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From Tim Sander on 1/13/2012 6:10:04 AM

I think this was a good sign...but maybe it just means I've lost my marbles. Picked up my banjo to practice a few tunes while watching the news last night. It was in open G. Just started fooling around and before I knew it, I was playing a two part tune that sounded really familiar, but for the life of me, I could not begin to recall it's name or having learned it. Since I've been learning from tabs....this is really weird. I may have actually stumbled into a tune by picking it out by ear, but I really don't know yet. I just wish I could identify it and figure out where I learned it. Anyway, I practiced it for a while and it was like I was just playing it for the first time. Not like I'd ever played it before. I'm hoping it means I'm getting better and not that I'm just getting terribly forgetful.

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	Bob Buckingham says: 1/13/2012 6:21:48 AM Sounds like the osmosis is kicking in. Once I thought I had made up a tune. Man I felt great about it. Later that day I put an LP on while I prepped supper and they stole my tune! Got to love it.
	bearbear says: 1/13/2012 6:53:46 AM I think you are getting better. You will find similarities in the "licks" that are in a tune. You will also find that a lot of the beginnings and ending are very similar. I say savor the moment.
	welshman says: 1/13/2012 6:55:23 AM I've never used tab too much (I think it goes back to a music teacher trying to make me read music!), but what you describe is kinda' the way it happens for me. It's kind of a familiar tune and then this chord that chord seem to sort of fit in the melody..and viola ...there's a song. A lotta' times I have to go find the tune somewhere to find the name of it. Your ear is opening. welshman
	AlpacaLips says: 1/13/2012 7:30:59 AM Just be glad you didn't pursue "your creation" through to arranging it for multiple instruments and then recording it before discovering that it wasn't yours. I've done that. A lot of professionals get sued over copyright infringement, and I suspect that a lot of the time it's an innocent mistake due to just this phenomenon.
	Bob Buckingham says: 1/13/2012 7:38:35 AM There is much to be said for backporch and kitchen picking.
	Tim Sander says: 1/20/2012 6:34:14 AM It turns out it was "Squirrel Heads and Gravy". I had learned it before, but hadn't played it in a while and forgot about it. Doh.
	Bob Buckingham says: 1/20/2012 8:31:19 AM So you do remember the tune, just not all of the time. Been there, represent that.
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