How about it gang, What tricks do you use when learning song's to memorize lyrics?? Thanks, Mark

Try playing without the book. You always remember something. The more you try the better it gets. All you need is a retrieval que.

Play it over and over again?

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+1

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Yup, that''s the way to do it, no tricks, just good old fashioned time & effort.

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Or you can just accept the fact that you can't remember everything and use a music stand. All you have to do is watch a few DVDs of concerts and you'll see lyric sheets or TV monitors inside the monitors on the floor. Some artists just accept it and have a music stand on stage. Or you can forget words and try to make it up as you go. I've done both. We play a lot of weddings and I use a small attachment to my mic stand and have lyrics and notes for songs that just won't stick in my head. I've been playing for 30 plus years and music and chords stay in my head but lyrics get all mixed up. We play a lot of weddings and when your playing the first dance or Father Daughter dance you don't want to ruin their moment, so I'll keep my notes. If you check out our web site you'll be able to see in some of the pictures that I use it and so does our other lead singer. I play over 100 songs and I'm over 50 and I just can't remember everything.

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I use a combination of some of the methods discussed here.

First, I use the repetitition, over and over, method to help really ingrain the tune in my skull.

But I also do have some cheats on stage to help with things that consistently escape me. I don't like to have a music stand by me so I just use my own short hand method. I write the most important word or two from a hard to remember line, something that I can glance at and think "oh yeah, that's the line." I write these notes big with a black marker and usually dedicate one sheet to a set, avoids having to write small.

Over time I've found that things don't need to be "short-handed" either, you remember them over time. But the repetition allows me to be able to go with only the briefest of notes to rely on.

Seems like no matter how well I know a tune, once I get on stage things go blank sometimes, (not that often but, often enough). We learn a new set once or twice a month so having a music stand right there is a Godsend. It is my opinion that its better to have that music in front of you so you can better play with fewer mistakes than to not have and make a lot of mistakes. Besides, those black music stands are hardly noticible by the audience.

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For me...aside from playing it over and over, I will make a cd of the tunes that are giving me problems and listen to them as I fall asleep on a very low volume...that has really been a great tool to help me.