Good session this morning, about an hour-and-a-half of just Irish tunes, working through that larger SlowPlayers tunebook. I'm not learning new tunes from there, more like playing through new tunes so I can get them in my ear and recognize them when I hear them from others to pay more attention.
I revisited a set I haven't played for a while, College Groves and Flogging Reel. These two I had over-practiced a few months back, trying to get particular ornamentation and emphasis down. Now I've forgotten them mechanically and can go back and reconstruct them from what I hear internally.
I've got a good amount of work to do this weekend, but really want at least one long session with ragtime tunes. Am also hoping to retune my lap steel from F-Bb-C-E-G-A-C-E (a C6 with extra bass notes) to G-A-C#-E-F#-A-C#-B (an A6, similar intervals, but retaining that b7 in bass and inserting a second degree inside-out on top, like an E13 pedal steel). That A13 tuning will be similar to the G13 for the Dobro, just a whole step higher due to current string gauges. But work will be heavy, and I don't know if I'll be able to get to it yet.
I revisited a set I haven't played for a while, College Groves and Flogging Reel. These two I had over-practiced a few months back, trying to get particular ornamentation and emphasis down. Now I've forgotten them mechanically and can go back and reconstruct them from what I hear internally.
I've got a good amount of work to do this weekend, but really want at least one long session with ragtime tunes. Am also hoping to retune my lap steel from F-Bb-C-E-G-A-C-E (a C6 with extra bass notes) to G-A-C#-E-F#-A-C#-B (an A6, similar intervals, but retaining that b7 in bass and inserting a second degree inside-out on top, like an E13 pedal steel). That A13 tuning will be similar to the G13 for the Dobro, just a whole step higher due to current string gauges. But work will be heavy, and I don't know if I'll be able to get to it yet.