This happens to me quite a bit, when I haven't played one of my own pieces for a long time. I'll get half-way through it, and all of a sudden I'll draw a blank -- pretty frustrating!

But -- here's my solution. Many moons ago I wrote out most of my compositions by hand, as a winter project on long dreary snowbound days. And I'm glad I did!   Cuz now, when those lapses happen, I can just dig out my ole score and refresh my brain cells. And writing them down has another advantage -- I can share them with my students. Which is great -- I luv it when the 'mistakes' they make sound so good to me I'll change the score and incorporate them! Which has happened a couple times over the years ...

so,save yourself the grief and write your best songs down, folks -- that's my 2c worth anyway!

daylia