Ok,I have a good 6 weeks experience under my beer-swollen belt, and I am getting into the intracacies of actually having a set to play. I choose not to limit myself to Celtic tunes, ie, old McDonald had a Farm is in my repotoire (BTW, is that Scottish?).
Anyhow, I am content playing a tune, actually blowing into a tube and fumbling my fingers, and every now and then, the infinite number of monkeys at the infinite set of keyboards that is my brain throw together a few cogent notes, reminding one of music. That is fine.
But I have a teen-aged step-kid who happens to be watching something violent on television in the same room that I choose to use as my Music Conservatory. Why he isnt hanging around on some street-corner like good old step-dad did, I will never know.
He constantly gives me THE look and asking me are you ever going to learn to play a tune on that thing?
I reply that he is ignorant of the subtleties of Celtic music, and what he mistakenly considers a badly played tune is actually a contemplative air rich with grace notes and what is called embellishments.
Is this why they call it embellishment?
[ This Message was edited by: StewySmoot on 2001-08-08 16:51 ]
If you don’t know the tune…just play it really fast, and fake a bunch of rolls and cransa and stuff, and tell people that’s how it’s SUPPOSED to sound!