Curtis E. Flush
Junior Member
Hi there. I mostly lurk.
I got a new gig playing for a local Irish/Celtic punk band (think Pogues, Flogging Molly, Dropkick Murphy's, et al). Anyway I have 40 or so songs to learn in a month. Doesn't sound to bad right? Complicating matters though is the fact that I have a job that has me working lots of hours and a family that I can't really abandon on weekends lol.
I already know about 15 of them from the audition so we're actually talking about 25 songs.
A lot of these songs are similar to each other. Paddy shuffle, medium fast punk beats, quarter note kick drum during the Irish shout breaks lol. You get the idea.
I'm thinking I'll take a few of them at a time per practice session. Work one song to death, make small notes that I can take to gigs, etc. then at the end of the practice session see if I can play through all 5. Then do the same thing with another group of songs.
So this isn't some insurmountable task but I was wondering if any of you guys have had to learn a lot of songs in a short amount of time and how you went about it?
Thanks.
I got a new gig playing for a local Irish/Celtic punk band (think Pogues, Flogging Molly, Dropkick Murphy's, et al). Anyway I have 40 or so songs to learn in a month. Doesn't sound to bad right? Complicating matters though is the fact that I have a job that has me working lots of hours and a family that I can't really abandon on weekends lol.
I already know about 15 of them from the audition so we're actually talking about 25 songs.
A lot of these songs are similar to each other. Paddy shuffle, medium fast punk beats, quarter note kick drum during the Irish shout breaks lol. You get the idea.
I'm thinking I'll take a few of them at a time per practice session. Work one song to death, make small notes that I can take to gigs, etc. then at the end of the practice session see if I can play through all 5. Then do the same thing with another group of songs.
So this isn't some insurmountable task but I was wondering if any of you guys have had to learn a lot of songs in a short amount of time and how you went about it?
Thanks.