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Ancient Memory on Repeats

Author: Roys_toys
Date: 2014-08-27 19:39

Hi
I’m hoping there are some suggestions that people know to help me overcome a problem due no doubt to advancing age.

I front a small rhythm section of drums, bass and lead guitar, and am having a problem of sometimes losing it on repeats. This can happen when I’m reading the dots;( playing freely I can fake it.).

To explain I’ll use a common structure for many standards as an example.
(A) Opening is 8 bars, repeated (B) for 6 bars with a different 2 bar second ending which leads into the rest of the tune (about 20 bars) . Then DS back to the top, play the A and B opening again before working down to the finish.

I never have problems with the original 8/16 bars , always know if we are in A or B. But when we return to the top to play A and B again ( ie for the 3rd and 4th time) I can find that I may be thinking “is it first or second ending ?”. I usually wake up in time, but it can feel earlier on in the A repeat ( ie the 3rd time ) as if maybe I’ve done A and should go straight to the second ending. Or early in the B repeat ( ie the 4th time) I might think I’m in A and then do another B while everyone else moves on.
thanks in advance
Roy

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