3/2

In childhood I learned a corrupted version of Barbary Ellen in 4/4 time and it's really HARD to make the shift to 3/2 time now. I know I'm probably just suffering some kind of sideways effects of other people's misery here at Polly HQ but I'm feeling short bursts of anger about stuff like that - it's so infuriating that we can't share musical knowledge easily. Why musical knowledge has been attached to our episodic memory and not to some other more generous plane I do not know but it pisses us off.

Mum on the verandah made an extraordinary claim about our 'impeccable sense of timing' which might have been true in childhood when we were musical stars of a sort, but is not true any more, or at least not for me. (Timing is one of my weaknesses as a musician now) And it made me so angry.

It's all here, in this brain. Surely??? All the things different people learned at school and in orchestra and through practice and some gifts. Why can't we just have them? Why do we have to learn everything all over again, as individuals?