TYVM @Mouse and @ABitRusty - I like the slow airs- they give you a chance to play in "auto" mode - without thinking specifically about individual notes, score sheet, or timings and instead to home in on the feeling and expression you want (or try) to impart to the take.    It becomes no longer about the individual notes (and indications on articulation and dynamics etc.... where/if they exist) on the sheet - it's so much more than that for a solo take - something I continually aspire to and occasionally feel I start to get close to what I hear in my head...   

To get there can be SO darned annoying...  but sometimes, just sometimes- we get close to what we want...  

Love the instrument (any fretless one!), love the journey....