The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #24777   Message #285755
Posted By: Sorcha
26-Aug-00 - 05:14 PM
Thread Name: Managing a repertoire held in memory
Subject: RE: Managing a repertoire held in memory
Lordy, Dave, you don't want much do you? LOL! I fiddle, so I don't muck about learning words, but I have probably 150 tunes in the A list, and maybe another 50-75 on the B list, more if we are counting the ones I don't really KNOW, but can fake around if somebody else leads. (I know that "keeping tunes" is not quite like "keeping songs". If I know it really well, it seems to not ever go away, but there does seem to be limited space in the File Cabinet, as it were.

I just use a cheat sheet of ALL the titles on the floor in front of me. I don't seem to need any devices to keep the tunes in my fingers, but the group has a habit of "r-naming" tunes so that the guitar player can remember them. Thus, "Sandy River Belle" became "Muddy Swamp Woman".