Am really packing it in at the moment.
9:30am Rehearsed with Sean and James for our gigs at the Garden Bar Stage in Aotea Square this Friday. Sean has this amazing keyboard that has an iphone dock so you can play the synth apps. It sounds amazing. We gonna bust out some wicked electro-kraut-minimalist jams this Friday I suspect!!
12 - 2 Had a couple of students. Dean from the jazz course at Massey and Cameron form the jazz course at Auckland University. I'm getting them both familliar with the Table of Time and Allan Dawson's system of developing jazz drumming independence. Still working through the preliminary stages with the guys and its bending their heads. Brilliant stuff!! Set them both the task of establishing a research angle with their music listening and both have decided to start with Jack DeJohnette. I think we'll work backwards through his influences towards the origins of the drumset.
7 - 9.30 Poor Boy rehearsal with John Gibson our musical director and bassist Maree. We did some great detailing tonight, nailing down exactly whre the accents need to be on some of the tunes. We have our sitzprobe on Friday and it will be the bands first appearance in front of the dreaded Raymond Hawthawne. I hope he isn't too badly behaved.
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