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Learning a lot of new songs!

This week I learned a bunch of new songs.  Or at least my part of the song!  Here’s what I’ve learned:

  1. Lady Bird
  2. Round Midnight
  3. Signed, sealed and delivered
  4. Summer rain
  5. It never rains in SoCa
  6. Where I wanna be
  7. I love you more than you’ll ever know
  8. Sweet Love
  9. Feel like making love
  10. 3 originals
  11. Waiting in vain
  12. So much trouble in the world

I think I learned some more songs but I can’t remember which ones.  That is sort of ironic considering I should be remembering the songs I learned!

I recently wrote a post about learning jazz songs.  Here’s what I did to learn the R&B songs (well learn them decently).

  1. Listen to the recording
  2. Figured out keys and any modulations
  3. Listened to the basslines
  4. Used transcribe to slow down the parts I couldn’t figure out
  5. For Signed, sealed and delivered, sweet love and feel like making love I downloaded the sheet music from sheetmusicdirect.com
  6. Played along with the recording, looking at the music

I still have a lot to learn for these songs but I definitely have made some headway.  I actually am going to practice a bunch up pretty soon here!