Memorizing Music Lyrics

theBruiser500 · #1 04-10-2005, 04:52 PM

i like to sing songs to myself like Yesterday, Build me up BUttercup Baby, Hey Jude, etc. i can never remember the lyrics though, i can remember just a few lines even though i listen to these same songs just over and over again on my computer. any tips for how i can memorize these lyrics so i can sing it to myself?

InchoateHand · #2 04-10-2005, 04:53 PM

Sing along with the music until it just gets deep enough in your head. If you want to [censored] with the track, build your own karaoke tracks too.

In all seriousness, I suggest getting incarcerated. There was a point in my life when I had no music (I like music), and I was able to build a library of hundreds of songs by diligently writing down more words everytime I remembered them. Upon release, I found that I had altered them, but I liked the alterations and the originals sucked.

istewart · #3 04-10-2005, 04:54 PM

Just listen to the song on repeat. Or Google.

PoBoy321 · #4 04-10-2005, 04:54 PM

Practice, practice, practice. If you just keep singing the songs to yourself, you'll remember them eventually.

theBruiser500 · #5 04-10-2005, 04:55 PM

that's the thing i do listen to these songs nonstop, i just keep playing the same songs over and over again but i never retain the lyrics. there is only one song i know (yesterda)

InchoateHand · #6 04-10-2005, 04:55 PM

all my troubles seemed so far away...oh I believe in....

InchoateHand · #7 04-10-2005, 04:56 PM

Another alternative---hang out with Indonesians. They are all about breaking out the guitar and singing along to the entire Simon and Garfunkel/Beatles song book.

Jack of Arcades · #8 04-10-2005, 04:56 PM

sing the song while reading the lyrics and listening to it. that way you get the lyrics three ways.

wacki · #9 04-10-2005, 04:56 PM

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i can never remember the lyrics though, i can remember just a few lines even though i listen to these same songs just over and over again on my computer.

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I have the same problem. By the same token I know this woman that is as dumb as a doorknob that has every song on the radio memorized. I think this just show you the vast difference in information processing. Cognitive vs. absorb and spit back information type of brains.

theBruiser500 · #10 04-10-2005, 04:57 PM

heh.. what is "cognitive vs. absorb" mean?