Guitar Circle of Poland Weekend - Saturday

7:30 Morning Sitting.

Breakfast.

Guitar Circle at 9 o'clock:

4th Primary. Begin: pay attention to the feet, top of the head, the right elbow & the right hand. Connect the elbow & the hand using attention.

This leads into GC Theme II: Aspiration. Distribute the parts.

Intergalactic Boogie Express.

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10:45

Rhythm work on empty strings: play 16th notes and skip one: the last note in the sequence of four, the 3rd note, the 2nd note and the first note.

Stay on skipping the first note. This leads to work on 4 bars of 4 sections of the Eye of the Needle bass line.

Work on sections of the piece in the reverse order, focusing on small pieces of work, aiming to do them well.

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11:45

Thrak: rock'n'roll part. Playing on 1 is too much, unless we define playing on 1 as: bang the strings anywhere between 5 & 2, then we're quite good at it.

12.20 Split into small groups.

Lunch



Guitar Circle at 15:00

Go through the setlist:

C whole tone circulation in 3 registers
Intergalactic Boogie Express
Aspiration
Beehir

Then Asturias, define the parts in the middle section.

New circulation: play any note that is not natural.

Altana (new piecem Tychy trio).

Thrak. There is a little breakthrough with the r'n'r part. Once it's pointed out that one person doesn't have it and drops 1& 3 and moves to 1, we move on.

In general, we have timing issues.

17:10 Small group practice. Eye of the Needle bass & Tt pieces.

Dinner. Marek cooks all meals for us during this weekend. The food is very good, and keeps us going.

20.45 Open rehearsal for 3 invited guests.

Go through the set list. Swiftly play through some pieces, and spend more time to look at Thrak & the Eye of the Needle.

One of the guests commented later that he had a hard time during our long work on Thrak. He has my full sympathy.

With this open rehearsal we left the middle.

Something is available, we use the opportunity and spend half an hour working on Thrak & TEOTN. We moved forward.