Re: How do you remember all those tunes?
Slightly different situation but similar frustrating result, as in, "I feel your pain!":
Besides more free-form fun, I've been playing in a mandolin orchestra for the past 5-6 years. Started on mandolin, but a second guitar was more critical so I switched. Now however, we have 4 good-to-excellent guitar players and some retired mandolinists, so I switched back. 2nd mandolin is often more complicated than 1st (riffs, fills, harmonies, counter-melodies that sound little like the melody), and what might have been an easy transition is, uhmm, not so much. Even though we're playing from sheet music, trying to shove 9 jigs, 3 polkas, 7 mazurkas and 3 tarantellas down my throat all at once has proven to be VERY daunting. I've come to realize that getting familiar with only 2 or 3 at a time is a better way to go.
OTOH, I can still pull up 90% of my college rock band's repertoir from the mid-60s, words and all. Must be that "repetition" somebody mentioned!
- Ed
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