Small group at Brad's Apartment

In attendance:  Chris, Brad.

With limited crew, there isn't a wide breadth of material to fall back on, but we do what we can.

- At Chris's prompting, Brad shows him a warm up for the hands that he's been using for a couple of months.
- Chris demonstrates some more of the small detail work that he's been looking at; some very particular phrasing in a few bars of the C Major Cello Prelude.  This works into some discussion of classical notation, personal interpretation, how daring one can be, etc.
- A bit of work with some of the rhythmic work we'd done two weeks back; Brad makes an over-suggestion.
- Short break
- A bit of repertoire work:  Where's the Nurse gets a run.  Chris notes that he really likes to hear the piece lay back hard on the downbeat of the bar (a heavy "one").  With a bit of explanation, we give this a try, and find that it really brings out the sexiness of the piece, for lack of a better term.  Also, a bit of attention to the lead outro arpeggios for Brad, with another note from Chris about the methodic approach.
- Brad mentions he's been working with overplaying the accents in Askesis, as well as addressing a very specific instruction from Victor about how to play the "many bugs" part.  We run the bass part from top to bottom, and then focus on a few spots where Chris knows the lead.  Chris's comment is that it really brings out the playfulness of the music, in contrast to the more constant attack that is commonly associated with Crafty music.
- A couple runs of Growing Circle; the second time, Brad asks Chris to overplay the dynamics (or really to just play louder).  Chris's dead strings don't make this easy for him.

With that, we call it a night.