we'll see how many songs I'm going to have to learn in the next month or two
Documented in this thread on the Cafe. I asked lots of questions, folks with a lot of knowledge replied, I did some research and asked more as I learned more, and here we are. I am bookmarking this partially for myself, but also in the hopes it can help others first approaching the really complicated, and somewhat confusing, world of home recording.
Not difficult.
I learned to do it as a child, and now I am being pushed by Mike Marshall to do it again. How I have gone about it.
- Drill on the flash cards on Mandozine.com
- Did the first couple of exercises in Marylinn Mair's book.
- Picked a simple tune from the Fiddler's Fakebook.
Point 1: teaches you the notes on the staff (if you don't already know them from Every Good Boys Deserve Fudge type mnemonics) and more importantly where they lay on the fretboard.
...of songs I know or once could play before one of my recent hiatuses from playing. Count is up to 41!So why do I have such a hard time remembering a tune at a jam?
And with it another lesson. The version of Bill Cheetam I learned (from lessons of all things) has the B part in the wrong key! Its more of a harmony line. I played it through once, thinking "that sounds off, maybe its my timing" and the second time I was like "oh dear". So I turned to the jam leader Ran Bush and asked him if I were in the wrong key. He chuckled and said "yeah, you have a jazzy thing going there" D'oh! But the Tuesday jams at the 5th String in Berkeley
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