late practice

Post 86 of 90.

I spent the bulk of this evening going over alternate guitar parts to pieces I already know, including Intergalactic Boogie Express and Eye of the Needle. For EotN, my aim was to work on playing these alternate parts while tapping my foot at the same time. Very difficult. I had been talking to the team about this over email and felt like I needed to get my hands dirty with it, even if I won't be playing those parts in performance. My hunch about things wanting to speed up on the tags to the main figures to EotN seemed to confirm itself. I was tapping my foot, but I felt uncertain which note of each tag would need to coincide with a foot tap. Because of this uncertainty, it was like that part of the figure was detaching itself and floating free in time, only to then rush to get to the next iteration where a feeling of rhythmic security was waiting.

Yeah.

I also looked at some ideas for some solo picking this coming Friday at the workplace lunch jam/performance thing.

No rehearsal with Don today. I called Don last night to discuss it. Matt would be unavailable to work, and with all the traveling to Chicago, I'm a bit burned out on the driving thing. I've put a lot of miles on my car in this pursuit, and right now it would just be nice to sit it out for a bit until the next step makes itself clearer.

Speaking of which, we also discussed possibilities for laying a groundwork for the entire team to come to this area to perform. This might necessitate some "fractalized" team-within-the-team performing as a prelude. Other members of the team in Illinois and Wisconsin would be driving a long way, and I feel like it would really need to be worth their while for them to make the sacrifice to come down here. There's much more of a base emerging in Chicago for playing out, while things in the Dayton-Cincinnati are perpetually on the edge without ever quite getting there.