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I spent several years here on TAC working diligently on the daily techniques and at the end of it all if someone asked me to play a song I couldn’t play a single one.
I have since changed my practice routine and each day will work one or two songs after working on techniques. I rotate through 3-4 songs throughout the week. 2 will be fairly easy songs, 1 will be intermediate and 1 will be a song that may take me months to get.
My goal in learning songs is to be able to play them from memory, while singing, as if I were performing them.
Every Sunday I play through every song I have “performance” ready. This keeps them fresh and makes sure I don’t forget them. Occasionally if I’m have difficulty with one of these songs it will go back into the weekly practice rotation for a week or two.
For the past year my struggle has been singing along with the songs so I started voice lessons in January and learned to change the key to match my voice which has significantly helped with my songs, although sometimes it is hard to forget and unlearn the original key and learn the song in the new key.