Extracurricular group workout 13

A Tuning the Air Journal

Wednesday, December 6, 2011 – Extracurricular group workout 13

A rolling quartet assembled this afternoon. Curt, Jaxie, Carl and Mary Beth began. For a bit of fun, we ran the Bach Prelude with only 4/5 of the circulated parts. These little excursions are amusing at the very least, but always educational to be sure. From there we went directly on to the Fugue, which will be debuted on Thursday. Jaxie and Carl have the most extensive parts, and we took the opportunity to run their parts as many times as possible. For Mary Beth and me it was largely a matter of counting, in order to make our entrances at the right times. Identifying some problem areas, we focused on these and then expanded the selections until we were back to running the entire piece. We ended the first hour with several passes using Garage Band to fill in the missing parts.

Carl had to depart for a job, and as he was leaving Greg arrived.

Jax, Curt and MB needed a break from Bach, so we looked at a number of other pieces from the setlist, largely working with the metronome, identifying areas of concern and addressing them. “Connecticut Yankee”, “Slow Burn”, “Fallout” and “Tango Apasionato”. We were considering a run through “Walrus”, but realized that time was running short. Greg needed at least a couple of runs through the Fugue, so we moved to that. Some final discussion of fingering options for some particularly dodgy passages, and then we called it a day.

Tomorrow, by hook of crook, it gets performed.