Attending: Victor, Chris, Brad
Illness claiming half the circle tonight.
Brad arrives at Victor's a little early than 7:30, and helps a bit with cleaning and preparing the space. Sending Victor's youngest to bed is of necessity, so she gets a duo version of Third Relation as a lullaby.
Once she's put to bed, Victor and Brad eschew calisthenics and move straight into Flying Home, working on the bass part. The F Phrygian section gets a hard look, and we carve it up a bit into its two elements of bass and tenor, especially focusing on the rhythm of the thumpy bass. Chris arrives as we're working on this.
Some more carving and dissecting and attention to staccato-ness, and the lead part gets a close look. Then combining the parts and running it as such.
A break. Victor's family returns home just as we're wrapping the first part of the meeting, and Chris and Brad talk a bit about bands and jazz guitar.
Voices is up next. The big work with this seems to be helping Victor with really learning the counting (and deciding exactly how to count) of the lead-bass. Besides a bit of incongruity, some musical playing.
A long discussion that stems from a question to Chris about perfection, and Victor's work on music as a manifestation of three different workings of the brain. Brilliant stuff, from a subjectively objective viewpoint.
Eye of the Needle, once, sans bass.
Wrapping up around 11 pm.
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