Thanks for all that..there's a lot of really useful stuff there.

I don't do set practice time either...I see my recorder and have to pick it up and play it, but then, I may as well make good use of that urge.

Big problem with a lot of the above is that I've never actually learnt music, so I know very little of the theory side. I don't actually know what an arpeggio is and my knowledge of things like keys and minor and major thingies is almost non-existant.

At the moment I tend to play a few tunes I paricularly like, perhaps play a few often-played session-type tunes from a big book of them we have, then maybe try and work out something that's in my head at the time.

Love Lynne