I hear you. Sometimes people really forget that stuff. To me, that stuff should be fairly easy to remember, or those people probably aren't cut out for it. I mean, there's fairly well known bands that have members in different towns, yet they get together and they can remember the songs no problem, or with a minimum of refreshment. One of my issues about being in various bands throughout the years is trying to ascertain how much time to put in with working with specific people, before it's apparent that they're just not cut out for it. You can ultimately spend alot of time showing guys riffs and song parts, only to have them forget it completely the next week or be badly out of tune or whatever. Some guys are really enthusiastic about the material, but it's--like you say--they press reset on themselves only to make the next jam frustrating in having to re-learn things. One guy that i'd worked with would need to listen to the recordings, minus everything but the drums--I did that for his own requests in the beginning, but after awhile, he was forgetting things and rehearsing to the song in a different key, and walking up with his own version that was completely different than the actual recorded song. I'm not sure if there's any real way to overcome that.....some players just naturally have their own deficiencies and i'm not really sure if more practice is the answer. There's always a certain level of compromise that's involved, but it depends on what level of compromise can be mutually agreed on.....i've never been one to shy away from a beer or three during a jam, but some guys would get pretty hammered or stoned out of their skull, and they didn't remember things the next jam.
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