The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #151514 Message #3537026
Posted By: Ebbie
13-Jul-13 - 12:07 PM
Thread Name: remembering lyrics
Subject: RE: remembering lyrics
I don't usually find it difficult to learn new songs, particularly if the verses follow a coherent pattern. When two verses, say, can be plugged in just about any place, it makes it harder.
What I have to do, however, is to not start thinking about something else while singing the song. When I stay *in* the song, the lines keep feeding themselves to me.
Now, tunes, instrumentals are much harder for me, both to learn and to retrieve them as needed from my mind. For instance, these days I am making music with a woman from Saipan. She does fingerstyle tunes from Saipan, Guam, China, Japan and some American. Beautiful tunes, tunes I want to learn; I'm being very slow at it. I can play individual tunes back to her at the time but last night at music, for instance, I couldn't get a single tune of them started.