Monday 15 February 2010

Much as I'm enjoying not being a practising musician for three months, it's quite strange to be spending my time planning projects that are in the future, without actually accomplishing very much in the present. Apart from putting up shower doors of course. And on eBay I've been flogging bits and pieces of equipment that have been cluttering up the shelves in here.

Yesterday I got the laptop back into service as a recording device to jam down a quick demo version of 'Adew Dundie', in the Skene MS version that gets the rhythm wrong (twice), and I discovered that the version in my head and in my fingers was wrong too - but differently wrong. But it got me thinking about how we choose the basses for tunes, especially 17th century tunes. We tend to assume that baroque rules apply, and that where I-IV-V chords seem to fit, they're our first ports of call. But what about trying binary I-O first instead? Also, the appalling state of my guitar playing reminded me that I must sort out all those samplable noises that Chris and DG made in here after our visit to The Banana Leaf back in October.