Jam Report #67: 1/20/08
Jan. 26th, 2008 11:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
annathepiperAnd, even though it's a week late, a short Jam Report to cover last weekend's Jam.
The main highlight of this Jam was![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
cflute and technoshaman bringing their friend tibicina along, since she'd come up from California to attend Conflikt. She made the fourth flute player in the room, which was kind of neat--but as with previous iterations of this particular jamming group, I kept to the guitar and left the fluting to Dara and Callie and Rebecca. I had no brain for much else besides holding my guitar for occasional strumming and smiling sleepily at what the others were doing.
Though it must be said that as soon as I found out that Rebecca was also a Great Big Sea fan, I perked right up for a bit. It's amazing and funny how fast the "ZOMG you not only know who GBS are but actually like them too?!" reaction will zap some life into me, even when I'm drooping from several weeks of radiation therapy. ;) We milked that for quite a bit of pleasant chatting before we finally got down to the business of playing stuff.
And since I was pretty much useless for driving the song selection, we had a lot of playing around with Dara's pieces this time. With three, count 'em, three flute players on hand, we learned that "Mononoke Neko" works surprisingly well as a round. There was interesting geeking about who actually ought to be playing what instrument, especially since Callie's were more tunable than Dara's are.
We played with "Cherry Tree Station" as well, which gave Dara the chance to try to explain to Callie and Rebecca what she envisioned for a multi-part rendering of this song. That was very fun to listen to even if I didn't have anything to contribute, between Dara doing the familiar bits on her instrument, Callie doing deeper and more sustained things on her big flute to symbolize the rhythms of the trains, and Rebecca dropping in interesting little improved bits to symbolize the more incidental noises of the station.
I did get hauled back into playing a bit again though since, with another GBS fan in attendance, we kinda had to do some GBS. So we did both "Trois Navires de Ble" (which seems to have settled into A at least when sung by me) and "Lukey" (which we did in G, but which I really also need to be doing in A).
I think it was shortly after that that we called it Pie, and I must say that the raspberry lemonade pie I picked up from the Thriftway was super-tasty.
Next jam: one week from tomorrow, which will be Sunday the 3rd. If all goes well I should have more brain back by then!
The main highlight of this Jam was
cflute and technoshaman bringing their friend tibicina along, since she'd come up from California to attend Conflikt. She made the fourth flute player in the room, which was kind of neat--but as with previous iterations of this particular jamming group, I kept to the guitar and left the fluting to Dara and Callie and Rebecca. I had no brain for much else besides holding my guitar for occasional strumming and smiling sleepily at what the others were doing.Though it must be said that as soon as I found out that Rebecca was also a Great Big Sea fan, I perked right up for a bit. It's amazing and funny how fast the "ZOMG you not only know who GBS are but actually like them too?!" reaction will zap some life into me, even when I'm drooping from several weeks of radiation therapy. ;) We milked that for quite a bit of pleasant chatting before we finally got down to the business of playing stuff.
And since I was pretty much useless for driving the song selection, we had a lot of playing around with Dara's pieces this time. With three, count 'em, three flute players on hand, we learned that "Mononoke Neko" works surprisingly well as a round. There was interesting geeking about who actually ought to be playing what instrument, especially since Callie's were more tunable than Dara's are.
We played with "Cherry Tree Station" as well, which gave Dara the chance to try to explain to Callie and Rebecca what she envisioned for a multi-part rendering of this song. That was very fun to listen to even if I didn't have anything to contribute, between Dara doing the familiar bits on her instrument, Callie doing deeper and more sustained things on her big flute to symbolize the rhythms of the trains, and Rebecca dropping in interesting little improved bits to symbolize the more incidental noises of the station.
I did get hauled back into playing a bit again though since, with another GBS fan in attendance, we kinda had to do some GBS. So we did both "Trois Navires de Ble" (which seems to have settled into A at least when sung by me) and "Lukey" (which we did in G, but which I really also need to be doing in A).
I think it was shortly after that that we called it Pie, and I must say that the raspberry lemonade pie I picked up from the Thriftway was super-tasty.
Next jam: one week from tomorrow, which will be Sunday the 3rd. If all goes well I should have more brain back by then!