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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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Re: Ancient Memory on Repeats

Author: fskelley
Date: 2014-08-27 20:33

The older I get, the more I find comfort in not relying so much on remembering anything, but rather doing something semi-automatically so I don't have to remember. For example, sometimes I take my granddaughter with me to church, and need to go get her from the child care area afterwards. Other Sundays I don't. So I park on the left side of the parking lot for situation A, and the right side for B, and I NEVER vary that. And when I leave church I always know what to do.

In your situation I would invent something I'm always doing on the 1st time through and different on the 2nd. Facing slightly left and then right? Weight on left foot or right? Pushing down with left big toe and then right? I'd experiment until I no longer had to worry about it... automatic.

Stan in Orlando

EWI 4000S with modifications

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Re: Ancient Memory on Repeats

Author: Roys_toys
Date: 2014-08-31 04:02

Stan

Thanks. That sounds as if it might work ( left and right) so I shall try to build a habit along those lines.

Regards

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