Or in this case, familiar tunes. I'm starting to feel that slowly, slowly, through much repetition this month, various tunes are creeping up alongside the Tree to that state where I don't really need to think about them; I can just play, listen, note how my fingers fall on the chanter.
Also feeling the need to find new tunes. I played for nearly an hour tonight and despite playing some tunes over and over and going back to them later and throwing in test runs of some new tunes, I felt I was running out by the end. I think the only thing I didn't play was the King.
Began on Monkey in A, droneless. Tried the "new" tunes - Blue Bonnets, which I noticed when looking for a blog post yesterday to link to that I had said in the past I liked, Battle of the Somme, which is one of those on the fan's new CD, and Mrs McLeod of Rasaay, because I would like to be able to play it and it's on the same page as Somme in the Piper's Delight. I wanted to find Balmacara, from the same CD, because we've had happy holidays there and I once sat with my chanter and played tunes on the shore of Lochalsh.
Switched to Monkey in D and played pretty much everything, including the new tunes again, Home and Flett a number of times. A medley of Tree, Galloway, Teribus, Rocks, Home, lasting almost 10 minutes.
Comfortable, except with drones, where I feel like I am losing air. Also I don't think they are in tune and the fan is away and the phone (which has a tuner on it) has gone with him.
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