Weekend Updatia
Sep. 17th, 2007 10:49 amKind of busy weekend but not nearly so busy as the next two look to be...
Saturday Rachel had karate and soccer. After dropping off Rachel, Deb and I met up to sign our names and take care of some other business. I headed home, we ate lunch, and just as we were finishing,
noone234 arrived for band practice. Our drummer-to-be was held up at w*#k, and couldn't make it - I did get word today that he had hauled his drums out of storage, dusted them off, and found absolutely no rats nests within them, so that's a good thing!
We worked on the Signature Tune a wee bit.
noone234 had music for 2 and a half bars more than the others - just alto sax - and we had intended to keep everybody playing through it. We orchestrated a bit for trumpet and clarinet, but Rachel was getting increasingly agitated, saying she couldn't play it, and so forth, tears streaming down her cheeks. She went in and out of the house a few times, then came back out. I pulled her aside (as aside as you can get when you're less than half a dozen feet from the other two) and finally realized what was bothering her. She didn't think it sounded good.
The half bar that
noone234 had at the end called for a call-and-response treatment, so I suggested Rachel and Justin sit out for the intervening two bars.
noone234 and Justin do the call-and-response bit for two bars after that, and then come together for the next bar. Rachel accents the the second note for both calls and both responses, and also accents through the last bar.
Soccer happened at that time, and then
noone234, Justin, and I worked on the Breezy Tune, coming up with a bit more marimba and bass (having also switched from grand piano to the former instrument for Justin's part).
noone234 then grabbed his bass, Justin switched from marimba to synth, and I traded bass for guitar.
noone234 learned the remainder of the intro/bridge/outro riff and the pre-chorus. That leaves the verse, chorus, and tag ending parts as well as learning the arrangement. We found that Justin's suspended fourth triads were too much. Actually, I realized that before, but I put it down to him swapping back to the 1-3-5, which he was prone to do. They clashed too much with the guitar holding out the sus4 chords for a half note each. I realized this when he "came up with something else to play", which, when I asked him what it was, in typical musician fashion, he admitted he had no clue what he had played because he accidentally and quite randomly screwed up. A few tries, and we found that if he arpeggiated his sus 4 triads, they fit and the sound was complimentary with the guitar and bass lines.
As we were starting to get cold out on the porch - Justin went in for a sweatshirt,
noone234 grabbed his jacket - we decided to pack up, as there wasn't enough time to really get into something else before dinner. After dinner, we relaxed with some martial arts drills, and we determined that some future band practices might include sparring and other less musical practices.
While we played out on the porch, Mr. B proceeded to get his peanut butter in his chocolate, so to speak, except where peanut butter = sand and chocolate = water. He was really happy to just mess about in the sand/water table we got him for his birthday. Unfortunately, I realized late yesterday, that he's not going to get much time with it this year - frost warnings are already being called for our area.
Sunday, I felt blah. A cold has really been bearing down on me for the last few workdays last week, and I pretty much just sat around, and for five or so hours, did this. If you haven't already, follow through on that other Top Sekrit post and let me know what you think over on that post.
Saturday Rachel had karate and soccer. After dropping off Rachel, Deb and I met up to sign our names and take care of some other business. I headed home, we ate lunch, and just as we were finishing,
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We worked on the Signature Tune a wee bit.
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The half bar that
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Soccer happened at that time, and then
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As we were starting to get cold out on the porch - Justin went in for a sweatshirt,
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While we played out on the porch, Mr. B proceeded to get his peanut butter in his chocolate, so to speak, except where peanut butter = sand and chocolate = water. He was really happy to just mess about in the sand/water table we got him for his birthday. Unfortunately, I realized late yesterday, that he's not going to get much time with it this year - frost warnings are already being called for our area.
Sunday, I felt blah. A cold has really been bearing down on me for the last few workdays last week, and I pretty much just sat around, and for five or so hours, did this. If you haven't already, follow through on that other Top Sekrit post and let me know what you think over on that post.