Quote:
Originally posted by montunoman:
Thanks guys for the fantastic ideas- keep them coming.

I heard an interview with Paul McCarty, and he said when he's getting ready to tour and perform his old songs, he needs to get out his written lyrics and relearn the instrument parts. He made it sound like it wasn't easy for him. And he wrote those tunes!

I also have heard that Sinatra used a telepromter in his latter years. Some one told me that Mick Jagger uses one too.

One the other hand, last year I saw Tonny Bennett perform a two hour set and he nor his band used any charts at all. Amazing!

[This message has been edited by montunoman (edited 11-07-2010).]


Think of it this way:.......

If I asked you to sing "Happy Birthday" for me right now you would have NO Problem
doing that at all correct?....

Ok,.....Why?.....because, you have sung it so many times in your life that you know it by heart!! Same goes for learning songs/lyrics by memory....

Also you must try to learn to be able to play a song and know the chords just by listening to it on the radio....... this is a skill that is a must in my book as if you were jammin with your friends off the cuff.....to be able to sit down after you hear it and pretty much figure it out after listening a few times without charts of any kind. Then add the pressure of being in front of a paying audience and you'll be surprised how this will force you to play without the charts better & better each time. Another gratification of playing by memory is that you will have so much more FREEDOM to branch out, ad lib, and play songs "YOUR WAY" making the arrangement YOURS!!



[This message has been edited by Dnj (edited 11-07-2010).]