Lil Dog Turpy

You're supposed to take breaths at the end of phrases....

If you don't read written music, then it can be very difficult when learning tunes by ear while sitting in a 'fast diddlydiddlydudlydum' session... but if you look at the sheet music for a tune (printed in Classical Music style) you will see a curving line over a section - that's a phrase. With other styles of printed music, there is usually a printed pause (silence) symbol that is a dead giveaway.

You should listen to the tune more, and try to reproduce the pauses that you hear very good players introduce, they do this at the end of phrases - here you can breathe...

:-)

Robin