Yeah, thanks. Getting closer. Intentional practicing is helping. Concentrating on the songs I know least. I probably won’t have them all completely memorized but I’ll be good to go with the lead sheet for guide.
2025 Market Goals
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I’ve got about 33 songs for my core 2025 repertoire. I can supplement with other songs if I decide to do more than 2 hours. I’ve arranged most of them. I’m organizing many into medleys of 2, generally in the same key.
I will probably arrange Reginella Campagnola to go with La Molisana. Even though one is from Abruzzo and the other Molise. No one will know because Molise may not actually exist. È davvero Ric?
I have about half memorized. I have others memorized I can throw in if I have to (Beer Barrel
). My plan is to get them all so I can play them clean from the sheets by May 1. Then 3 weeks to memorize. Using the “Gebrian” and the “C’est Jeff” methods:
Pick one song from the unknowns. Identify a part or phrase that is problematic. Learn it, and determine fingering. Play it slowly, then to speed, getting to 5 times in a row correctly. Then, take a break, on to another song. Keep the mind fresh while working on multiple, avoiding that situation where you’ve worked too long and you’re flailing mindlessly. We all know what that’s like.
Then, once the song is known, it can enter the “spaced repetition” to firm it in memory.
Then keep on going with learning new songs so I’m not playing the same old shirt every week. Oh yeah, I gotta make new promotional stuff and do a few other summer type gigs. When’s a guy gonna have time to learn the fun stuff like articulation, speed, free bass, singing, green screen, composing? Too much fun, not enough time!!!!!
Meanwhile, check out this awesome rainbow. It’s like a lens in the sky.
Regarding Italian music once again as I go through my repertoire. You know, everyone around here thinks you have to play Tarantella and Finiculi. I played both last year but I’m ditching ‘em! You know, they just don’t flow like a Yankovic polka. I think I’m gonna do Non c’è Pace tra gli Ulivi instead. You can say anything about neo realist films of the 50s. They have their historical place in history don’tcha know. Anyway, I think it’s a more interesting song than those other two. Some people think the tarantella is best left to the organetto anyway, I don’t know. You can find the original film on YouTube.
Here’s the always wonderful Noemi Gigante playing her beautiful white and yellow byMarco (rest his soul) and what is this red one? Is it an Excelsior?
Here’s the always wonderful Noemi Gigante playing her beautiful white and yellow byMarco (rest his soul) and what is this red one? Is it an Excelsior?
….and here’s the sheets if you get a hankering to check it out…
Almost to the end of April. Gebrian method is going well. It’s actually an exercise in self awareness. It’s harder than you think to commit to getting 5 in a row successfully. and to concentrate on this task for an hour. It’s interesting to see how the mind wanders off track. I’ve got 3 weeks left to polish/memorize all the songs. Setting most up in sets of two or three, in similar keys and feel. Drawn to picking up some old songs I played long ago because they are more in mind than adding new melodies. A few fiddle tunes like Cripple Creek, Old Joe, Arkansas Traveler, like that.
