I know a lot of folks here love classic movies and vintage TV — is that you?
Me, too! If it’s in black and white and somebody’s wearing a hat, I’m in.
So, not too surprising when something like The Little Rascals theme song from the 1930s comes drifting through my head.
It’s a sweet and sentimental instrumental, and I had a vague memory of having looked up the music for this ages ago.
I went digging through my files, and, even better than already having it, I found that my External Ukulele Brain was already at work.
The original file included just the notes of the melody. But sometime in a dark forgotten past, I had pencilled in chord names, added a few diagrams and notes to myself.
Past-me had left a gift for present-me. The External Ukulele Brain was at work.
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This is nothing new, of course. When I buy vintage sheet music, very often there are notes scribbled in. (Favorite one: “play like mother” — I have no idea what that meant!)
We’ve got more advanced tools now — iPads, e-pens, and, perhaps most powerful of all, the yellow sticky.
Suggestion: whatever you figure out, leave it on the page. You think you’ll remember, but you WON’T! So imagine the thrill when you sit down to play and find all those breadcrumbs waiting. You don’t have to re-solve, re-figure, or even re-member — your External Ukulele Brain is doing all the work.
Focused on the fun,
Danno