3 Tricks to Remember Lyrics Easily!
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Start Lines 1:44
Rhyme 2:59
Story Format 3:23
Do you have trouble memorizing lyrics? I feel your pain. For a long time I really struggled with learning song lyrics, even when I had a performance coming up.
When I started performing more regularly, it was getting embarrassing to repeat the same verse several times so I began devising tricks to memorize song lyrics faster.
Nowadays, many of my students have a hard time “getting off-book” and memorizing lyrics or text so I thought I would share my tricks here. Ready? Here we go!
My tricks for memorizing lyrics twice as fast revolve around two concepts: start lines and creating a story.
1. Start lines—the starting line of a song is not necessarily always at the beginning. I am referring to the first line of the verses. Many songs start with a chorus that repeats and is the easiest part of the song to memoryize. Almost noone forgets the chorus so we can proceed right to memorizing the verse.
I would suggest memorizing only the first line of each verse at first.
In Bob Dylan’s Desolation Row for example, we have “They’re selling postcards of the hanging”, “Cinderella she seems so easy”, “Now the moon is almost hidden”, etc…
By memorizing the first line of each verse, you are packaging the song into manageable bites, making it that much easier to remember.
2. Creating a story. Like our first tip for memorizing start lines, this second tip is also designed to break the song into manageable pieces to remember.
In this case, I would recommend creating a story out of the lyrics. Luckily most songs are already built on stories. In which case you just have to remember what order things occur in.
The most typical story is “Boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl back”. This story or some variation of it can be found in 50% of popular music.
But what if you’re supposed to sing a 20 verse poetic song? Try your best to make a story out of your start lines. To go back to to Desolation Row for a moment, we could envision a postcard that Cinderella picks up before her trip to the moon. By picking the most striking image from each of the start lines, I have a clear story line for the lyrics to follow. This ensures that I will keep the lyrics in the right order.
