I actually recorded this Sunday. This made it a little memory test, too, because I uploaded something called "My Recording 4.mp3" and had to listen to figure out what it was. And what it is is a modal slip jig (not a normal jig, despite the title). Jigs have two groups of three; they're transcribed in 6/8 and counted in 2. Slip jigs have three groups of three; they're transcribed in 9/8 and counted in three. This one is in D, but uses both C natural and C sharp, which I love.
...all of which is more evidence for my assertion that this music never requires me to count higher than three. (I play at least one thing in 7; my strategy there is not to count. I'm afraid I'm pushing my counting limits with Take 5, though).
ANYWAY: My current endurance-building thumb-allowed practice time is up to 40 minutes! I get in tune ruts and play the same stuff a lot, so yesterday I sorted the list of tunes I supposedly know alphabetically, and started at the top. I've had to look up how to start about half of them, but I even recovered Af Shabes In Vilna, which I thought was lost to the mists of time, so hot damn. if I keep averaging 8.5 tunes a day, I'll get through the whole list in a month!
