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Apr. 2nd, 2011 09:44 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
catsittingstillGot five strips on the boat yesterday. Two more (one and a smidge more but I don't have any easy way to produce a smidge of a strip) and I can cut the centerline so I may make a start on that today.
If I can find my gumption, which seems to have wandered off without me. Maybe it's under another couple of cups of tea. Maybe it's playing with the mimmoths. Who have apparently hidden about two thirds of the handkerchiefs in the house, and it's hayfever season.
I'm also hoping I can get in a good practice today. It's starting to feel like I may someday be able to play the ocarina part for Ballad of the Valkyries reliably, which is nice--it has taken me a lot longer to get even to this point than it would have with the mandolin, but I can sense a little bit of progress every day. And I have a kind of jig worked out for MayDaye to be the part where May is dancing, and while I can't play it at speed yet I am making progress. It's very hard to stretch that far on the octave mandolin but I can't change instruments in the middle of a song (not for performance anyway--it would be perfectly practical for recording.) Actually, I suppose it would be bright to see if I think the chords would work on the regular mando because the jig would be so much easier that way.
You know, with all this practice, it would be a smart idea to see if I can persuade a con or two to let me do a concert. Hmm.
If I can find my gumption, which seems to have wandered off without me. Maybe it's under another couple of cups of tea. Maybe it's playing with the mimmoths. Who have apparently hidden about two thirds of the handkerchiefs in the house, and it's hayfever season.
I'm also hoping I can get in a good practice today. It's starting to feel like I may someday be able to play the ocarina part for Ballad of the Valkyries reliably, which is nice--it has taken me a lot longer to get even to this point than it would have with the mandolin, but I can sense a little bit of progress every day. And I have a kind of jig worked out for MayDaye to be the part where May is dancing, and while I can't play it at speed yet I am making progress. It's very hard to stretch that far on the octave mandolin but I can't change instruments in the middle of a song (not for performance anyway--it would be perfectly practical for recording.) Actually, I suppose it would be bright to see if I think the chords would work on the regular mando because the jig would be so much easier that way.
You know, with all this practice, it would be a smart idea to see if I can persuade a con or two to let me do a concert. Hmm.
