I share your frustration Montunoman. I've been trying to get this memorization thing down using suggestions from Donny and others for a few years. I remember Fran's story from a few years ago he related attempt to give me some assistance memorizing tunes. . Maybe my efforts have been half hearted, ARRGGH I still need the charts. I'll be the first to admit I get disgusted when it doesn't come together as quickly as I would like. But at 58 working a full time job, gigging part-time, family responsibilities I run out of steam at 9 or 10 PM when trying to memorize. Amazing thing is that when I studied piano late teen early 20s, there's some tunes I memorized from repetition and can play them piano solo style with my eyes closed, no charts, no sheet music.

I have been reading this book on piano studies that contains some helpful hints on memorization you can download it for free. So I haven't given up just get frustrated with it.

Downloadable Piano Practice Book

You may also want to do a Google search for musicians memorization tricks.

Tips on How to Memorize Music by Robert Kelly

For me there's memorizing lyrics is not too difficult, I do that part during some of my daily commute to the day job.

Good luck!



[This message has been edited by Stephenm52 (edited 11-06-2010).]