10th October 2008

The highlight of the day is the Guitar Meeting with Marcin in my sister's flat.

The space is ready, waiting:



There's some delay, but eventually we are ready with guitars at 18:45

Work on the right hand. Metronome at 65.

Begin with the whole notes and gradually increase the speed until the eight notes.

Division of Attention:

- alternating between quarter notes and eight notes, change every 2 bars of 4
- counting aloud
- tap feet pattern with the metronome: LRR LRR LRR LRR ...

After 45 minutes of this 10 minutes break.

Repertoire: The Eye of the Needle

Lead part: Marcin
Bass part: Jacek

After 'trying' to play the whole piece few times we move to another approach - to take a small piece of the whole part, like the first pattern consisting of 13 notes and discharge it with quality.

We practice slowly - quarter notes in BPM 60/70

We play together, and then one of us moves to off-beats. We both give it a shot.

The meeting ends at 20:50 It was good to meet and surely an opportunity to see where we are and take it from there! Two GC Aphorisms immediately spring to mind at the end of this meeting:

We begin where we are.

A quality is ungovernable by number.