Brain fade?

[anaxcrosswords]

Don’t think I’m doing any dep work until December, but it’s been about 2 months since I last rehearsed or gigged so I thought it wise to pick up the set list and run through it.
Bear in mind this material is 5 years’ worth of pretty much weekly playing (plus rehearsals) I’m shocked at how much of it I struggle to remember.

Do I have accelerated brain fade or is it quite common to quickly forget your lines?

[Iain]

I can forget lines between run-throughs in one night so you're not alone!

First practice in a month with my main band (summer hols!) and it was just a few of the newer songs in the set I was struggling with but that's down to not playing them since the last gig. I tend not to beat myself up about it though.

[seashell]

Sometimes I feel as though my brain can only hold about 20 tunes at any one time. As soon as I learn a new song , one of the old ones seems to drop out of my head!!
The only consolation is that it's much quicker to refresh your memory for a previously learned song rather than learn one from scratch.

[Marvin]

I've not played in nearly 6 months. I couldn't play a single thing from the last band I was in or the 3 or 4 before that.

[discreet]

I don't understand the question.

[JapanAxe]

Is the coach here yet?

[BassTractor]

IME it also depends on the material.
For example, I could still play large parts of certain organ pieces that I last visited more than 30 years ago. I just ran through a few of them in my head to find out, and it confirmed this.
However, I would not at all be able to play any part of later band material, bands where I've predominantly played keyboards, plus a few gigs on bass.

This leads me to believe that higher complexity (also meaning more time spent learning it) is a pre in this.
Not science. Just my experience.

[ambient]

I forget stuff until I get the chart out, and start to play it, then it tends to come back.

Sometimes if you don't try and remember, just play, maybe along with a recording, then it'll just come back.

[discreet]

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I forget stuff until I get the chart out.
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What's a chart?

[quote name='ambient' timestamp='1439816045' post='2845966']
Sometimes if you don't try and remember, just play, maybe along with a recording, then it'll just come back.
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That's what I do. I can't be doing with bits of paper and so forth.

[KevB]

Not played anything from band's set since last gig on Aug 7th,they've just pulled a rehearsal out for tonight with no warning and I fully expect to be really dodgy on a lot of the set though I think we are going to work on some new stuff in which case we'll all be a bit flakey anyway.

Edited August 17, 2015 by KevB

[discreet]

[quote name='BassTractor' timestamp='1439665948' post='2844862']
I could still play large parts of certain organ pieces that I last visited more than 30 years ago.
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I find a sentence containing the words 'large parts', 'organ' and 'thirty years ago' quite depressing.

[BassTractor]

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I find a sentence containing the words 'large parts', 'organ' and 'thirty years ago' quite depressing.
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...and that's after I rephrased before posting, specifically so as to make it slightly more demanding for you to comment - something you of course did with ease anyway. Kudos!

Edited August 17, 2015 by BassTractor

[Phil Starr]

You've no idea how reassuring this is guys.

Funnily enough I asked this on a guitar forum and they remember everything, forever, never make a mistake

Edited August 17, 2015 by Phil Starr

[discreet]

[quote name='BassTractor' timestamp='1439847780' post='2846277']
...and that's after I rephrased before posting, specifically so as to make it slightly more demanding for you to comment - something you of course did with ease anyway. Kudos!
[/quote]

Well thanks... I wouldn't want to disappoint.

[discreet]

[quote name='Phil Starr' timestamp='1439848402' post='2846284']
Funnily enough I asked this on a guitar forum and they remember everything, forever, never make a mistake
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How can you forget something if you don't learn it in the first place?

[seashell]

I was going to make another point, but I've forgotten what it was now.

[discreet]

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I was going to make another point, but I've forgotten what it was now.
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Haha, that's typical of you, er, er... whatsyername... thingy. Sea-salt... Shellfish...

Edited August 18, 2015 by discreet