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Hello @Kristin1
One of the people who attends the VOMs regularly says he has something like over 400 songs on his play list. I was amazed and asked him how he stays up on them. He told me that he has a database containing all the songs he has learned, and he keeps it updated when each song is played on a VOM. He doesn’t actually record when he practices them, but he usually plays through them before the VOM. And he attends a lot of VOMs, not just the ones we guitar geeks run.
For myself, I don’t have that many songs, but I still have trouble keeping up with all of them. I am trying to play some songs everyday. It seems that a new song has to be played almost everyday for weeks before it becomes a “back pocket song”. Once it’s a back pocket song, I find I don’t have to play it more often than every other month or so. But, I don’t just play it once. I go through it several times, play it in a VOM, maybe record it. And then it can be set back for a while again.
Honestly, I’m still working on perfecting my song rotation and keeping them sharp. So far, I can only keep a handful sharp, maybe 20, though I know at least double that. I have, at least, made a list and have started trying to keep track of playing them once in a while.
I hope this helps. I hope others come by and share their system of keeping songs sharp. I could use more ideas.
MG 😀