Memorizing Music Lyrics

That's right, it shouldn't be completely random, it Should make some sense to you.

But it's supposed to be moving pictures because that's easier for the mind to remeber. And crazy illogical pictures also 'sticks' easier in your memory.

The most important thing is to have very vivid clear pictures with very much detail though...

[Daliman]

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

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This is good advice. Actually reading the words, even if you can make out what they are, helps imprint the lyrics with the music.

Also, some songs just lend themselves to memorization easier. I'm pretty good with memorizing songs anyways, but I memorized "Add it up" by the Violent femmes, which SEEMS like a very complicated song to remember, in about 3 hours. The more I thought about it though, it just seems like the words string together well in that particular case.

[istewart]

It always sucks when you spend months singing a song a certain way and it turns out you knew none of the lyrics.

[Daliman]

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It always sucks when you spend months singing a song a certain way and it turns out you knew none of the lyrics.

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But it's great when you hear someone else singing a song with the wrong words with TOTAL conviction, even though the words they transpose make no sense, and they don;t believe you when you tell them the real words, such as my friends ex-girlfriend and her sister signing along to "The Freshman" by the verve pipe, "..For the life of me, I cannot believe we ever died, forty cents , we were merely freshmen.. [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

[bogey]

dont waste any valuable neurons on this worthless exercise

[EliteNinja]

I don't know what it is about memorizing lyrics.
For me I can listen to a song hundreds of times and still not remember all the lyrics.

If I need to memorize the lyrics to something. I have to print/write out the lyrics and then memorize them line by line.

I play the guitar and it's sad that I suck at memorizing lyrics.

[turnipmonster]

keep in mind people memorize things in different ways. some people are visual learners and some are primarily auditory learners.

[VBM]

eh, dont' worry so much about getting them right. if you don't know the right words, just fill in what sounds good to you. it's not for anyone else or anything...sing for yourself, have fun with it, don't worry too much about stuff that doesn't matter...

[Eurotrash]

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But it's great when you hear someone else singing a song with the wrong words with TOTAL conviction, even though the words they transpose make no sense, and they don;t believe you when you tell them the real words, such as my friends ex-girlfriend and her sister signing along to "The Freshman" by the verve pipe, "..For the life of me, I cannot believe we ever died, forty cents , we were merely freshmen.. [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

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heh, this is actually one of my favorite things in a "looking back and laughing at it" sense... hearing the lyrics one way and then realizing they're totally wrong. A friend of mine would get a good laugh out of seeing this post in particular though -- this song was one of our favorites, and we always thought the line was

"...we'd never doubt forty cents,"

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[Dr. Strangelove]

For me there is a difference between memorizing a song to the extent that I can sing along with it when it comes on the radio, and memorizing it such that I can sing it by myself. The first comes naturally for me. To accomplish the second I get the lyrics and read over them a couple times, sing while reading them, sing without the lyrics. Repeat until I make no mistakes, then every once in a while repeat the whole thing in your head so it remains in the long term memory. This also works for poetry, speeches, and 3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197169399375 10
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