CeeJay
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BEVOMU does, in the bath...apparently...The "observed" effect. That's why we're such wonderful singers in the shower!
I should start practicing uke in there too.
BEVOMU does, in the bath...apparently...The "observed" effect. That's why we're such wonderful singers in the shower!
I should start practicing uke in there too.
The "observed" effect. That's why we're such wonderful singers in the shower!
I should start practicing uke in there too.
BEVOMU does, in the bath...apparently...
So does Mr. Yak!
lol!BEVOMU does, in the bath...apparently...
Count me among those that when that camera is recording, I have issues with a song I otherwise know well.
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SO I started a new idea. I practice at sunset. With the lights off. My song sheet is there, my crutch, but as the sun sets it becomes more and more difficult to read it. Eventually you can't see it and guess what? You can still play.
When I really must absolutely learn a song off-book, I just play it overandoverandoverandover. That works. My wife is not fond of that technique, as the songs that I have memorized are now ones that she is sick of. Oh well!
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One more memorization strategy I've used in addition to many of those already mentioned... practice singing the song without playing uke until you've got the words and melody cold; practice the chords without singing along until you've got them; then put together singing and uke after you know each separately.
I've been applying some of the things I learned from this article someone posted on a Facebook group the other day, and it's been helping:
How to Memorize Music 5 Times Faster
Thanks for posting that, it's a really interesting article. I particularly like the advice about naps
I haven't read this particular article but I will presume that it also has a suggestion about leave it alone for a few days maybe a couple of weeks ?
The brain can't do everything ,as brilliant as it is, when you are learning something...it is coping with:
..reading the new chords/strum/picking patterns or fingerings.
Driving the fingers / vocal bits and pieces /Standing up/ sitting up/what's for dinner?
....ooh was that a butterfly just went past my window (squirrel!!)
Reading and sending all these memos to the various relevant departments .
Note to owner . You want me to remember this stuff AS WELL....gimme a break......
So ,do give the old grey matter a break, play something else for a while ,do something familiar....go back in acouple of days and hey presto....your brain will recall the work and you will find that some of it will have stuck .
I stumbled across this by accident as a kid . When coming back from holidays (you did not take instruments with you on my hols ) or weekends away without an instrument I thought I was playing better and remembering things better ....many years later ...many,many in fact, I read this article and thought ...bugger ...if I had only written it down myself ...lol.
To be fair though....some things never ever stick.....after 10 years I still get the chord prog for Plaisir D'Amour wrong ....I forget to go from the second F to the G...or is it the C ? Dang.
It was more to do with how sleeping, even napping, consolidates memory. But the leaving it alone for a bit thing is definitely true as well (probably for the same reasons).
If I'm trying to learn new music I find it really hard to stop, I tend to just bang away at it until someone tries to put me out of my (and their) misery by smothering me with a cushion. Walking away for a while and coming back to it fresh is a much better idea, and probably makes you less likely to repeat the same mistakes.
Funnily enough, the simple chord progressions are the ones I find hardest to memorise. C, G, F.. all just seem to merge into one in my whisky-addled head.
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