Thursday 23 October 2008

Recalling tunes...

In trad it is vitally important to be able to hear tunes in your inner ear at will. As music has no words attached recall becomes a little tricky unless you learn the title - words act as our labels for recall and association. You need a conscious tag for the unconscious memory.

If you can tag your tune, then you can also organise your tunes, this assists with recall too.
However there is always the great folky saying:

"If you know all the names of the tunes you know you don't know enough tunes"

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