Steady practice, back to three sessions most days... last week a lot of gospel and Hank Williams... getting back to working through intensive practice on a few rags this week. (Usually four times through each section... the next phase on Easy Winners, Swipesy and others.) Also doing a lot with treating the left hand as a guitar, many bass/chord unisons and off-tempos. Another LH thing has been using major-sixth and major-seventh chords (Am or Em triads off of C tonality, eg). In Irish tunes I've been getting a lot more articulation... there's so much work to be done in the spaces between notes. Finally playing Valse des Niglos... the sheetmusic is confusing because it includes layers of variations... I'll have to arrive at a handling, by ear. Progress.
posted by macromed5 at 8:06 PM