There's a story of a piper (Billy Pigg??) not being allowed to learn the Barrington hornpipe till he'd mastered the relevant exercises, then he could play it at once - one of these must have been a passage of parallel 6ths as in the 2nd strain - maybe another for the semiquaver turn. Add some arpeggio figures, and you have most of the tune. But if you can play Peacock patterns you're a long way there. Taking a tune apart into the different motifs that make it up, practising these, and then playing the tune 'reassembled' is a good discipline, but of course I'm too lazy, and not a football fan. Exam invigilation is ok for silent fingering practice on a biro though. John
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