Meeting I - 13th September 2009

Sunday, 13th September 2009
Lower Sydenham, London

Meeting I

Pawel, Chris and Jacek are present.

09:30 - Morning Sitting.

10:05 - 10:45 - Guitar Work

J leads:

Any note Circulation.

2nd Primary:.

Metronome at 63 bpm. Various time subdivisions (from the whole notes to the eight notes) including the Division of Attention exercise while playing quarter notes:

Alternate between playing on the beat for 1 bar of 4 and playing on the off-beat for 1 bar of 4, while counting 3 bars of 4.

A good challenge.

2nd Primary extends to gradually introduced 4th Primary pattern:

DAAA EAAA GAAA gAAA

The main area for improvement: playing in time.


--- 5 minutes break ---


10:50 - 11:38

C leads:

Constant Release exercise on two middle strings in the seventh position.

We begin with playing the pattern of 6 notes.

Then extending it to 7 notes.

Good stuff. Something to work on and develop.

J leads:

Approach the first 12 bars of Tremolo. We play the parts according to where we are. I.e. some of us play just the basic 8 notes pattern.

There are few moments when we are actually in time.

The work completes at 11:38.

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We agree that meeting every two weeks is the way to go, and we commit to attending another 7 meetings. Then we can see what's next...

For me, we became the Circle in the moment when we decided to commit to it.