Past two Sundays
Sunday, 9/25
Attenddees: Victor and Mary Beth, so the evening became a lesson.
Highlight: Victor led exercises in how to learn music quickly. He uses three strategies: (1) seeing the pattern on the fret board, (2) hearing if the notes are low an high, (3) getting the pattern by grouping the notes in 2's and 3's.
He played me (MB) a series of notes. I had to determine the groupins. I got better at doing this with practice.
Minutes for Sunday, 10/2:
Attendees – Victor, Martin, Glenn, David, Mary Beth, Terry.
Place – Victor’s basement studio
We circulated for a while.
Then, started with EotN for Bridge before he went to bed. Moving from that, we played Growing Circle. V suggested that MB learn the lead line but not for the event on Oct 8th. We played the following songs to go over what we can play for 10/8 – the Bach piece, Third Relation, Bicycling to Afganistan (with Victor, Terry, and Glenn), Moving Force. We also played worked on Thrak. Rhythm trouble led to clapping exercises. We did four sets each of clapping on 1 & 4, then clapping on 1 & 3, and then clapping to 2 & 5. This exercise led to some improvement. Then we went back to playing Thrak. V made the very helpful comment about keeping up the count even when you are not playing. Otherwise, the song drags.
We talked about a three-week circulation course. This would be led by Victor and have a format of 8 hours per day of work with participants staying locally in houses.
We may or may have an official meeting next Sunday.
Attenddees: Victor and Mary Beth, so the evening became a lesson.
Highlight: Victor led exercises in how to learn music quickly. He uses three strategies: (1) seeing the pattern on the fret board, (2) hearing if the notes are low an high, (3) getting the pattern by grouping the notes in 2's and 3's.
He played me (MB) a series of notes. I had to determine the groupins. I got better at doing this with practice.
Minutes for Sunday, 10/2:
Attendees – Victor, Martin, Glenn, David, Mary Beth, Terry.
Place – Victor’s basement studio
We circulated for a while.
Then, started with EotN for Bridge before he went to bed. Moving from that, we played Growing Circle. V suggested that MB learn the lead line but not for the event on Oct 8th. We played the following songs to go over what we can play for 10/8 – the Bach piece, Third Relation, Bicycling to Afganistan (with Victor, Terry, and Glenn), Moving Force. We also played worked on Thrak. Rhythm trouble led to clapping exercises. We did four sets each of clapping on 1 & 4, then clapping on 1 & 3, and then clapping to 2 & 5. This exercise led to some improvement. Then we went back to playing Thrak. V made the very helpful comment about keeping up the count even when you are not playing. Otherwise, the song drags.
We talked about a three-week circulation course. This would be led by Victor and have a format of 8 hours per day of work with participants staying locally in houses.
We may or may have an official meeting next Sunday.
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