Last night's class had a totally different format! For those of you that missed it....Dave formed groups out of the class, assigned us numbers (for the order to perform) and then called group 1 to go up and play a song he picked....Yes, that's right....no practicing....he gave each group about 30 seconds to get started and that was that. Then each group swam or sank. And I LIKED IT! No, I'm not a glutton for punishment, but with this format I realized that I have to know not just the leads, but the chords that go with the songs. I have a pretty good memory so if given time to practice I can remember what chords to play as back up...but when I have to start cold turkey....I'm not good at that....so this has given me something to work on. We "performed" 3 times last night...twice without rehearsing and although I didn't play as well as I would've liked....I left feeling pretty good. But boy! Do I have work ahead of me...
And I certainly have to learn the names of the songs!