Attending: Victor, Chris, Brad, Scott
First meeting of the new year.
Victor leading calisthenics: starting with picking an open A, then passing this around the circle as 1 beat (then 2 beats) per person, playing 16th notes. Some words about playing as it travels round the circle. After a bit of this, Victor moves to doing the same thing with nonsense syllables. The next step is then combining the two: Victor begins by playing 4 beats on the guitar, then passes it to Chris. As Chris passes the note to Brad, Victor then improvises 4 beats in sixteenths of nonsense syllables, and then passes that to Chris, while Brad passes the guitar notes to Scott. This continues for a while--when it really locks in, it's palpable.
From here, we move to running the repertoire we've been working on for this project, while recording at the same time. Eye of the Needle, Voices of Ancient Children, Flying Home, Calliope, Where is the Nurse?, Asturias. A short mini-set, with some commentary throughout.
A break for the bums in the room, and we listen back; Victor plays around with some reverb on the recording specifically to highlight some points of interest in our playing. Some good moments, and good discussion. This ends the night for us, for this week.
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