Meeting minutes - Sunday, June 4th 2006
Attendees: Victor, Glenn, David, Martin, Mary-Beth
Location: South Boston
We began by playing the 16 bar exercise at a fairly fast tempo for about 15 minutes. We put our guitars down and did some cat-pose yoga stretches and crawling around on all fours. We then did about 20 minutes of work clapping Thrak (the entire piece, with some concentrated section work); reminders given about pushing the 4 during the rock-and-roll section, and keeping the feel of the 16th note pulse. We put our guitars back on and played Third Relation, and then Larks Thrak twice. Then we played Growing Circle and The Moving Force. Next was Askesis at a fairly fast tempo and it sounded pretty good. I made the comment that I felt like we have mostly shown steady progress on this more than any other piece. We then ran Calliope, spending a little extra time on the leads playing accent picking vs. alternate picking. We then worked on Eye of the Needle a number of times, spending time working on getting the leads and burbles all locked in together. Victor had MB and Glenn switch places in the circle. After another try, Victor said to listen to the lead for the downbeat, not the basses. The final piece we worked on was Bicycling to Afghanistan. We tend to slow down during the course of the piece; Victor suggested we should increase the speed through the course of the piece by about 3 bpm (but not 10 bpm). There followed a little discussion about the possible upcoming Keith Emerson gig, and the gig with Shawn and the need for extra mid-week practices; everyone is to get their upcoming schedules to Victor.
DBK
Location: South Boston
We began by playing the 16 bar exercise at a fairly fast tempo for about 15 minutes. We put our guitars down and did some cat-pose yoga stretches and crawling around on all fours. We then did about 20 minutes of work clapping Thrak (the entire piece, with some concentrated section work); reminders given about pushing the 4 during the rock-and-roll section, and keeping the feel of the 16th note pulse. We put our guitars back on and played Third Relation, and then Larks Thrak twice. Then we played Growing Circle and The Moving Force. Next was Askesis at a fairly fast tempo and it sounded pretty good. I made the comment that I felt like we have mostly shown steady progress on this more than any other piece. We then ran Calliope, spending a little extra time on the leads playing accent picking vs. alternate picking. We then worked on Eye of the Needle a number of times, spending time working on getting the leads and burbles all locked in together. Victor had MB and Glenn switch places in the circle. After another try, Victor said to listen to the lead for the downbeat, not the basses. The final piece we worked on was Bicycling to Afghanistan. We tend to slow down during the course of the piece; Victor suggested we should increase the speed through the course of the piece by about 3 bpm (but not 10 bpm). There followed a little discussion about the possible upcoming Keith Emerson gig, and the gig with Shawn and the need for extra mid-week practices; everyone is to get their upcoming schedules to Victor.
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