I've managed, not through any particular plan, to play every other day this month. That's about to come to an end. We've got a few days of being away and a few days with a house guest, so unless I can muster the energy to play tomorrow today was probably the last time this month I'll have my pipes out. I feel slightly sad about that, but hopefully a rest will help tunes ferment in my brain a little.
Today I worked on the Women. It's odd how when I read a tune I go from start to finish, maybe note complex gracing, but rarely spot patterns. It seems to be after I've played a tune for a bit that I start thinking that this bit is rather like that, and then I go back to the dots and see the patterns, the repeats, the not-quite-the-same bits, like the B strike B on one bar in the B part which in the variation is B A B. Or the low G that I have been playing as a low A, and actually I will continue with that as somehow the G sounds wrong now.
Anyway, I think I may be able to forge a pairing between the Women and Sleat. Maybe. I worked on both of these this evening, made a complete mess of Miss G once or twice, fluffed My Home Town, but nevertheless enjoyed playing. In a quiet sort of way I am feeling the love at the moment.
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