Members satmanjf@gmail.com Posted August 26, 2017 Members Share Posted August 26, 2017 I'm wondering if this is common, I'm sure it is or maybe it's age. I've been playing 27 years and forgot how to play songs I use to know. 1st song I learned was "One" by Metallica. , Can't remember it. I tried Diary of a madman yesterday and can't remember that either.If I give it 10 minutes or so I will stumble on to bits and pieces and eventually put it together. I feel as the more I learn the more I forget, strange Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Chordite Posted August 26, 2017 Members Share Posted August 26, 2017 I can relate to something similar which is that I have been listening to some stuff of mine that I taped 20 years back with some improvised chords and I simply don't have a clue what I played. I play what I think I did but it sounds completely different. I thought it was burned in but it isn't. Even listening to the guitar track alone with the vocals off I can only get half of it by ear. So yeah, sometimes stuff falls off the far end of the conveyor. If I can attach an MP3 of a bit to a post? I'll show you.Okay done( Its not the 'song' just the last minute of the guitar track on it's own isolated from the vocals and keys) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members satmanjf@gmail.com Posted August 26, 2017 Author Members Share Posted August 26, 2017 Cool chodite, will be looking for that mp3.The issue is kind of funny though. In the sense of memory.But with my lifestyle, I guess it's expected. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Bucksstudent Posted August 26, 2017 Members Share Posted August 26, 2017 Oh yeah. I remember Sabbath, REM, and even Rage Against the Machine riffs I learned almost a decade ago, yet I have never been able to remember stuff like Stairway and Randy Rhoads. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members hellion_213 Posted August 26, 2017 Members Share Posted August 26, 2017 Oh yes, definitely relate. Much like chordite, I've got a bunch of past recordings and can't remember what I was doing in half of them. Slayer and Metallica songs I knew like the back of my hand, I only remember certain riffs. Sucks. But I still remember the first whole song I ever learned, and can still play it - Movin Out - Aerosmith. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members satmanjf@gmail.com Posted August 26, 2017 Author Members Share Posted August 26, 2017 Chordite- The mp3 sounds pretty good, gives me a jazzy vibe, like it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Emory Posted August 26, 2017 Members Share Posted August 26, 2017 Chords and all that stuff I can usually access. Fun part is not remembering the songs to be in my mental playlist. Oh yeah, and the lyrics... so I make up new ones on the fly. Some think I am clever at that, but it is just can't seem to find the words.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members badpenguin Posted August 26, 2017 Members Share Posted August 26, 2017 It's like the old saying "use it,. or lose it". Some things I haven't played in 20 years, I will have to fight to remember it. Others, that I do somewhat regularly, I can play without thought. It's normal and common Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Axisplayer Posted August 27, 2017 Members Share Posted August 27, 2017 I feel like I play soundbites and not songs a lot of the time. I will remember little parts that I worked really hard on, or a cool riff, and forget the entire rest of the song. Its like I have so many memory slots and when they fill up, something has to go to make room for more tunes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members satmanjf@gmail.com Posted August 27, 2017 Author Members Share Posted August 27, 2017 I hate to say it but I'm relieved it's not just me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members humbuckerstrat Posted August 28, 2017 Members Share Posted August 28, 2017 I used to be able to do pinch harmonics in the '70s but now I can't do them anymore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil O'Keefe Posted August 28, 2017 Share Posted August 28, 2017 I've been asked by bands I've recorded or produced to sit in on guitar for a live show on several occasions, and have had to go back and relearn parts I played on the albums. Once I figure out the part and lay it down, it's not likely I'm going to remember it - it's not like I'm playing it live night after night, and that repetition over a long period of time tends to be what keeps it fresh in your memory. If you don't play something for a long time, it's quite possible to forget it. OTOH, on a positive note, it seems to be a lot easier to relearn something you once knew than it is to learn it to begin with. If you start working on it again, it will probably come back to you pretty quickly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members crustoleum Posted August 28, 2017 Members Share Posted August 28, 2017 could read, play, age 8-11, stopped, bad move...can still play, but not "sight read", as "fast" as "music" requires......oh well, still play though... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members crustoleum Posted August 28, 2017 Members Share Posted August 28, 2017 practice, always Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members xStonr Posted August 28, 2017 Members Share Posted August 28, 2017 I used to remember....um.....what was I talking about? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil O'Keefe Posted August 28, 2017 Share Posted August 28, 2017 could read, play, age 8-11, stopped, bad move...can still play, but not "sight read", as "fast" as "music" requires......oh well, still play though... I think sight reading is definitely something you need to do a lot in order to be good at it. The more you do it, the faster you'll become. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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