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The day gig kept me at work way longer than I would have liked. So, I didn't make it out to rehearsal until about an hour after it was scheduled to start. When I got there, Shahin and Brett had been working on a new tune as well as changing the arrangement to Talking Strings.
Shahin has added a section to the bridge, mostly a fast and busy scale run starting from E. It works pretty well. When he does that, I try to hit a big, ringing note, just to stay out of his way while giving him a big room in which to move. The new part is altering the transitions (natch), which may not be the best idea just before a show, but we're going to go with it anyway.
Other than that, we just worked on a few of our problem children (Red Leaves, Soho), and then revisited Sol Azteca. Sol isn't a particularly hard song, but when Brett and I were looking at each other trying to coach each other into remembering how it even went, that's usually a sign that we need to at least touch on it once. I changed my line for Sol, though. I took it from a slap piece to a finger style tumbaó. Brett picked up on my change and we turned a semi funky straight ahead tune to a pretty hard Latin feel song; I can easily see people up and dancing to this one now.
Posted by Casper at July 28, 2004 09:44 PM