GCNE meeting August 21
Meeting attendees included Victor, Glenn, David, Martin, Mary Beth, and Terry.
The meeting started a little late because MB was having a lesson with Victor. Also, once the waiting crew--Glenn, David, and Terry--were let in, V went for beverages. After he returned Martin arrived. The lesson continued into the meeting and we focused on a practice statement: if you can play something seven times in a row perfectly then you know it. We attempted to play Bach's Invention No. 10 perfectly. While G did a quick refresher on the song (he is now playing his third role on this piece), V talked about his plans for us to perform in the latter part of the fall. We will need to focus our efforts to make this work. G returned to the circle and we played the piece. After a few attempts, Victor had us look across to our fellow player who shared our time to play. Victor looked at Terry, Glenn looked at MB, David looked at Martin. This task seemed to help us play better. Then, we just looked at each other's right hand...again, this seemed to help our playing (but I'm speaking for myself mainly). Then, Glenn and I switched seats and we gave that configuration a try.
When Victor made the statement that we were going to keep playing it until we got it, we seemed to make more mistakes. But, Victor commented that we played better under this more stringent rule. We took a break to do the following...say a task outloud and then do it (we did this all together which made for interesting chatter), then say two tasks and then do those in order. We returned to Bach but didn't get all the way through. We then worked on Thrak and marching.
Our task for next week...work on the Bach piece and Eye of the Needle so that we will be able to play these through next week without mistakes. Our challenge for next week will be to play these two songs without mistakes next week.
The meeting completed at 10:30 PM.
The meeting started a little late because MB was having a lesson with Victor. Also, once the waiting crew--Glenn, David, and Terry--were let in, V went for beverages. After he returned Martin arrived. The lesson continued into the meeting and we focused on a practice statement: if you can play something seven times in a row perfectly then you know it. We attempted to play Bach's Invention No. 10 perfectly. While G did a quick refresher on the song (he is now playing his third role on this piece), V talked about his plans for us to perform in the latter part of the fall. We will need to focus our efforts to make this work. G returned to the circle and we played the piece. After a few attempts, Victor had us look across to our fellow player who shared our time to play. Victor looked at Terry, Glenn looked at MB, David looked at Martin. This task seemed to help us play better. Then, we just looked at each other's right hand...again, this seemed to help our playing (but I'm speaking for myself mainly). Then, Glenn and I switched seats and we gave that configuration a try.
When Victor made the statement that we were going to keep playing it until we got it, we seemed to make more mistakes. But, Victor commented that we played better under this more stringent rule. We took a break to do the following...say a task outloud and then do it (we did this all together which made for interesting chatter), then say two tasks and then do those in order. We returned to Bach but didn't get all the way through. We then worked on Thrak and marching.
Our task for next week...work on the Bach piece and Eye of the Needle so that we will be able to play these through next week without mistakes. Our challenge for next week will be to play these two songs without mistakes next week.
The meeting completed at 10:30 PM.
posted by Mary Beth at 1:35 AM
1 Comments:
I think there's a difference between playing something "perfectly" and "without mistakes". From what I understand, playing 7 times without mistakes is considered "knowing". Also for next week, we are supposed to be ready to play our parts for Askesis.
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