Tuesday, November 13, 2007

Jersey Lightning

We've been doing "Lightning Rounds" lately as part of our fiddle practice... starting with a tune and playing it a couple times through, then calling out the next tune and going right into it. We continue on as long as we can think of tunes, and remember how they get started. It's a lot of fun, increases thinking capacity, and it's amazing how many tunes we really do know without reading music or having the book open in front of us "just in case". Richard and I do this at home from time to time and we did it at a practice last night. The tricky thing for the guitar or bass player is to know the chord progressions, and to have the chord announced along with the name of the tune when calling the changes.
Jersey Lightning comes from Portland Collection volume two.

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