Musical Physics

First posted Aug 27th, 2012 by newpiper

This morning I've sat down and just tried to play the Castle, Home and Banks by heart. Castle and Home are the hardest...they both start D throw, E, F, A, F. It's so easy to pause too long on the first F and fall into Castle Dangerous when you mean to play Home Town. I also find it hard to hold both tunes in my head at once - they seem to cancel each other out by some strange law of musical physics. So the challenge is not remembering the tune, as such - it's being able to decide which of the two I want to play and then conjure it into my head, forcing the other out, without banishing it permanently. I've tried flipping between the two to really force myself to think about it.

Home keeps skipping into the B part - I have problems playing the A part twice, for some reason. That drop to low A after the F in the B part keeps throwing me. I rest on the F trying to remember where I go next. I think if I kept the grip in that might help.

Also had a brief go at Heights of Casino and Troy's Wedding. I need to find a clean copy of the Heights - difficult to tell the length of some notes from my version.

Still hating my drones and playing with them capped off. The bag is marking my left forearm as I try to put pressure on it instead of the bellows. Bellows tube still coming out a lot. But with a bit more work I think I can claim these three tunes to be some I know dotless (and let's hope that's more permanent than Dusty Pipes, the first tune that claimed dotless status, and which I think I no longer know.)