Also, I joined a small Scottish fiddle group last month who are doing a concert in early June and who would like me to play at it. We meet once a week. For the concert, there's a list of about 17 tunes that I have to learn. The tunes aren't difficult but they are new to me (some of them I`m somewhat familiar with).
For me, memorization is the only way that I can even attempt to play tunes up to speed (although I can read music, I can only do so at a slow tempo). For now, I've put the tunes into MuseScore so that I can play them back to get a feel for how they sound and get them into my head. I can also slow them down enough to follow along while sight reading.
Did I bite off more than I can chew? Any thoughts on how to go about
learning, getting up to speed, and retaining roughly a tune every day or
two (I do have lots of time to practice)?
Dave
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Posted: April 27, 2012 Last Comment: May 18, 2012