How To Learn A Song Quickly
When you keep singing a song over and over but it feels like it takes a long time to learn, it can feel frustrating. If you are short on time and have multiple songs to learn, this can also feel overwhelming. There is an easy solution to making learning the songs you need and want to learn now more manageable.
Step 1: Break it up
Most songs are written in the following format:
Verse 1—Chorus—Verse 2—Chorus—Bridge—Chorus
When you continue to sing the whole song at once over and over, if is a lot for your brain to digest at once. In the song format above, there are six sections. Processing all six every time will make it difficult and time consuming to remember it all.
If you take out the duplicate sections, you only have:
verse 1, verse 2, chorus, bridge
Also, the melodies in the 2 verses are generally the same, so the only thing that changes in the verses is the words. Once you look at it this way, it is already less overwhelming.
Verse 1—Chorus—Verse 2—Chorus—Bridge—Chorus
When you continue to sing the whole song at once over and over, if is a lot for your brain to digest at once. In the song format above, there are six sections. Processing all six every time will make it difficult and time consuming to remember it all.
If you take out the duplicate sections, you only have:
verse 1, verse 2, chorus, bridge
Also, the melodies in the 2 verses are generally the same, so the only thing that changes in the verses is the words. Once you look at it this way, it is already less overwhelming.
Step 2: Narrow it down
Choose one section of the song to work on each time you practice. For example, start with verse one on day one, and sing it several times. It is highly likely that after 1-3 days or practice sessions of doing so, you will know the verse.
A logical next step would be to sing the second verse several times, in which you likely only need to learn new words. If the melody is varied, it is usually only slightly varied. This will come quickly as well.
On the next day or next practice session, sing the chorus several times. As with the verse, after 1-3 days or sessions of doing so, you will know it well. Fortunately, once you know the chorus, you now know half the entire song in a 6 section song with three choruses.
Follow the same strategy with the bridge, and you will be familiar with it too.
A logical next step would be to sing the second verse several times, in which you likely only need to learn new words. If the melody is varied, it is usually only slightly varied. This will come quickly as well.
On the next day or next practice session, sing the chorus several times. As with the verse, after 1-3 days or sessions of doing so, you will know it well. Fortunately, once you know the chorus, you now know half the entire song in a 6 section song with three choruses.
Follow the same strategy with the bridge, and you will be familiar with it too.
Step 3: Put it together
Once you have done the song section by section as described above, it will be far easier to take the song as a whole and rehearse it in the way you would like to perform it. It will be much more easily memorized (if not memorized already), and you can move on to the next song or ad emotion/stage presence practice to the song you can now remember with surety.
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