amazing how quickly tunes you spent a lot of time perfecting get lost if you don't play them. Re: How many tunes at a time? My fiddle teacher tells me of the autistic student he has who does one tune, and only one tune, for 6 to 9 months at a time. I think he is commending that practice to me, as I am quite promiscuous about learning new tunes. I jack all of them and master none... Ha, ha! keep time: how sour sweet music is, When time is broke and no proportion kept! --William Shakespeare Re: How many tunes at a time? I tend to learn only one new tune a week, but if you think about it, over time that adds up. I don't get bored because I'm always playing the other tunes I learned before. If I take only a few days to learn a fiddle tune, I can get it memorized, but it won't stick. Really, there's no huge rush. Kenny Hall says in an interview that he learned a new tune every two weeks. Over fifty years, he had more than 1000 tunes under his belt. That interview was pretty dated though, who knows how many songs he knows by now. I know I say this a lot, but I find the Song of the Week group here really helpful. There's a huge difference in learning a tune and in learning a tune well enough and then adding your own embellishments for a video.