Performance Team Rehearsal

A Tuning the Air Journal

Monday, October 10, 2011 – Performance Team Rehearsal

All guitarists present and accounted for. The oboist is out this week.

The first segment was dedicated to the B Minor prelude. We worked with analyzing the form and identified 5 statements/phrases/sections, ranging from 7-16 bars, so that we can isolate and focus on them as necessary in practice. We looked at each phrase in detail, with the metronome, and connected them back into the whole.

“I Am The Walrus” was next. It had occurred to me after the last rehearsal that we had somehow overlooked the “Ho Ho Ho Hee Hee Hee Ha Ha Ha” in the third verse, so we began with coming up with a way to incorporate that. The string/horn section is back to slide this week (without sufficient prep time, that had been dropped last week), so we worked all of the sections to give them a workout. A lot of focus on the various sound effects, in particular the second interlude (“sitting in an English garden…”) and the final “Egg Man” section through the Outro. Several runthroughs with and without the metronome.

For the rest of the rehearsal, we touched on details. Sgt Bones presented a possible substitute for “Odd Socks”, which needs Darlene’s oboe, for this week’s performance. We did some tightening up on the intro and cascade sections of “Slow Burn” and then ran the piece. We reviewed the zithers for the encore, and tested some variations. I also presented a zither to be used in the opening of “Vashon Ferry”. And, an interesting new twist for “Larks” was explored, and approved.

It is going to be an interesting show.