I hope you’re all rested and recovered after Saturday’s shenanigans. It was a scorcher, weather-wise, but also, we were ON FIRE! We played really well, and every one of us should be proud of what we accomplished.<\/p>\n
You did well to preserve your chops – our second half sounded just as fresh as the first half. While the pieces weren’t as technically challenging as in the first half, they did require control, dynamically speaking.<\/p>\n
I’ve been on your case for years now about The Stripper. We are still not pulling back enough in order to make our crescendos successful. We end up getting louder – LOUDER – LOUDER. <\/strong>Not only is this hard on our chops, but it results in a less controlled sound. This happened on Saturday (we peaked too soon, then had nowhere to go for the piece’s climax). I have some ideas for this, which we’ll work on at our final rehearsal (I’ll program this piece for the Bourkevale gig – this will be a bit of an easier set list simply because we usually have some guests sitting in with us and it will be after a break in rehearsals).<\/p>\n Yes, there were moments where we weren’t together, but we recovered from them really well – and that’s what our preparation is really about. Mistakes, miscounting, etc, are going to happen – there will never be a perfect performance. The key is in how we recover from them, and whether we can cover it up enough so that the audience doesn’t realise it. I think we’ve achieved that.<\/p>\n This was one of our strongest Victoria Beach outings – I’m so proud of all of you. You put in an amazing effort!<\/p>\n Many thanks to the Woolisons, for hosting us once again. I had a lovely time at the barbecue, and I hope that everyone who attended felt likewise.<\/p>\n It was a great opportunity for me to watch and listen to you interact. I was really impressed because it looked a little bit like a family reunion – there seemed to be a lot of mingling, people were sharing from plates\/coolers, etc. It really warmed the cockles of my heart to see those bonds outside of our playing. It’s easy to tell from our playing that we’re a team, but it was really nice to see that in action on the social side.<\/p>\n So, now we’re on the home stretch. Rehearsal this week is in preparation for 2 concerts in a row: Wednesday, August 22 at Concordia Village, and Monday, August 27 at Shaftesbury. (Details will be sent under separate cover – one for each gig, but the program will be identical for both).<\/p>\n Without further ado, here’s what’s on deck for Wednesday evening:<\/p>\n 51 \u2013 Entrance of the Gladiators I hope to see you all tomorrow!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I hope you’re all rested and recovered after Saturday’s shenanigans. It was a scorcher, weather-wise, but also, we were ON FIRE! We played really well, and every one of us should be proud of what we accomplished. You did well to preserve your chops – our second half sounded just as fresh as the first … Continue reading “Rehearsal Plan – August 15, 2018”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mbmillenniumband.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mbmillenniumband.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mbmillenniumband.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mbmillenniumband.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mbmillenniumband.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=516"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.mbmillenniumband.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":517,"href":"http:\/\/www.mbmillenniumband.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516\/revisions\/517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mbmillenniumband.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mbmillenniumband.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mbmillenniumband.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n8 \u2013 Themes Like Old Times
\n66 \u2013 Arctic Fire
\n5 \u2013 Broadway Journey
\n54 \u2013 The Drunken Sailor
\n63 \u2013 Hallelujah
\n65 \u2013 Moana
\n7 \u2013 Swing the Mood<\/p>\n