Thursday, August 11, 2011

small group meeting, Rick's House, 8-9-11

Rick, Dev, Chris (scribe). We begin with a circulation. Dev says he has two things in mind he wants to focus on: Thrak and Morning Has Broken. In Thrak, Dev and Chris take on different parts in the middle section than those they normally play, and time is taken to loop the section and break the part down to its individual components. After this, we approach the piece head-on from the top, but the take falls apart. We bring a metronome in and notice we are losing the time frequently. After some notes and a few more retakes, we remove the metronome and are eventually able to manage a workable rendition.

Dev says that some of the details of the Morning Has Broken main melody, such as phrasing and certain ornaments, are not clear on our recordings of it. We work on putting these things together and get a clearer melody. We follow a similar vein for a trio version of Batrachomyomachy. A closing circulation, and our guitar work is done.

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