I definitely agree with you about ornamentation Brian. For me there are two issues in this area...first, my skill on the oud isn't high enough that
my ornamentation is completely integrated with the surrounding notes, at least in some cases. And second, many of the most common types of
ornamentation aren't what *I* want to play myself, even if I do enjoy listening to others playing them. These are just things that I need to work out
personally, and I may be mixing a bit of these personal preferences into what I've said. Nevertheless, I still find that for mindfulness practice
(not musical practice) the sparsest phrases are most conducive to the practice. That's not music though.
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