Thank you everyone for watching and of course, Hodge would recognize the drop tuning as he's the master of finding the right key for all his ukes...whatever that means!! hahaha
As for memorizing, there a couple of keys for me...
First, you gotta like the song as it's hard when you're forced to memorize something you don't like
Second, know how to play every song with the sheet music. I know a lot of people trying to memorize the "hard" parts because they have a hard time looking at the music and playing. That's not a good way as if you get nervous, you start forgetting as you will notice in almost everything I play, I mess up!
Thirdly, it really helps if you know what chord is used for the fingering picking as you can probably find notes close to that chord so it helps you remember the notes
Finally, most important is repetition...which ultimately means there's no magic formula!!