The Lefty Valdez Band practice updatia
Sep. 1st, 2007 09:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ellyssianNo drums or percussion, alas.
We did, however, go over Sorrow's End (Chris on bass, Justin on synth, me on guitar). Justin (pipe organ) and I (guitar) demonstrated the more complex verse riff in Forgotten Royalty. We did The Kraken, with Chris playing bass, Justin playing grand piano, and me doing my thing on the guitar.
For the jazzier portion of the program, we worked on the still officially nameless Dm Mellow Jazz Tune, with Rachel taking the lead on clarinet, Justin imitating the trumpet on the keys (his horn is in the shop trying to get the Valdez-nickname-earning stuck valve un-), and me doing clean 7th chords on the guitar. We did a few rounds of the equally nameless Signature Tune (which we're now calling it, as "First Tune We Wrote With All The Horns Going Dun-Da-Duh" is getting a wee bit awkward), but with no new material added (Rachel, clarinet; Justin keys-as-trumpet; Chris, alto sax; me, fretless bass). While goofing off with that, we accidentally came up with yet another truly unnamed tune, this one codenamed Breezy. Justin plays grand piano on this 5/4 wonder, as I speed along on the fretless, and Chris is writing the alto sax part. We'll come up with a clarinet part after we get a bit further with it.
We're thinking of having Chris play his bass on the Dm Mellow Jazz Tune, but haven't tried anything with it yet. We've got to get additional parts for the tunes that are complete songs - Sorrow's End and The Kraken - that way we can get through an entire actual, real, live song. The three other bits will take longer as they are being entirely written from scratch, so we have no clue where they're going next. =)
The Kraken is the easiest of the two, as we're just arranging the tune - and by that, I mean we're playing it pretty much verbatim, except for jumping up an octave or two here or there. Sorrow's End was written in 1990-1991 while I was working at a retail store in Lexington. Used to have to "stand guard" over the parking lot for my first hour or two of work, as no one was supposed to park there until after we opened. So I would stand there, warn people off once in a while, be ignored most of the time, and, while doing so one chilly morning, I wrote the entire tune in my head. There's lyrics somewhere, and I'll likely post them here if I can find them...
We did, however, go over Sorrow's End (Chris on bass, Justin on synth, me on guitar). Justin (pipe organ) and I (guitar) demonstrated the more complex verse riff in Forgotten Royalty. We did The Kraken, with Chris playing bass, Justin playing grand piano, and me doing my thing on the guitar.
For the jazzier portion of the program, we worked on the still officially nameless Dm Mellow Jazz Tune, with Rachel taking the lead on clarinet, Justin imitating the trumpet on the keys (his horn is in the shop trying to get the Valdez-nickname-earning stuck valve un-), and me doing clean 7th chords on the guitar. We did a few rounds of the equally nameless Signature Tune (which we're now calling it, as "First Tune We Wrote With All The Horns Going Dun-Da-Duh" is getting a wee bit awkward), but with no new material added (Rachel, clarinet; Justin keys-as-trumpet; Chris, alto sax; me, fretless bass). While goofing off with that, we accidentally came up with yet another truly unnamed tune, this one codenamed Breezy. Justin plays grand piano on this 5/4 wonder, as I speed along on the fretless, and Chris is writing the alto sax part. We'll come up with a clarinet part after we get a bit further with it.
We're thinking of having Chris play his bass on the Dm Mellow Jazz Tune, but haven't tried anything with it yet. We've got to get additional parts for the tunes that are complete songs - Sorrow's End and The Kraken - that way we can get through an entire actual, real, live song. The three other bits will take longer as they are being entirely written from scratch, so we have no clue where they're going next. =)
The Kraken is the easiest of the two, as we're just arranging the tune - and by that, I mean we're playing it pretty much verbatim, except for jumping up an octave or two here or there. Sorrow's End was written in 1990-1991 while I was working at a retail store in Lexington. Used to have to "stand guard" over the parking lot for my first hour or two of work, as no one was supposed to park there until after we opened. So I would stand there, warn people off once in a while, be ignored most of the time, and, while doing so one chilly morning, I wrote the entire tune in my head. There's lyrics somewhere, and I'll likely post them here if I can find them...
