Meeting attendees: Victory, Chris, Glenn, and Mary Beth
We began by singing C major together. Then, did a “sing” of C-D-C-E-C-F, etc. These exercises were done ascending and descending the scale. We seemed to have the most trouble with the E to G range, so we focused on that.
Then, we did C major in four octaves as/des with a few false starts but completed shortly.
We did Victor’s exercises: (1) reversing the direction of C major by playing a note 2X, and (2) reversing the direction of playing the scale ascending or descending by playing a triplet of the next two notes (a turn around pattern). Then we combined these two exercises.
We worked on Askesis. Victor noted that it is important to practice your part with others who play your part. We don’t do this very often in the circle. Also, it’s good to practice plugged in. We played Askesis through once and then did parts.
We worked on triads less successfully. More struggle here. But we need to have this down as part of our prep for the course in August.
We practiced Driving Force parts. We were about to work on Victor’s piece but didn’t because folks need some work on their parts.
Next time: Be prepared to do triads in the middle of the fret board.
Minutes submitted by MBAH, 7/1/07 (had the minutes done last week but it took me a while to find my blogger password)
