Forgotten lyrics

[Jevil]

Until last year I was a happy guitarist and backing vocalist that only had to remember some choruses and few lyrics.
Last year I became "singer2 and guitarist, and it iss fucking dificult to remember lyrics on stage due to beer, guitar concentration, nerves...
Sometimes my mind gets blank and forget a sentence or two...
I can sing lyrics without a problem at home, but on stage is quite different.

How do you manage to avoid this?

I'm thinking about a portable computer in front of my mic camouflaged somehow...

 

[Morgan C]

Teleprompter? ;p

Or you can do what a friend of mine did.. one chorus of a song was just a bunch of words that didn't really mean anything. So he just picked 2 words and sang them over and over again. I think once he even forgot one of those words and so just sang "somethiiiiiing".

 

[El_Gato]

In your setlist, for every song, write down the first word of each verse you have problems to remember. Yo'll have no more than 5 diff verses, so 5 little words next to each song title. Mnemonic tricks

 

[Jevil]

Teleprompter are expensive, that's why i thought about a portable computer.

Gato, I'd need a paper of 2 metres to write down all the words from verses or a very tiny writting for which i'd need an eagle eye!

 

[El_Gato]

That's because you play gtr too, if you were only singing, you could grab the lyrics hahah, omg how much I hate that

or get one of this and place it at the back of the venue

 

[Mago]

How do you manage to avoid this?

I only growl since my GF does the clean vocals now.
even had gigs were i was going "blablagrowlsaraaaa" for a whole verse.
Nobody recognized

 

[Line666]

I only growl since my GF does the clean vocals now.
even had gigs were i was going "blablagrowlsaraaaa" for a whole verse.
Nobody recognized

I have actually done this as well with the same result

 

[Mago]

I have actually done this as well with the same result

haha

one time i forgot to get the lyrics done for a bridge or something, and planned to do that blalba again.
unfortunately i and every other one of my bandmates started laughing^^
was funny though

 

[Lionwing]

In one of my first bands, the singer never wrote any lyrics to our songs. On the night of our first gig, he still hadn't got a single word as he was practising the covers we were playing more. He ended up being really nervous and scribbling down some random things (whilst having a nerve-induced shit in the venue), which he forgot anyway and ended up just doing the RARRR RARRRR BRRRAAAOUUUGHH thing for 5 whole songs, no-one noticed and all thought he was awesome!

Whereas I fucked up a solo a little and got people shaking their heads!! Pays to go full vocalist, man!

 

[Jevil]

Those blabla, and rooarroogggg. are ok if vocals are screams or you speak in english and the country is not english tongued.
But this is a band which lyrics are very important and people know them all. Any small piece of mistake is the lyrics and people will notice it.

Perhaps I should stop singing when my mind gets blank and let the audience sing.

 

[JayB]

Buy Brain Age for the Nintendo DS lol. It fuckin works for memory !