No luck with Nigel's tune, mostly because although it plagues me all day it vanishes the moment I arrive home. However, I thought I should have a go at Hector the Hero. If I fiddle about on the pipes I often end up falling into a couple of bars of Hector, which mysteriously I then struggle to identify.
I've spent two evenings working on this - playing it, checking dots, playing again, checking dots again. I'm not 100% confident with it, but it's OK. The version here showing that slight lack of confidence. Some of the unevenness of sound I'm blaming on the fact that I was walking round the room as I played. My drones don't seem to be in tune. Some of the notes are a bit wavery. My timing isn't great and and my playing lacks any real feeling or lyricism.
I find when I'm not using dots I can somehow think more about the bellows and bag, and pump less and put more pressure on the bag. I feel as though I've been swinging by my arms - a definite sign I'm doing things differently today. I had a quick run through of the polska with dots, and then found I could get a half decent version without dots, so perhaps it's going to be like riding a bicycle and my brain just now knows how to memorise a tune. That would be nice!
Glad to find I can still play Dusty Pipes by heart - I was afraid the whole thing was a fluke. I did have to start with the second part as I couldn't remember how the first part began, but once I'd run through the second part I went straight into the first without any problems. My fan tells me this isn't unusual.
Small steps - still going in the right direction.
Recording - Hector the Hero. Lost! (Retrieved version on closer inspection was the fan playing the tune on fiddle)
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