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Hi @mkjohnsons slipping?….I thing you are one step behind the DoDah Man…truckin right along. I relate to the idea of getting the songs down cold but it takes time and effort. Start weaning yourself of the song sheets, one verse at a time. Get the songs down and then start playing as in messing around with them. Play them with the artist and then play them on your own. Helps me keep it tight. And lastly find someone to play with in IRL. I had a chance last month to play with Sherpa and TJ and the benefit of this is incalculable. I had an opportunity to crash and burn on a song I had been wanting to learn for a while and after having taken it off the rails with them it somehow got locked in correctly. You have the most important thing down, keep it fun keep it light. Set your goal, make it realistic and pursue, achieve, then set another goal, reflect on the feeling of the goal achieved and carry on. I learned a Robert Earl Keen tune, Gringo Honeymoon, and I thought I would never be able to get it. There were a thousand verses and the strumming stumped me for the longest time but…I just kept slogging away one verse at a time and darn if I didn’t get it down. Two years in the making. Never thought I was a quick study but once I get the bone in my teeth I am not going to drop it.