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| I play all songs by memory, without sheet music |
   
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33 | 47.14% |
| I play most songs by memory, without sheet music |
  
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14 | 20.00% |
| I use sheet music for most songs |
  
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18 | 25.71% |
| I use sheet music for all songs |
  
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5 | 7.14% |
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#2
06-08-2015, 10:39 AM
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No
No, but that's how we (my wife and I) started out. We know 80-100 songs and never use cheat sheets - stopped about 2 years ago.
We do use them at home to learn new material as needed though.
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#3
06-08-2015, 10:41 AM
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Never.
Can't read music. 
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#6
06-08-2015, 11:22 AM
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Only once. I used printed out chords/lyrics for First Day of My Life by Bright Eyes when a buddy asked me to play it at his wedding. The only problem is that the wedding was on a rooftop in Manhattan and the page blew right off the music stand about three chord into the tune. Luckily, I knew the tune well enough that I was able to fake it. Haha.
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#7
06-08-2015, 11:26 AM
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What's sheet music?
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#8
06-08-2015, 12:02 PM
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As Bill suggests, burying your face in sheet music seriously interferes with connecting with your audience!
Plus, relying on sheets inhibits your memorization process, which again, inhibits your ability to connect with your audience.
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#9
06-08-2015, 12:16 PM
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Depends on the gig. Hear me out before you go up in smoke. Sometimes I play bass or guitar in a 30-piece brass and rhythm "orchestra," where we'll do maybe 20 songs in a 2-hour concert. Everybody's using sheet music! I have it in front of me, even though I don't need to look at it for the songs we've done a few times.
In another gig, I'm a solo performer on a stage with several hundred in the audience. The only time I'll use sheet music here is if I've been asked to do a special song without adequate preparation time. It happens occasionally, and when it does I'd rather use the printed music than tell the boss he should have told me earlier. Printed music is a tool. Wisdom is knowing which tool to use for which occasion, whether we're choosing between guitars, amplification, wardrobe or sheet music. cotten
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#10
06-08-2015, 12:17 PM
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Notation ?? No, never, can't read it.
Cheat sheets - YES. Lyrics printed as large as possible with chords over, and notes about intro/outro and who take s what break etc. BUT. I NEVER let my cheat sheets come between me and my audience. I prefer to stand to perform, and have a music stand with my stuff on at about trouser fly height, and just glance down from time to time. Why? Because I don't gig every day/week etc., and I have four different repertoires and some numbers are used with different sidemen so thwe arrangements are different.
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#11
06-08-2015, 01:16 PM
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I've never used sheet music or chord charts when I play out.
I do however, use a laptop for lyrics only. I have over 300 songs in my current rotation and another 200 that I have available if I get a request. Even so, the songs I do most and know the best I rarely use my laptop for, but it's there if I get a brain fart or get distracted. And I make a concerted effort to face the audience when I sing (I don't look at my guitar fingerboard, either), simple glancing my eyes downward briefly as I need to.
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#12
06-08-2015, 01:24 PM
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I play at an informal weekly gig. Most others bring tab sheets. My goal is to get the for or five tunes I play down so I needn't rely on tab sheets. I have found that reliance on a sheet keeps me from getting things down and when I rely on sheets or the iPad for tunes I invariably mess up something.
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#13
06-08-2015, 02:01 PM
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No sheet music for me. However, I write the set, with the song keys and special notes (like "Capo Third!") etc. on a piece of paper taped to the top of the guitar (use a blue painter's tape that won't leave residue). This is very, very common practice.
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#15
06-08-2015, 02:12 PM
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If you look at my binder, you'll find:
I can hear and remember chord progressions pretty well. As I get older and have more songs on the play list, my main issue is remembering the lyrics, especially things like the order of verses. I tend to mix & match lines from one verse with another, unless I use a cheat sheet. However, I do put the stand down low so I'm not hiding behind it. It bugs me when a performer hides their hands and / or guitar behind a binder so you cannot see them. And it really bothers me when someone keeps their head down staring at the page, instead of looking out to the audience. Kinda like reading your slides verbatim to me during a PowerPoint presentation.
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No issues connecting with audience.