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Originally Posted by rick-slo
Memorization is a huge issue. You need to put in a lot of time playing through your pieces to maintain decent sized fingerstyle repertoire. If it's a melodic tune focus on memorizing melody line and while playing be mentally ahead of where you are actually playing at the moment to where the melody is going. Tunes you have learned, let lapse, relearned, let lapse, relearned, etc. often start to stick with you longer with less effort. With the fairly limited play time I put in I have forgotten 98% of the tunes I have learned - one reason I started trying to get good recordings of stuff.
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Originally Posted by Nailpicker View Post
I heard TE say that to remember and perfect songs he plays songs over and over and over until his family begs him to stop. Then he goes on continuing to play them over and over and over.
Sometimes I get SO frustrated with myself because it seems that it takes so long to learn fingerstyle pieces, and I feel like I must be horribly slow. Then I read this! I guess we all need to be more patient with ourselves. On a positive note, ( no pun intended) the single thing that has helped me the most (thank you String5) is honing in on a trouble spot and repeating it over and over. It's usually just certain parts of a piece that give us trouble, and since the same ones tend to reappear several times in the piece, if we can get them down, the whole piece starts to fall into place.