NEGC Meeting Minutes

April 3rd, 2005

Attendees: Victor, MB, Glenn, Martin, Dev

After the rhythm work, we discussed minutes and the importance of writing them. It was decided to keep the minutes to basic notes about the work we need to do. We also accepted a plan for who does the minutes each week. Each week’s minutes scribe is responsible for finding the scribe for the following week (even if they will not be attending that meeting). Glenn is retiring from the honorable but thankless (until now) position of being the sole person who acts on finding a minutes writer each week. Thanks Glenn!

Rhythm:
-Beat clapping on the 1, 2, 3, and the “ands” of 3, 4, 5, 6
-Right hand, left hand work pattern: both, R, L, R, R, L, R, both, R, both
-to loop the right hand-left hand pattern, the last “both” of the pattern because the “1” for repeating the pattern: both, R, L, R, R, L, R, both, R, both, R, L, R, R, L, R, both, R, etc
-Also, work on counting this pattern in 4/4

Circulation work:
-Cmaj scale, three octaves, asc and dec. We did this twice in not too long a time
-circulating the pentatonic scale (each person with one note in the scale); we did this with skipping/star patterns, as a sequential circulation, and as a sequential circulation where the start of the sequence shifted by one person after each complete sequence

Individual work:
Dev and G doing circle of 5ths scales…3rds, 4ths, triads, 5ths to octaves
Martin and MB are still working on the C major scale 3rds, 4ths, triads, 5ths, 6ths, 7ths, and octaves.

Note from last week:
We should probably be playing two hours a day to make progress. Something to strive for.

Minutes respectfully submitted by MBAH