sun jan 8th, 2006

at the dojo. martin, david, mb, glenn, victor. we began with a 5 part improvisation in 5/8 which lead into a circulation. then victor called for a choose a note piece in the c symmetrical scale, with notes to be played using the principles we study in the circle. we worked on eye of the needle and after a brief bathroom break by victor where glenn declined to tell an amusing anecdote we worked on doing a light march while we played eye of the needle, and then more specifically the f# section of eye of the needle and then the whole of eye of the needle again. we played askesis, and we surprised at how well this sounded given the state of eye of the needle, and then after joking about eye of the kesis and ass needle we played askesis again. glenn recalled that in atlanta they worked on third relation for 15 minutes straight for two days and that helped his hands give up working too hard. we ran the Ab and Db sections of askesis for 10 minutes straight. we played eye of the needle again, but still it was a struggle. we worked for over a half hour to be able to play slowly the first page of bach's invention #1 as a 4 seat circulation. we played a 5 part improvisation in 3/4. and then at glenn's request played third relation to stay in touch with it.