I finished all of Grade 1 at the end of January except memorizing 5 songs. Took me 2 months (I have 2 years experience but was all over the map in what I was learning, so not really a 2 year guy). I’ve memorized only 1 song so far. I can play them all fine, but keep referring the lead sheets. I am close to memorizing 2 more.
I spend almost all of my practices playing these 5 songs. Sometimes I’ll do chord changes, strumming, etc. but not much since they’re decent.
I want to start grade 2 but I’ll have to practice songs that have new chords. I feel like I will never memorize my grade 1 songs if I do this.
If I practice only 1-2 songs progress goes fast, but I won’t practice all my songs. If I practice all of them in one day it will take too long. If I practice all of them on different days, progress will be slow.
I have other songs too, like Come As You Are and Paranoid, but I haven’t been practicing those much. So, these are falling by the wayside too.
What is the solution? Every way to do this has its downsides.
Any advice appreciated.