A most interesting session today. I found listening to the smaller
groups quite revealing. I think when we play as a full group we perhaps
don’t always take as much responsibility for our own part - it’s easy to
rely on our neighbours (that’s your neighbour in the class rather than
your neighbour at home … ) In the small group setting everyone has to
know where they are and be ready to come in with their solo or backing
etc.
I thought our extended version of Queen Of Sheba was
tremendous. Sadly, I didn’t record this. Top work from our rhythm
section and special thanks to Beau Barnard for stepping in at short
notice on the bass.
I did however record our three performances of Over There and they are now in the Dropbox. There is some lovely playing on these tracks.
Band 1 is Annie, Wook, Patrick, Stuart, Beau & Charlie
Band 2 is Ash, Kim, Jim, Mike, Beau & Charlie
Band 3 is Steve L, Steve F, Neil, Aprile, Beau & Charlie
Also, I had a go at home, doing a short solo over the iRealPro
backing I sent out last time. This is attached below and is in the
Dropbox. For me, the biggest challenge was the time. It was OK if I
stuck to slow moving notes but playing faster often made me lose my
place. I found by staying diatonic (in the major scale) most notes
sounded OK but I wanted to try some different colours on the ‘tweaked’
chords. This was hard - I had several goes at it! Thanks to Steve for
finding this piece.
Look forward to seeing you all on November 27th (I’ll get the new music out shortly)
Cheers Mark
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