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I have posted about some Wendy MacIsaac tunes in other threads (will add links)... but finding myself drawn to more & more of her playing and her tunes.
I'm compelled to have one of her tunes cooking on the back-burner at all times, but admit I've been cherry-picking thru her sets - hopefully I'll complete them someday.
I haven't listened well enough to the whole set. Think the 1st tune sounds like it has a strathspey tacked on (before the 2nd tune listed) & may be a few more that are unidentified in the set, or variations, (Cape Bretoners seem to do this). Tunes like the 'Morrison' have SIX parts!
I've been working on a type of grace note called a "catch" by pipers - maybe similar to a 'lower mordent'(?) They are lower than the main note, sounded a little longer than than a typical 'grace' note - NOT percussive, so usually written as a thirty-second note, or sixteenth.
Anyway, Wendy uses them regularly in her playing (you can hear right off in the 1st tune). Natalie MacMaster uses it too - I've been playing her version of "Fingal's Cave" with them.

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Glad I checked in here earlier - jeez, haven't worked on this set since Summer, but have to say... what a mood changer!
I really needed to play this music - and it felt GREAT!
But, after I was playing for a while I took a look at the notation... here again, fresh eyes & ears tell me Wendy is NOT playing what's listed as the tunes in this set (from on The Session) - probably more, starting with the 1st tune! I have been learning by ear what Wendy plays, but I'd still like to know WHAT I'm playing, so I can at least tell someone. 🤬
Darned if I haven't been playing some of these too much - of course they sound VERY familiar to me! 😒 First one seems more like the Orkney slow air, by Gordon Gunn - but now my brain is completely scrambled. 😵
😞... don't know how I'm supposed to remember everything I hear when I can't even remember the name of most tunes I play regularly!
Oh well, back to bounce, bounce, triple bow cut, bounce! ...too bad I can't lose weight just by playing such springy/bouncy, energetic music!
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