Making a playlist

1-We make a list of songs that we are familiar with.
2-If you are playing gigs, and you are sensitive to your audience, they will let you know what type or what songs they want.
3-You constantly upgrade your playlist, deleting and adding. I played in a N/H. for three years. My play list changed from Five Two type of music to disco and upbeats music, it is what they wanted.
4-As a home player a playlist is made by songs that appeal to you. It is like taking trips to places you want to see. Your playlist will be made up of songs that that YOU like, songs that have that may have a special meaning to you.

Learning/Memorizing songs

1-Home players and players who play differ here.
2-The home player has no need to learn a song, many use a written music to guide him. On occasions he might memorize a song.
3-The gigging musician will always perform better when he memorizes the song. He is aware of the chord progressions, the different keys, the structure of the song. Learning the melody of a song is normally the easy part.
4-There is something magical that happens when you memorize a song and play many times – your hands learn the song. What does that mean? Your hands go to the next chord without thought. As I am leaving my garage I reach up and press my remote -- after a while I did that without thought – started the car and reach up for the remote.
5-I find memorizing lyrics is the most difficult part of memorizing. On one of my jobs I saw a stunning woman sitting in all her glory at the bar – legs crossed gently. I learned that she was a lead singer in a Broadway musical. I asked her how she memorized the lyrics of the many songs she needed to perform. I never forgot what she said. “I look for the story being told in the lyrics. Then I put myself in the middle of the story, trying to feel the emotion” Wow, she was right in. I used that method, I got more of me into the song, and memorized 90% of the lyrics. The other 10% I made up. (smile)

OK, it’s 4am, and I felt like doing something, gotta go, John C.

PS, Dave I like this --
Do your best to be invisible... and kind.