North Jetty Sheet, Sneak Peek!! (Patreon)

This is what it looked like to go from zero to something on North Jetty!

I realized I need to start over and write the timing differently because I have too many bars going by. I can double up the time passing in each bar and it will be easier to read.

I ran it by my Mom and she confirmed I should change it.

Everything with timing is relative so there are weird decisions sometimes that just come down to taste and readability. 

I can already feel myself getting a little faster at writing. It's coming back to me. 

This is an original tune that came about while touring in Florida. My bandmates and I were listening to a lot of Hank III as we road tripped across the southern states. 

We wanted that driving, kinda dark sound that Hank III seemed to preserve from the even older more mournful country music.

It wasn't until I wrote this out right after writing down Last of the Mohicans that I saw how this tune was also influenced by that one. Guess I couldn't help it. Once you play a tune hundreds of times it lives in your bones. 

The ornaments and the key were influenced by LotM for sure. 

It's a fun fiddle piece because it showcases multiple skills, like the ornaments I just mentioned, and also double stops. That's where you play two strings at once and it sounds like two violins. 

I really look forward to getting this out there and hearing renditions by other fiddle players! 

We wanted to dedicate this tune to Mark's Dad so we named it after the North Jetty, a secluded South Texas fishing spot that really is not for the faint of heart. 

They would stay up all night fishing and so had a joke among the family and friends who would go along, "If you wanna sleep... just find a soft rock."

It was funny, but I can actually remember laying on one layer of sleeping bag, and I could move around until I'd find just the right indentation for my head in the red granite stone. Looking up at the stars with some warm sea mist forming a soft layer on my face, it was actually one of life's most comfortable moments.