Preparing

I am trying to learn SEVERAL new songs for this popup shop and food truck venue for Stampede.
The problem is that I like to write out the lyrics and chords into a notebook, then photocopy them, put them in page sleeves, and in binders alaphabetically. Rather than typing or printing songs, I learn better and memorize more easily when I write it out myself.
I also like having it in two places - a photocopy and in an original notebook - in case one gets lost.
Then, once I write out the chords I find on my go-to website, I then have to check the chords (because there is almost always at least one incorrect chord online). So I find them, write them, check them, fix them, transpose them, write the correct chords, photocopy, listen to them, practice them, and then perform them.
The learning and memorizing takes the shortest amount of time - but I really enjoy fixing chords and transposing them.

I, of course, have several songs that have incorrect chords. Perhaps I have the correct key but not the position or maybe there is a suspended 4th or 2nd that I miss, or I don't catch the bass being on the 3rd or 5th of a triad... but I listen and attempt to get it as close as I can (also hindered by having one instrument).

The tedious photocopying and the severe arthritic pain from writing out lyrics can get cumbersome.... but I love the rest of it.
My only wish is that my physical body would allow me to do this every single day. Hours and hours of music every day - whether it is listening to cover songs to help me learn them, writing new original music, or everything I have mentioned above.

Then again, if I were healthier I would also be doing fifteen other things, so music may only have this amount of devotion at any given time anyways.

Either way - I LOVE IT!!

With the new country cover songs, playing The Entertainer randomly as a break, or maybe trying to remember all of the Game of Thrones theme song, or just doing scales, music is my life. I love it.
I love #MyMusicalLife