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    • #51736
      kate.kakadu
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      My practice challenge goal was to review and ā€˜fingerprintā€™ songs Iā€™ve learnt on my Fiddlehed journey so I can play them without the music. As I am progressing through the intermediate course and learning new songs, the old ones get forgotten – but as soon as I hear or start to play them I can usually play them all the way through. So I made this list, and a cheat sheet to help me review songs quicker and build a set that Iā€™ll be confident playing with others.

    • #51739
      Mike Reeve
      Participant

      That’s very organised and a good cross over between tune names and music. I’m even more impressed that you can play from sheet music, I think that’s a hurdler I’ll never overcome if I’m honest.

    • #51744
      kate.kakadu
      Participant

      Thanks, Mike. Never say never though! I have improved in my ability to read music notation since starting this course.
      But Iā€™m only doing this for songs I have learnt and know how to play all the way through without the music – itā€™s just that as I learn more and more songs the recall of the tunes Iā€™ve learnt a while back is slower. I need a trigger to remember how they start. I didnā€™t want to keep going back to the Fiddlehed site to listen to them, or flick through a printed songbook, so made the cheat sheet as a quick reference for practice. For people who donā€™t read musical notation you could screen shot the tabs for the 1st phrase of the song, or if youā€™re really technical, record yourself playing the first phrase and embed that as a hyperlink into the PowerPoint, whatever helps to jog the memory.

    • #51756
      Mike Reeve
      Participant

      Problem is I’m not sure that I want to play from sheet music Kate. It seems like a chore that will just take away from my fun of messing around with the fiddle really. I keep having a little go at it and reading it is ok, but turning what I see on a page into a position of a finger on a string … that’s not something I think I’m going to get. If I’d started 20 years ago I would have learned it, but I really am impressed with people who can do it šŸ™‚

    • #51758
      kate.kakadu
      Participant

      Yes Mike, and Iā€™m impressed with people who donā€™t need to read music to play. I think youā€™re right to want to stick to the fun of just playing. Iā€™m really trying to just learn the songs so I can play anytime, anywhere, and not have to have the music in front of me.

      And for anyone who is interested in using my sheet as a practice prompt, Iā€™ve just realised I made a mistake on the titles: ā€˜Harvest Homeā€™ and ā€˜Haste to the Weddingā€™ need to swap places!

    • #51811
      Fixkids
      Participant

      Brilliant! Thanks for sharing. _Deb

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