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Minutes Rehearsal 28 October 2014

Posted on 30 October, 2014 by Wendy — No Comments ↓

Chair: RM Attendees: DC WT SE MM MS LS JL KM JB Apologies: DD Item Action 1 Warm up/blending by Lou – some effective renditions, keep it up LS 2 Reach Out – as warm up – sounding good, leads need to rehearse together to get phrasing/blending right WT/MS/RM 3 Moonlight Serenade – sounding good, agreed it should stay, well done KM 4 Money Money Money – Duncan worked on dynamics to improve, almost there 5 I Can See Clearly Now – Matt seems happy with it, bass fine so just needs other parts to be bolder in entrances 6 Continue reading Minutes Rehearsal 28 October 2014→

Minutes Rehearsal 21 October 2014

Posted on 23 October, 2014 by Wendy — No Comments ↓

Chair: Wendy Attendees: JB, DC, DD, SE, JL, KM, MM, RM, JP, LS, MS, WT Apologies: JL Item Action 1 Warmup exercise Robin led a warmup exercise designed to get the vocal chords going and prepare the way for the blending exercise. Robin 2 Blending Exercise Louli led a very useful blending exercise in pairs working together on blending on Reach Out. Later we established it would be useful to use Duan Nollaig as a blending exercise too. All 3 Preacher Man Duncan took us through several sing-throughs of this which got progressively better but there are still areas we Continue reading Minutes Rehearsal 21 October 2014→

Minutes, All Day Rehearsal, 12 October 2014

Posted on 12 October, 2014 by Wendy — No Comments ↓

Chairs: Janette, Kathleen, Matt, Robin Attendees: JB, DD, SE (half), JL, LS, MM, MS, KM, RM, WT Apols: DC, JP Femme-La Dit (Wendy) Introduced idea of claps/snaps as first verse or punctuation, depending on how the rest goes. Seems to help with the timing. Slowed pace down a bit. Progress hampered by chaps not knowing their parts. For next time everyone please to be OFF BOOK on this – it’s a short song, and we need to spend the time on fitting the bits together and getting the percussion in properly and not on how the tune goes. Next appearance Continue reading Minutes, All Day Rehearsal, 12 October 2014→

Minutes Rehearsal 16 September 2014

Posted on 28 September, 2014 by Wendy — No Comments ↓

Chair: Sebastian Present: JB, DC, DD, SE, KM, MM, RM, JP, LS, MS, WT Apologies: JL We ran through the songs for the Penge gig (Blue Skies, Sloop John B, You are the 1, In this heart, May I suggest, When will I see you again, Java Jive) and we really really needed to do so. My apologies for the misunderstanding. I thought we had more time at Robin’s for polishing and a proper run through. But time is very limited on Sat. AOB 1) Penge (Sat 20 Sep) We decided to do a run-through as soon as most people Continue reading Minutes Rehearsal 16 September 2014→

Minutes Rehearsal 2 September 2014

Posted on 4 September, 2014 by Wendy — No Comments ↓

Chair: Louli Present – DC, DD, MS, MM, JP, WT, RM, LS, KM Apologies: SE, JB, JL Warm up: ahem, ahem we started 7.15pm as only 5 of us were there, but good use of those first 15 mins by certain peeps and great patience by others, thank you Eventual warm up: Louli suggested we felt (hands on each others back) while singing blending notes. She has a couple of blending exercises she’d like to try out next rehearsal Java Jive – really lovely considering there were only 8 of us the time. Duan Nolig: (2nd outing) Wendy went through Continue reading Minutes Rehearsal 2 September 2014→