Just listening to Emma Sweeney. She's playing down our way this coming Monday and we'll be there. Maybe too much American influence for my liking, and I know the fan will spit feathers because she's only 20-something and such a good fiddle player...
I've played a little this evening. Still working on Troy, which is all there, but is in serious need of some polish. Playing around with putting Loch Bee with Flett. I think Flett will need to come first. Still finding it hard to pair tunes up. Magersfontein still trips me up from time to time, but I do like it. The Nova Scotia tunes I played, too, and Galloway. I forget which tunes I know, and have to think about it.
Working hard at the Highland Brigade at Waterloo. It's a rather sombre tune. Still enjoying that C part, and still struggling with the B and D parts with those high As split by two quick notes and a grace. Playing the As, the other two notes, no graces, and as if all four notes had the same time value. I just need to get the fingering right and relaxed and fast. It's a job for the practice chanter, really.
The recording is the Sound of Sleat. Not sure now why I wanted to play it. It's on Seal Song, of course, and in one set on my Grand Concert CD. The timing has taken a bit of work. The opening bars I found difficult, specifically the second bar. The last part is a doddle and I play that faster than anything else. Generally I'm playing too slow. I think I'm there now, timing-wise, but I vaguely wonder why I bothered. It seems a bit dull, somehow.
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