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Inter-Tune Interference

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Do you ever have tunes bump into each other in your brain in destructive ways?

I recently learned the very fun D tune Twin Sisters off of the Chance McCoy album Debut.  After playing it a few times this morning I tried to play Soldiers Joy and every time I tried to start it I would end up playing the start of Twin Sisters.   I tried taking a breath and slowing down and, for the life of me, I couldn't remember how to start it!  (I could play the B part just fine.)  Finally, I had to listen to Mike Iverson's version of the tune about three times through before it came back to me and then I was fine.  Now, I've probably played Soldiers Joy at least 1000 times through.  It was one of the first songs I learned and it's one of those tunes that just kind of plays itself automatically whenever I switch over to double D.  It's amazing to me that I could ever "forget" how to play it like that.  Maybe dementia is starting in.  


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