Hi Mo, I was refering to people learning tunes in sessions by ear - not from music.

The mantra from the learning by ear people (LBEP?) seems to be that the dots are not enough, well maybe that's true. But all over the country people are learning slightly different versions by ear. When they gather at festivals I guess the some people are meeting different people and are together playing slightly different versions of Speed the Plough or what ever.

As I said - I have no problem with this but it doesn't look or sound like something beyond the dots.

I have not learned a dance tune by ear for around 40 years but via Tuneworks I have learned to play from the dots in about a year. I now know that most country dance tunes are quite simple and easy to play.

But still around the LBEP exists an air of mystery concerning The Dots Are Not Enough (TDANE) - LBE lets you into deeper knowledge and some how the fine detail of playing these tunes for dances, who in my experience always have more fun than anybody else in the folkie world, will make better dancers and dancing. It's Social Dance for goodness sake - Social is the most important word.

Thanks for Tune works for stripping away the b*llshit and leading thousands of us into playing great little tunes