Thanks, Toni  @coolpinkone 

@StaccatoDuo For the most part I really like the combo of the Snowball mic and Garageband  

Fighting the urge to delete the video, not totally happy with the result, and feeling extra hard on myself the more I listen to it. Evil instrument. 

Thanks, @BillyG I hate it when I start knit-picking my playing. I knew this video is just an example of where I'm at with the tune and my playing, so it wouldn't be perfect. I had at first felt like I was doing ok with it, timing is always my nemesis, can play along with the recording I was using to learn the feel of it (Mairead Nesbitt's version) but go off on my own and add a camera, and there goes all my work getting the timing and everything to work together. I figured, ah well, so what, it's where I'm at, and is what it is adding that camera into the mix, but apparently the timing was worse than even I thought, haha. Got a couple (well meaning, no ill intentions) messages (on the video and privately) about how noticeable my bad timing is, and it just made me feel like chucking it all in, haha. I was going to try recording it with a play-along track in my ear, but then I just look like a zombie, haha.

Thanks, @Fiddlerman My teacher skipped over all the polkas when we went through the Complete Irish Fiddle Player book, so I wasn't familiar with it either, but I got to like it after I heard Mairead Nesbitt play it on her album, so I went back to revisit the polkas on my own.

Cearbhael said
Except, of course, the rare total narcissist that is sure he sounds wonderful 

Haha, sometimes I wish I had a little of that... um, confidence, hahaha. 

Thank you, and you're right, we are our worst critics  

Thanks everyone I'll be happy when I can get it to the next level  

Thanks I'll give a listen again to see where I do that. I play a lot of hornpipes, so I do tend to swing tunes without trying, haha. I do purposely add a little bit of a bounce to the notes of the A part, kind of lower and raise the volume slightly on the notes, just because it felt fun, haha, and then when listening to other people play it heard them doing something similar.