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stumpkicker - Posted - 05/31/2009: 12:32:15
Hi Group,
I had minor surgery on Friday so I will be home by myself all week. So I figure this is a great opportunity for some serious woodshedding. As I'm digging out old books and BNL's I'm realizing how many songs I used to nail that I've forgotten. I'm not talking about vocal numbers where as long as you have the basic melody and an arsenal of licks you can do all right, I'm talkinga bout non advbanced instrumentals as well as some Joplin rags and classical pieces I know.
So how do people set up their practice times to keep up their old stuff while learning new? BTW I have about an hour of banjo time a day
Raise Your Action & Listen to Earl
Kstevensmd - Posted - 05/31/2009: 13:07:14
I keep a list of the songs I know, and part of my practice everyday is ot spend a few minutes with an old song and just work my way down my list. Frustrating isn't it!!
Ken Stevens
Grafton, MA
rexhunt - Posted - 05/31/2009: 14:34:59
Heck, I have trouble remembering some of the songs our band plays regularly. Not really forget the tune but forget the name. I've played a lot of tunes in my 40+ years of playing but the band I'm in now plays some I've never played before - those are the ones I forget by name. Some times I hear someone else play a tune and it all comes back to me. Someone just gave me an old vinyl record of Flatt and Scruggs and I suddenly remembered that I knew how to play Fireball on the Dobro. I've never been much for making lists but I know that works for lots of people. As I get older and my mind grows dimmer, I'm going to have to start making lists too. Now where did I put that song list???
Rex
MrNatch3L - Posted - 06/01/2009: 03:19:53
Just remember: everything you once knew is still in there. To borrow from computer technology, it's not in RAM anymore, and maybe not in main disk storage either, but archived. But it's not gone (unless that minor surgery was some kind of lobotomy  ). You'll have to do some work to get it from backup. But I bet things will come back easier than you think.
For me the trick to keep stuff at least in main disk storage is to just run over stuff regularly. Not daily, for sure, no time for that. But I try to make a cycle that keeps going around over a month or so. Not that I always succeed - I don't because I am trying to remember everything on 3-4 instruments + learn new stuff once in a while.
Good luck.
jwstahl - Posted - 06/01/2009: 04:06:44
In my experience, the rate of forgetting tunes increases with age. Sometimes it seems exponential rather than linear. I've become pretty careful about tabbing out the decent breaks I develop (or steal) just in case I want to recall them later.
By the way, this is why everyone should learn tab, imho.
John
prewartb3 - Posted - 06/01/2009: 04:51:25
Join the club. The older I get the less songs I can remember.
PrewarTB3
afchap - Posted - 06/01/2009: 05:16:49
I've heard that as we get older, the memory is 2nd thing to go. The first? Fortunately I can't remember...
Afchap
"Seek ye first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness..."
Texasbanjo - Posted - 06/01/2009: 05:46:51
I thnk it's fairly normal to forget songs that you don't play regularly. I was at a jam last month and they played Sledd Ridin' -- I USED to know it, but just completely forgot it and couldn't take a break on it -- darn! Went home and got out the tab (no, I don't use tab much, but since I couldn't even remember the tune....) and ran through it a couple of times, change a few things where it was more "me" than "them" and now can play it just fine. Took a couple of days to get it back in my memory and pretty much up to speed.
Let's face it, when you get over a hundred or two songs under your belt, there's no way you can remember every one of them.
Let''s Pick!
Texas Banjo
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