Icarus @ 59 # 247

I would love to be a really good mandolin player but I am not. I get away with lots and I like to write on it. You hear different 'grace notes' from, say, a guitar. They are often insignificant slips or embelleshments on the chords you are using but on picking them out you can begin to pick out different tunes. Since I don't read music and have no formal training at all I am constantly listening for them. I guess if I did learn to read and play properly I would reach my tunes quicker, then again maybe not. Perhaps the accidental stumbling is the crucial part of the creative process and hearing those notes that my fingers bump into become the trigger for the tune that appears - and then when it does its a joy. Maybe I will post such a tune one day - like this lad, and sometimes I watch these just to see how its done.