The Circle of Three in Tychy

11th August 2009, Tychy, Poland.

Guitar Meeting - Preparation for the upcoming Guitar Circle of Poland Weekend.

Present: Marek, Marcin W & Jacek

We begin at 20:10

2nd Primary on the A string in various time divisions. Underlying LRRLR pattern in the feet is too much, so move to LRR.

While the 8th notes on the guitar are going, and the pattern in the feet is being maintained, we circulate the count of 4 around. Then we circulate the count of 3 bars of 4.

Once this is accomplished, we drop the count and feet tap and move to 16th notes pattern: DAAAA. We fail at counting the metronome beat of 5.

Circulate C whole tone scale notes in 5 (on 1 & 4) There's a moment when it flows.

Work without the guitars. Clapping patterns in 5 (on 1 & 4) and in 7 (on 1, 4 & 6). We stand up, and integrate the patterns in the body. Then we divide into various groups and attempt to clap 5 against 7. It's slowly getting there.

Then we do the same for the duration of 7 bars of 5 and stop, then for the duration 14 bars of 5 and stop. The count is internal.

This session was probably too challenging, somebody got carried away.

--- 10 minutes Break ---

Work on the Repertoire:

Intergalactic Boogie Express - Marcin and Jacek on leads, Marek on bass. It needs personal practice and polishing, but it's groovy!

Behere - New arrangement, without the 5th cheesy part.

Sun Music - We miss the third guitar part, so this is maybe.

The feel when playing the pieces is good, we're getting there.

The Extended Summer Project work resonates. Something is available to us, and it feels we're making a good use of it. We have clearly moved on, and one indication of it is how we tune together...

The meeting completes at 22:20

After this we look at the space available for the weekend.