[Harp-L] How to easily memorize Songs/Licks?

[Tom Halchak]

It took me a while to realize that the music that comes out of you is the
music that is inside you.  I was classically trained on the clarinet so
when I started playing the harmomica, I was able to easily play the
classical music I had ingrained in my brain from having played it for so
many years.  I was able to play pretty much any tune - folk music, campfire
songs, etc. - that I knew "by heart".  When I discovered blues music I
struggled because I was trying to memorize licks instead of making music.
It wasn't until I internalized the music by humming the songs or whistling,
as some have suggested, that I was able to make playing it on the harmonica
second nature.  It goes without saying that you have to know your way
around the harmonica but I have never had a problem with that.  I have
never used tabs.  I play strictly by ear.  I can read a piece of music and
hum the song to myself and then transfer that to the harmonica but I cannot
transpose sheet music to the matching notes on a harmonica.  Tabs confuse
me.  I guess they help a lot of people but to me it is like painting by
numbers.

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*Tom Halchak*
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