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Even though we may only have the sun for just one day..

Movies.. We went to see Underdog ! Amber laughed so much right through it that come the end of the film I was laughing so much just at her.

Grand day today, brilliant sunshine right the way through, nipped up to a neighbour with one of my blazzin fiddles cd's, Lise is one of these brilliant folks who can play by ear, so she's going to learn a track called Catalina & the write down the score for me so I can learn it. On top of that I had an afternoon playing with Lise's grandfather working on the 7 step polka which they set me to on monday, almost got it just got to speed up the lillty bits a tiny tad, had a stab at The new rigged ship, but the ole 4th finger on the E string is still letting me down, getting that ole pinky to move with the dexterity needed to play this track is beyond me & im begining to wonder if it will ever not be so, ive just not got any lateral movement in my pinky when playing fiddle. Im working on it, drove everyone to near distraction this afternoon by doing an hr of scales on the E string to try and get some pinky response, hopefully if I keep doing that every day then one day, thine pinky shalt respond with light quickness.

But that aside, we had a stab at Maid behind the bar (which is a grand name for a tune of course) and ive got the 1st section note perfect & up to speed now, the 2nd section im working on (T Break ! ) It makes all the difference just being able to go play along with someone else & being able to watch how they finger & bow.