6 Reasons You Keep Forgetting The Songs You Learn

6 Reasons You Keep Forgetting The Songs You Learn

In this tutorial, I show 6 fixes for songs vanishing after you learn them: coordinating hands, thinking in numbers not letters (Nashville system), internalizing the melody, counting beats/measures and harmonic rhythm with a metronome, ditching rigid classical habits for ear training and improvisation, and mapping form: intro, verse, chorus, bridge, by diatonic function, cadences, voicings, and a clean chord chart.

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CHAPTERS:
00:00 Introduction: Why Songs Don’t Stick
00:27 It’s Not a Practice Problem—It’s a Learning Problem
01:16 Problem #1 – Hands Working in Isolation
05:34 Problem #2 – Thinking of Chords Only as Letters
09:02 Problem #3 – Not Knowing or Internalizing the Melody
12:42 Problem #4 – Ignoring Beats, Measures, and Harmonic Rhythm
17:20 Problem #5 – Using Classical Reading Habits to Play by Ear
20:46 Problem #6 – Missing the Big Picture (Form and Structure)
25:53 Final Thoughts and Resources