Uh, oh, we have a good one up here. Could you guys share some tips? This is from Yao Ming. What's up, Yao?

Could you guys share some tips for memorizing the melody and changes of standards?

Totally.

So memorizing the melody and changes of standards is about, I think it's about listening more than anything.

You have to listen to the point where when you don't play it correctly, you notice, right?

So you listen and you know the version that you love and hopefully you're in an accurate-ish version

from a reputable source. And you know it so well. And you know how the baseline moves and you know

how the chord should sound and you know how the melody, the rhythm and the melody is that if you go to play it and you play it wrong, you know it's wrong.

Yeah.

And then you can work it out.

That is the best way.

You know, we were talking about sight reading and why you would do it, but it's the same thing with like learning a tune.

Go to the audio first.

It is harder. It's going to suck. Embrace the suck of it being a little bit harder. Right. Because you're going to get better. You're going to be a better musician. And you don't need to read to do that. Absolutely. And I think you kind of hit the nail in the head when you said, I didn't hear you say anything about memorizing. I know the question was memorizing. but I think that's the key. It's like, let's not think, let's think about it as learning, learning as opposed to memorizing because, I mean, yeah, I guess you are memorizing, but the more you learn it away from the page, if you need to reference the page, no problem, If you're playing it from the page, you want to get your head out of that page as quickly as possible and be able to hear what's going on and listen and be able to memorize it, I guess, or learn it.

I don't know.

What would be the difference between memorizing and learning?

No difference, I think.

I just feel like when you say learning, it makes it more intuitive, it makes it more kind of an organic flow with it. But here's the thing, though, if you learn it from the audio, how do you not memorize it? You have to memorize it. Like, if you learn it by reading it. The memorization is built in there. The memorization is built in. And that's why, and it locks in longer and stronger. It's way different than reading, which we're used to just using text and, and music notation is a form of text, you know, and you're used to using that and letting it go, right? But audio, when we learn it, we have to learn it. We have to memorize it in order to go back, right? You have to be able to play it in your mind's ear over and over again. So I think it's really, really crucial. Yep. So, and then another thing, if you're on piano or, I mean, whether you're pianist or not, you could go to piano, a thing for really learning a standard tune, because I think the question was specifically about standard,

is like to take two essential elements, because that's, I mean, you can take one, certainly,

and like learn, like so if we did on Green Dolphin Street, just the melody, you certainly could learn it from that, but I think you can jump into two things

as you're learning it.

Would be the root,

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