LMFAO - yeah - good stuff Mandy - aye - Vi's stuff can be real cool to listen to and get ideas from, no doubt.  Occasionally it leaves a little bit to the imagination maybe because of background noise where he plays - but what hedoes in his "tune a day" is never intended as an actual "lesson" - I love his stuff...  great....  He gets 100% respect from me - awesome ! LOL

Aye, @damfino ye be right to be a-waitin' fer me take on the ol' Sailors Hornpipe - I be havin' issues wi' t' change to part B, but 'twill be aw-right on the night ! LOL   

The windows-10 upgrade on THIS PC (that I can't record on) took 2 whole days - 20 hours online time for the actual download and about the same for the install to complete ( it went off and downloaded still MORE ) - but THAT gives me time to get a bit more practice in before I can record it ! Hahahah ( CHEAT ! )  Must admit - I'm having a lot of fun with part B - there's a good few double stops and 3-note chords to be picked out - not that I' going to try too hard on that - but they're there to be found....

coolpinkone said
@damfino - Loved your video... Ye make a good pirate...

@BillyG I sure love that video from 2014. Ye scare the piss right out of me with your nasty pirate bad self... ha ha... oh god.. did I just write that?

Happy Pirate-ing.  I hope we can keep adding to this for a few days... Its so cool!

Cheers Mates.  

  LMAO @coolpinkone - aye - ye just wrote that - LOL - and 'twas a shame about the poor "green-screen" - it was a "greenish" colored linen-bed-sheet and I didn't have an even-enough light source to make it work properly -so it was kind of fading in and out as I moved - but heck - what was that - 6 months into playing or so - great fun...   no chance to do anything like that this time round I'm afraid - too many other life/day-to-day issues here atm - so I'll just record a straight take....  hope I don't scare the piss outta you this time round ! 

  Happy bunny here ... 

damfino said
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@BillyG Are ye doin' the Vi Wickam version as well? I be "almost there" with the B part. Lots o' fun fancy bits in there.....

  Errrr - not sure - well - I think the answer is "no, not specifically"....   It was a tune I "started" to play ages ago simply because it was in my head, but I could never figure out the transition into the B part.   Then, some time back I found basic sheet for it, and then adapted it slightly to my own needs - so my version will be a kind of cross-breed between something and something-else - but hopefully recognisable !    I've checked out Vi's SH and as ever, great playing and variations, but too involved for me right now - although certainly lots of ideas in it to work on.....

  My Win 10 upgrade, 16 hours on, is still downloading - it claims to have reached 75% but the way Microsoft measure percentage appears to have more to do with the number of modules rather than the actual size in GBytes of the download.   In theory, I could use the machine while its doing that, but the last thing I want to do is "upset it" LOLOL - hopefully the take is still on the cards for later today...

Yesss indeed @damfino  - I listened again to Vi's take - it is clever and interesting (and IMO he loses the plot a little bit) - but like the consummate player he is, he gets back on track, seamlessly - awesome ! ( well that's how it seemed to me until you mentioned BB )

I don't know Blackberry Blossom - but what I *do* know - it is real easy to mix stuff up a little and bring "surprises" into it - that may be what I was hearing not knowing BB.. right... interesting...  

As an aside, and as it happens - @coolpinkone Toni referred to "Comin' thro' the Rye" recently ( apparently its a tune used in Outlander - which I've never seen ) - but it is, a bit like the Skye Boat Song an old, traditional Scottish tune - the REALLY WEIRD THING about it is that it is almost he same notes as "Auld Lang Syne" - just a totally different timing...  wow - I mean - BOTH of these tunes have been in my head from when I was 5 or 6 years old - and I had NEVER until I played Comin' thro the Rye realised how similar they were....   and that's maybe where Vi's improv comes up sounding like the Blackberry Blossom your teach refers to....  

Interesting...   I have to go find out about the BB thing... LOL ( I'm driven, just driven - can't help it )

Yeah - the double stop thing - what I find is that it just don't work if you try too hard - sometimes - it just comes easy - sometimes it seems to need more bow - haven't totally figured it out yet myself - what I have noticed is the bow angle - and - for instance - if I'm "flat (bow that is) across two strings" ( and it varies from string to string and instrument to instrument ) then generally (on my viola strung fiddle and indeed my FM Concert) the lower string can be far too present - especially if it (the lower string) is an open string - and then getting the subtle balance I want to hear can be difficult for me - the double string playing isn;t necessarily "PRECISELY" in the plane between G and D for example - you (well, I mean "one") might want a lighter touch on the open ( or stopped ) G and the note on the D for example.....  yeah... it's a LONG journey... but awesome

I'm loving every minute of playing - I really am, and there is SO MUCH feedback and  sharing of thoughts and ideas etc here - I have no words to express how great the FM site is - it's beyond compare !   TY Pierre @Fiddlerman  and all who ask questions or who give feedback on their playing - never stop - it's how we all learn and progress ! Well cool - thanks folks !

Yeah - I get that !   I'm probably not quite as "obsessed" about uncovering the detail - but - for sure - I understand ( that's an easy-way-out-for-me to let someone else do the hard work LOLOL - although of COURSE I'd love to know... LOL )

OK - I retract that - I AM obsessed - but not in that way.... to me the sheet is secondary to what I already "know" ( if that's not too strong a word - "hear" may be a better word ) in my head - but that's only because i play fiddle music - and - if soloing - you absolutely HAVE to "make it your own"

Which - indeed is precisely what Vi did there - yeah - I think we should share that - hang on till I find it  - here yah go folks - a fiddler just simply enjoying what he does - nothing more - nothing less - 

^5s @Vi Wickam - good stuff man and thank you !