Intensive preparations

Catford, London

London Guitar Ensemble - meeting IV

Today we meet at the new place in Catford:



The fifth chair is for Marek who joined in the preparations for the performance. 60% of the team is now Polish.

9: 55 - The Practice of Doing Nothing.

TR leads the meeting.

Session 1: The Primaries (Right and Left Hand) & the fretboard knowledge (C major)
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Session 2: Learning new repertoire & circulations

Session 3: Old & new material.

Session 4: Define the sitting arrangement, run through some of the pieces and learn one more piece.

We worked for about 8 hours today.

The next meeting is on Thursday.

(written by JK)

LGE Evening Meeting

LGE, Meeting III
Thursday, 11th February 2010


Today we meet in the evening, for a change. We did the Sitting Exercise in the morning, and acknowledged the others and the meeting at the end of it.

Comments about the little performance from the last week are invited. The word Presence comes up.

An hour of work with the Primaries lead by TR

Careful work - right & left hand, fretboard knowledge.

T works on our hands.

*** Coffee break***

Play through Crumb of Glass while standing.

JK presents a piece Beehir. We learn it in almost hour and a half.

The next meeting will be in over 10 days. Two of us will be attending the Project in Germany next week.

The current LGE Repertoire:

Experiment in Terror
Crumb of Glass
Beehir


(written by JK)

Preparation - Meeting II

LGE Meeting II
Saturday 6th February 2010

The train has been cancelled, so one of us is running late. We wait.

10:45 - Sitting.

We state our aims for this project, and then move straight into 2 hours guitar work! Attentive, well paced and with the right level of intensity for this time duration. TR corrects our hands while we practice:

Right hand / Left hand / C major (3rd Primary)

*** Lunch break. We also have coffee and chocolate brownies home made by MB to make us fat ***

Session 2: Repertoire work lead by TR.

We conclude with the short performance of this material for Tania & Ivor, spontaneously called by JK. LGE responds to this and deliver honourably:

C major Circulation

Crumb of Glass

The Experiment in Terror

There's a sense of completing the first period of preparations. We can move on now!

4:10 - Completion. We leave the comments about our performance for later, to keep the experience fresh (put the money in the bank).

(written by JK)