Reply To: Memorizing

[the-old-coach]

Now this is also interesting….

I have– again– read thru every word of this thread, and am– again– amazed at the responses.

So maybe- (I shortened your words)- “As you get more familiar with… a song… you don’t need each…note…but might use the written music as a way of keeping track…”?

So after I’ve played a lesson or a lick or a portion of a song or whatever— enough times– (using the tab)- is there a point where it’s just kinda there to help “guide” me thru the parts I don’t have memorized yet?

Interesting— I feel like that is where I’m at. Just didn’t realize it!

After reading your post this morning, I really took notice of this in today’s practice.

What I noticed– In the same way I can play most of a lesson without looking at my hands, -I’m rough-guessing- (after I’ve “learned it“ and played it lots of times, of course)- I can play almost that much without looking at the tabs. So that’s interesting/ cool.

Is this from memory? or the start of intuition? Both? Did a light just come on?

So this just opens another door!– I’m gonna start thinking about how to become more “intuitive”, music-wise- (a la Jeff and MommaTAC’s first posts in this thread). That’s gonna take some music-edu-ma-cation, in keys and chords-within keys stuff. If it isn’t obvious– I’ve not really started in there yet.

But, hey, with zero music background– at all– maybe I’m actually right about where I “should” be 🤔 (whatever that means)….. and I feel really good about that!

Uh-oh— now it seems there is more than one boulder.

Mark J