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Brett was able to join us tonight, now all healthy and feeling better. We started off going over some of the older tunes (Sol Azteca and Brazilian Café), and we came to the somewhat shocking conclusion that we're a little rusty on the tunes that we don't play all that much. It took us some time to remember who was soloing when and what the blocking order for each song was. But we figured it out and then worked on the older songs for a bit (which is a good thing, considering the up and coming show we have).
We also revisited some of the newer tunes as well. We went over Red Leaves a few times (it's coming right along) and then Indigo. We're having a spot of trouble with that last one, though. We have a nice run for a B section that ends in a chord-based stop break. The problem is that the run ends on 6, whereas the chord stop break needs to start on 2 or 5. For now, we're letting the drums fill in for 1 and then starting the break on 2, but it doesn't feel quite right. I think we'll get it, though.
After a short break, we introduced Brett to Five. He seemed to like it, focusing on the way we are doing 15/8. I think the direction he was starting to go would be to play the beat as a pretty straight forward 6/8, letting the snare go to 1 on the back side of a 15/8 pair. I kind of like how it works, but I'm not so sure if it would be approachable to non-musicians. I guess we'll see.
Posted by Casper at June 27, 2004 09:22 PM