mikelz777
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As I was adding some songs to my song book today, I realized that I have been playing the ukulele for about a year and a half now yet I don't really know any songs. I currently have 44 songs I've chosen for my songbook and there are many more waiting for chord diagrams and/or to be transposed to a key I can sing comfortably. As I sit here typing this, I can think of only 1 song that I can play by memory and that is the first song I ever learned on the ukulele. (Groucho's verses of Everyone Says I Love You from Horse Feathers.)
I do play regularly and sometimes for more than an hour at a time but I guess my joy and pleasure has been in playing for the moment. I haven't worked on memorizing anything so I'm chord/lyric sheet dependent. I could probably play bits and pieces of songs if pressed but only know one by memory. Is anyone else out there like this? If so, are you happy with this practice or do you have plans to memorize songs? I guess it would be nice to know a bunch of songs without having to look at a song sheet but I'm not sure how to go about it without it seeming too much like work.
I do play regularly and sometimes for more than an hour at a time but I guess my joy and pleasure has been in playing for the moment. I haven't worked on memorizing anything so I'm chord/lyric sheet dependent. I could probably play bits and pieces of songs if pressed but only know one by memory. Is anyone else out there like this? If so, are you happy with this practice or do you have plans to memorize songs? I guess it would be nice to know a bunch of songs without having to look at a song sheet but I'm not sure how to go about it without it seeming too much like work.