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Sep. 16th, 2003 08:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
catsittingstillI went riding with Don Olive (one of the professors at Carson Newman whom I met at faculty lunch last week) again today. I didn't have any pressing dinner engagements, so we could start at five and ride till whenever. We wound up going 16 miles over hill and dale--but it's so beautiful and green out there, with fields laid over the hills like a corduroy quilt over a child's knees, pastures and woods, ponds (well, okay, there was only one pond and it was kind of mucky--I think it watered cows) and enough bends and overhanging trees to keep the road mysterious. We went 16 miles in about an hour and 40 minutes, and filled our eyes up with green before we went back to my house. I'm pretty much played out now.
I'm also trying to get ready for a musical get-together this coming weekend (aarg--I'm running out of time). Since I've never played with these people (Ernest, Shannon and Jock) before, I'm thumbing through _Rise Up Singing_ trying to find songs I know that they might know. But I have to cross check everything by playing it through with the chords to make sure the melody I know and the melody other people know will be more-or-less the same. And of course, as I go I have to transpose to make up for Feather being a tenor. I'm going to get very good at this :-) It's good practice, and by the time I'm finished I may be comfortable with the book's somewhat arcane way of indicating chords.
I'm also trying to get ready for a musical get-together this coming weekend (aarg--I'm running out of time). Since I've never played with these people (Ernest, Shannon and Jock) before, I'm thumbing through _Rise Up Singing_ trying to find songs I know that they might know. But I have to cross check everything by playing it through with the chords to make sure the melody I know and the melody other people know will be more-or-less the same. And of course, as I go I have to transpose to make up for Feather being a tenor. I'm going to get very good at this :-) It's good practice, and by the time I'm finished I may be comfortable with the book's somewhat arcane way of indicating chords.
