Anyone occasionally get "ICHS"?

lowenduser · #1 04-27-2007, 03:06 AM

Was at a rehearsal last night and got a bad case of ICHS.....Insert Chorus Here Syndrome - you know when, no matter how much you've rehearsed a song, practiced and twigged fills and the likes at home, you turn up at rehearsals, and take a complete blank - but on not an entire song - just the chorus (it rarely happens during a verse or bridge section, but maybe that's just my form of the syndrome). Happened me last night on one song - ended up just letting it go till I sat down again on my own with the song.... crossed my arms at chorus, and shouted "Insert Chorus Here".

The rest of the band appeared sympathetic to my plight!

**Rune Bivrin** · #2 04-27-2007, 04:39 AM

My variety is CRAB: Can't Remember Any Beginnings. Happens a lot. I can tell you it's bound to get worse, particularly if you've got a number of songs that are quite similar.

JacoLesFlea · #3 04-27-2007, 04:55 AM

Is this where being able to improvise would come in handy? I have seen bassists and guitarists break strings in the middle of a solo and keep going. I may be off base here but what you rehearse may not come off that way on stage....sometimes improv on stage will surprise you with that little lick or scale run that adds new life to the song and gives you more confidence.

Lazylion · #4 04-27-2007, 09:33 AM

I'm much more prone to CRAB than I am to ICHS. The chorus is what I'm most likely to remember!

leftyforlife · #5 04-27-2007, 09:43 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lazylion

I'm much more prone to CRAB than I am to ICHS. The chorus is what I'm most likely to remember!

+1,
if all else fails, i just try to follow what the guitard plays

Phalex · #6 04-27-2007, 09:50 AM

I've never had ICHS. I have experienced CRAB, and perhaps more frequently EAT (Ending All Together) problems.

So I guess you can say I've had a case of the CRABs and an EATing disorder as well.

Luckily, I can blame it all on the drummer! Well maybe not the CRABs...........

bburk · #7 04-27-2007, 12:23 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Phalex

I've never had ICHS. I have experienced CRAB, and perhaps more frequently EAT (Ending All Together) problems.

So I guess you can say I've had a case of the CRABs and an EATing disorder as well.

Luckily, I can blame it all on the drummer! Well maybe not the CRABs...........

I think they make a topical cream for that...

Dan Knowlton · #8 04-27-2007, 05:52 PM

I get OSIS - Oh ****, I'm soloing!

I just don't like bass solos most of the time.

Dan K.

BigOleBoogie · #9 04-28-2007, 05:42 PM

I get CRABs every time we rehears Boogie Oogie Oogie. I can't EVER remember that riff. Well, three times in rehearsle now.

rancidrancid · #10 04-28-2007, 11:26 PM

I used to have CRABS, now I mainly have SPACES. My guitar player wants to kill me for it too.
Stop Playing And Change Equalizer Settings.

Depth_Charge · #11 04-29-2007, 09:41 AM

I tend to suffer a little more from ICHS than CRABS myself, and it's always the stuff I'm most familiar with and the band know I can play well, so it really stands out too.

But I can't work out what's worse - messing something you forget up with CRABS, ICHS, or "INSTINCT" - I Neglected Studying This I Now Can't Think. This is when I forget something, yet freakishly keep playing it, while being unable to recall what comes next, and still worrying about the fact I can't actually remember how what it is I am actually playing goes, and I freak out thinking "Oh my God Oh my God Howsit go?" until I get to a part I can recall. Then I trip.

That's only happened to me a handful of times (usually I just mess it up), but when I get INSTINCT, it throws me off for a while. Usually from the surprise once I realign my thoughts and actions and realise I didn't skip a beat during that brainwreck. I congratulate myself, then bloomp. Ugh!

Is recognising I didn't skip a beat a universal tax-carrying moment leaving me owing a mistake? It must be!!

Deacon_Blues · #12 04-29-2007, 10:08 AM

My band suffers from CEAT (can't end a song) and CRAF (Can't remember any forms). Maybe they would disappear with a bit more practicing...

I get CRAB sometimes, maybe also ICHS, but I wasn't really sure what you meant by it...

the_fonz · #13 04-29-2007, 12:13 PM

i don't have these, i get TSS
Too Syncopated Syndrome
i always get so far into syncopation that i can't play the song the way it's supposed to be, and it's a trainwreck
mostly happens with School's Out, that bassline's a bitch

BellBottomBlues · #14 04-29-2007, 12:26 PM

My band suffers from horrible CEAT....

We had a 45 minute set with a 20 minute cover of white room...

**Mickey Shane** · #15 04-29-2007, 04:32 PM

After 7 years of playing 5 string basses only, I STILL sometimes get SWS.

Starting on the wrong string. I'd rather get CRAB and not play anything, then to play a bad first note. The song never fully recovers.

MKS · #16 05-03-2007, 11:10 AM

I sometimes get TIBTTB. "Take It *BADLY* To The Bridge" You know, the modulation thingy where you have to throw in a different passing tone in order to wind up on that new chord, whatever it is, that leads into the bridge section thingy. That and the very much related CGBM-OMFUG. Chord Change Before Modulation. Blondie - Sunday Girl. Bah...

Ibanezzer · #17 05-03-2007, 10:42 PM

haha yeah that happens way too often for me!

elgranluis · #18 05-04-2007, 10:11 AM

how about HDIPTLITS?

How did I play this line in the studio? I never actually seem to learn my own songs! Oh well...

ibnzneksrul · #19 05-04-2007, 10:42 AM

I suffer from CRHIPTLT - can't remember how I played this last time.

lonotes · #20 05-05-2007, 01:48 PM

I haven't figured out a catchy acronym for it, but a couple of weeks back, my guitar player called out a song that I know I've played a million times, but at that moment I couldn't remember ever hearing the song in my entire life. I drew a complete blank. I gave a kind of blank stare, and my guitar player called out the opening chord, and even that didn't remind me. It only took a couple of bars to figure it out, but in the meantime, P A N I C !