Opening the meeting at roughly 7:45 p.m., with a moment of silence. There is still sound, however--the unit next to ours is playing Ella Fitzgerald quite loudly. Though this could be distracting, it also provides a pointed stick, as it were.
Victor begins by touching on something that RF gave him at the completion course in March, regarding areas of special study (for an explanation of this, RF has posted this on his own diaryhere), and alludes to how "performance" seems to be the direction that this circle is taking. An alternative way of putting this would be that "performance" is becoming very much a part of the circle's direction, along with the available option of "improvisation". Fittingly, several have brought LectroSonic Mouse amps, and busking is a posted option for tonight. Before we choose to do this, however, we elect to warm up and make sure that the amps are working. Victor initiates a circulation to the right, to check levels.
30 minutes later, we come up for air, from a long spontaneous improvisation. Observations are presented. At about 9 p.m., we take a short break, during which Glenn learns how to differentiate between black metal and death metal.
Back in the circle at about 10 after, we approach Morning Has Broken, again. This is the first time in a few months that we've had (almost) everyone here working on this, but progress is clear. We spend roughly 20 minutes with this, working from the intro through the second verse (same as the first), and agree to stop before the second bridge, where the key changes. Moving on, we take a few moments to revisit some repertoire we haven't played for a bit: Where's The Nurse? and Flying Home.
With another very short break, we then put our guitars away and review the morning sitting exercises that Victor gave us, the week before, and discuss some of the more inward work that we undertake. The meeting is finished at roughly 10:20 p.m.
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