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Seriously: If you value it, take/fetch it yourself
It was more about working out tracks or licks or solos to get them into memory. Guthrie Govan and lots of greats said they transcribed lots... which means to write down. However some people say transcribe and they mean just work out. Whats better? As you soon as you have written it down you then read to get it into memory. However if you kept coming back to the solo and working it out again and again until its memory would this improve your ear and memory quicker?
Seriously: If you value it, take/fetch it yourself
But you are right in that at some point you're gonna have to learn how to play it on your instrument and unless you can play directly from sheet music like the guys in orchestras, it's going to have to get into your head.
For that I would just learn the first phrase, get it down under my fingers and get to the next one. Take your time with it and you'll be fine.
The goal for me is to get your brain AND your hands to know what the next phrase is as you're playing the previous one.
The secret of memorizing songs for me is to not view them as a single block but rather as a succession of licks and phrases, and if you know which one goes after the one you're playing, then you can play the whole song without any problem.
Let me know if it helps (or doesn't) and good luck.
Max
I have remembered a lot of things in the past but then never remember them again. I guess just need to keep going over old ground as well as new!