Remembering song lyrics

[frankie]

Music stands on stage is a no no.Even worse when someone is flicking thru a book between songs. A friend of mine used an old fold back without the speaker and fitted an extension lap top screen in it.Lyrics displayed in a large font.

[cp70b]

I use Cakewalk on a tablet laptop. You can embed the lyrics IN the midifile, they scan WITH the song, can open the lyrics page with a macro key I set up. The beauty is, the lyrics are THERE and always available, I've been using some files for 20 years, words are RIGHT there when I ask for them.. If you don't have this system, a psychotherapist friend told me that people look up to the right or the left... can't remember which... think it's the right... when trying to remember. So he said to stick a sheet of paper on the wall ABOVE you, to the right.... write the lyrics on it, tear it up and do it over again and again, then when performing, think up to the right and you should SEE the lyrics and call them to mind. Worth a try??
(the good thing about the laptop lyrics, as you get older and the eyes go a little more, just enlarge the font.... SIMPLES! )

[eddie3fingers]

I found that one sure way, was to get a copy of the song, and listen over and over while typing it out. By the time I was finished I found that I didn't need the words I typed... (but I keep them for when I do need them...lol)

Frankie... I've been having a music stand on stage for 30 years "flicking" as you call it , and have "Never" had a problem or complaint and I play 5 nights a week....solo , duo, trio and complete 5 - 7 pc band.

[Tommydee]

Hi Eddiie people are are all different some can memorize the lyrics very quickly others must have time for them to sink in and then again some it never sinks in they must have the lyrics in front of them by the way why don't you introduce yourself and let us know a little about you

Tommy

[weeo]

I've been using an I pad with "Onsong " Plays all my tracks and the lyrics scroll as well. In the days of the bands I remembered everything , Words, chords, guitar solos,harmonies etc etc. now I'm solo I have around 200 songs to remember and although I do remember most there is always one that the words or chords doesn't spring to mind as quickly as it used to.
Just another sign of "getting on a bit ".

Eddie

PS Tommy --who is Timmy---- or was that another senior moment lol

[Tommydee]

Sorry Eddie sorted
Tommy

[eddie3fingers]

Hi, Gang
I'm Eddie I am 61 years old and I have been playing and singing professionally for about 40 years.. I started singing at the age of 5 and I started playing clarinet and sax at the age of 8 and those were my main instruments through high school.
In 1980 I had an accident and lost the ring and pinky finger of my right hand (hence Eddie 3 Fingers lol) so I started playing rhythm guitar (not great but enough to get by)until 1988 when I discovered midi. From that day on I mostly switched to keyboard and have ever since. [along with being a musician and playing a minimum of 4 nights a week, I also had and or worked for construction companies during the day building homes and apartment complexes] I have been married for 41 years and have one son who is one of the best guitar players I ever heard and he played with me on stage since he was 12.... He is a Doctor of Computer Science and Engineering and currently works in Ireland.
So there is my introduction...!
Thanks for adding me to the group !
Eddie

[Jacqui]

Well I sang a whole song yesterday all the wrong words, I meant to play a song I knew well Get Right Back To Where We Started from, and put on Get Along Without You Now, which I would need words for as I've only sang it a couple of times years ago, the funny thing was I only realised it was a different song half way through, when I got all the lyrics wrong but I made up loads of words to fit and I don't think anyone noticed, they all clapped anyway unless they were deaf and just being polite lol

[frankie]

Mine are key words in Braille tattooed along my arms,people think it is freckles.

[oliver101]

I know I started his thread years ago, but I have just invested in a tablet, and have put an app on it called 'Lyric Pad'. Although I use midi files with lyrics embedded in them, I like to keep the player on the side of me rather than in front, so I can't keep turning my head by 90 degrees to check the words.

The tablet attaches to the mike stand and works well. I control it by a footswitch called a 'Donner bluetooth footswitch'. I invested in this system as I have recently had to learn over 2 hours of new material in a very short space of time for a new project. It has been used 'in anger' a few times now, and works very well.

[Stephanie M]

I play piano for a seniors' choir and hate hauling around a big huge binder. I use an iPad with a wonderful app called Forscore. It's essentially a PDF viewer with a lot of music-oriented extras like autoturn (optional time-based page turning), annotation features, setlists, libraries and a whole lot more. It works well for displaying lyrics-only pages as well as sheet music. It supports a number of page-turning foot pedals including the Donner mentioned by Oliver. The pedals are nice because I don't always have a hand free to tap the screen to turn the page.