Forgetting the Details

[absintheur]

I've noticed an increase in what is essentially a bad habit: I'm forgetting the things I've written. In one way, it isn't so bad as it's been before - there have been times when music I've been involved in actually playing and recording has been played back for me and I've had no memory of any of it. Now, I remember having written something. I will even remember what it sounds like, more or less. But I will not remember how to play it. I have to pick it out anew like it's someone else's composition. The good news is that most of it seems to come back readily enough if I pay it enough attention; at least, that's been the most recent development. Still, though. I feel like if I compose something I should remember its every nuance for ever, particularly if it happens to be for an instrument I can play myself, and it irks me when it doesn't work out that way.

Writing a lot, in other news. I've really been enjoying open G tuning on the acoustic guitar.