How To Memorize The Lyrics Of Any Song
This is a method that will allow you to memorize the lyrics of any song you want to learn! And most importantly… to never forget them!
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Watch the video for a detailed explanation with examples!
Today I want to show you a method to memorize your lyrics.
Memorizing lyrics is a crucial part of being a singer! There are many reasons why you can’t always depend on reading the lyrics.
The first one is that you can’t express yourself fully when you are staring at a page. It can be very tempting to do so because It can be felt ‘safer’, but your expression ends in the paper if you are looking at it, rather than being expressed to the whole audience.
The second reason is that when you are looking at the lyrics from a page or your phone, there are muscles in your neck that are engaging, and they ruin your technique! It’s important to not fixate the eyes on one piece of paper but to be able to have a soft gaze and be able to look around and be curious about what’s around you when you sing.
Memorizing Lyrics Easily: Step by Step
Step 1 and 2: choose your song and focus on the first part!
Step one: choose a song that you want to memorize. For this exercise choose a song that you know quite well because the reality is that we try to learn songs that we think we know really well and then turns out we don’t. We forget them and that really gets on the way of us really expressing ourselves.
Today, we are going to just take the first part of a song.
Usually, the first part of the song is at the end of the first chorus, but there are different structures, some songs don’t even have a chorus, but normally they will have a verse, which is divided usually in two parts, and the chorus, so we’re going to work with that today.
Step 3: What is every section about?
Step three. Once you have chosen your song and you isolated the different sections of it, think: what is every section about?
More often than not, singers, don’t even know what their songs are about! And that is a big problem, not only because it makes it much harder to isolate and to learn, but also because we are communicators, and if you don’t know what you are communicating, there is no message.
You might be able to sing very nicely, but there is no connection, and music is about connection and communication.
So this is my interpretation, but you’re going to have a different one. So I invite you to take a look at what I wrote, but you might have a different idea, write your own version.
Step 4: Visualize the story step by step
Step four, now we are going to visualize the story. This is the part that is really useful and that helps you remember the lyrics.
You must visualize in the order that you are singing. That is what is going to start triggering your lyrics. Of course, as I said before, we are working with a song that we already know, not a completely new song.
Visualization is, of course, very personal. And you’re going to see that your visualization, really depends on your story, and the stories you have lived! That is going to shape what you imagine.
Step 5: Word Trigger
Step 5. word trigger.
Now memorize one word of each line, the first word. If you have done all the previous steps and you are using a song that you already sing or are very familiar with, remembering just the first word of every line will trigger the rest of the line easily.
With this method, you will learn your lyrics deeply (not just throwing out words with no meaning), and never forget them again.
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