Practice Tip: Repertoire Retention Day

Take one day a week to play all the songs (that you like) that you’ve studied so far. This helps you to: not lose the ability to play songs that you’ve worked hard to learn; be confident when performing (whether with a band or when someone asks you to play for them); keep fluent with the licks within your songs (this is the vocabulary that you use for improvising). Your goal is to play along to the original track with a high degree of accuracy, then move to playing with a jam track (ultimately without the sheet music).