Evening all-knowing C&Fers.
I’ve just picked my whistle tutorial back up since the crazy summer is drawing to a close and I’ve started on Kitty’s Gone a Milkin’.
My problem is at the end of the first bar, there is a B followed by a C natural right before the repeat sign. My question is whether this is played the first time through the first bar on the cd, it doesn’t sound like it to me, and when I try to play it, it seems awkward. Do you just play it when you’re moving onto the second part of the song (edit: reel 
sorry)?
Not knowing the tune, I put it into the Amazing Slow Downer, and it sounds to me as though they both get played each time. Those last two notes are really sort of lead-in notes for the following sections.
In fact, if you play b c at the very beginning of the tune, it sounds better to me than just starting it cold. Actually, that’s what happens when you repeat from the end of the tune, as the same two notes at the end of the last bar serve as a lead-in to the first bar.
Yeah I noticed that when I went on. I’m getting it to sound half-decent. Thanks Darwin
Is it one of these?
http://trillian.mit.edu/~jc/cgi/abc/findtune?P=kitty's+gone&F2=find+(wide)&L=1000
I agree..in my opinion those two notes are really “pickup notes” but moved to the end rather than giving them their own measure at the beginning of the section.
On my site I’ve noted what the tune looks like with the pickup notes arranged the way I’d expect to see them.
I play either C natural or C sharp depending on what the people I’m playing with are playing and/or what my fingers feel like doing at that moment. If you were recording the tune with another instrument, you’d want to figure it out in advance to be in synch.
Thanks alot folks