Great Balls of Fire: Part 2 – Jerry Lee Lewis
Hey David,
I’ve been playing that at my dueling piano job for about a year now. It took me like 2-3 weeks to memorize it to where I could play it in front of the audience well… but then the other players told me I was still making mistakes. (Keep in mind that I was getting paid to perform, so I had more motivation to practice each day). I still need to whip out a lyric sheet for songs when I first play them.
The hardest part for me was getting the words right every time, even though I had probably already recited them 100’s of times. The secret is just more practice. Make sure to do it correctly and slowly each time until you can do it fast without a mistake. It gets easy after you do it enough.
Also the boogie pattern is good to practice on a bunch of chords, not just C, F and G. That way you’ll be ready for rock songs in any key!
Everyone learns songs at about the same pace. But all the practice you do for great balls of fire will pay off greatly for other songs in the future… Meaning you’ll learn the next song slightly faster.
I have some more paid requests to catch up on and then I’m going to try and add a bunch of special videos to the chords 101 course to really show some great tips on applying each of the pages in there. It’ll be fun!
Keep up the good work David!
Post a video or recording of yourself when you learn the song!
Chris Marx
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