concept.