Sunday, April 4, 2010

GCNE Meeting, 04-04-2010, the Loft

In the circle: Victor McSurely, Rick McCarthy, Chris Paquette, Brad Hogg, Glenn Hughes, Alex Lahoski, Dev Ray.

Glenn, Rick, and Brad are the first ones to arrive, with Victor arriving shortly after. After setting up, and a moment of silence, Victor shows us a couple of circulation exercises that he picked up while in Sassoferrato. As we are working with these, Dev shows up. And, as things often turn out, we opt to catch up on what happened at the course in Italy, just as Dev is ready to play.

What follows is roughly two hours or so of discussion: with the completion course having completed, and the future of this work wide open, there's a lot to be done and undertaken.

A little after 10 p.m., we take a bit of a break, to give our posteriors a chance to recoup, and then visit a couple of exercises, including reviewing the circulation exercises we tried at the beginning of the night. When asked for requests, Alex suggests Flying Home into Thrak, like we did at the gig the week before. Very good: the spaces in the polyrhythms are really present.

Concluding the meeting at 10:30 or so, we all bid adieu, and look forward to next week.

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