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The three of us got together tonight for our impending show. We need to really tighten up a number of the tunes before go live.
First on the block was Brazillian Café. We've changed the end, trying to get clever. Originally, the song ended with a syncopated rhythm (duh-duh-duh, duh-duh-duh). Brett hit on the idea of doing rounds. So, now what we're trying to do now is make diminishing rounds. We take the first mark with all six hits, then one of us solos. Then, we play the marks again, leaving off one note and someone else solos. This goes around until the song ends (duh-duh-duh, duh-duh-duh; solo; duh-duh-duh, duh-duh; solo; duh-duh-duh, duh; solo; etc). But, having played just the six and ending, it's a bit hard to change direction, figure out what you're going to do for a solo with less than a bar to play and still hit all the marks.
Having played the Café way too many times, we moved on to Soho. As I figured we might do, we've rewritten Soho. Not only was it way too busy to start with, we're down a guitarist from the original version. So, now we've made more into a traditional style Latin tune, with a 3-2 clave feel to it. We are extending the groove quite a bit, and generally letting the song breathe more. I think it's an improvement, but it's going to depend on the guitar arrangements.
Finally, we breezed through Ripple a few times. Mostly because it's one of our newer ones, but I think it's mostly in the bag at this point.
Posted by Casper at October 14, 2004 09:05 PM