The Cafe Trio grown to Octet down to Sextet

[chadders]

A really good afternoon playing plus some fabulous bannoffee pie and lemon drizzle cake Wonderful

 

[trimmy]

plus some fabulous bannoffee pie and lemon drizzle cake Wonderful

Rub it in why don’t you

 

[Jeanette]

Rub it in why don’t you

Better still @chadders took your and Nick's share home

Jx

 

[trimmy]

Better still @chadders took your and Nick's share home

Jx

You could have brought them with you tomorrow

 

[Jeanette]

You could have brought them with you tomorrow

Wouldn't travel well - fresh cream

 

[Jeanette]

Healthy treat for today's playing with the sextet, chocolate banana muffins

Jx

 

[Jeanette]

We had a really good session again today, we really are improving individually and as a group. Despite being one down @tenorviol did a sterling job to ensure we had sufficient parts to make sense of the tunes and keep us on track..

I really do enjoy these sessions and feel like I've really worked at the end of them

Thanks guys

Jx

 

[Tenor Viol]

I can't tell you all how pleased and happy I was with the effort and performance from everyone today. I'm not a music teacher or a tutor... but I have been round the block a few times one way or another... The guys played right through pieces which they hadn't seen for a while and which in the past they had many struggles with. They gave a credible rendition of a new piece which they were sight-reading and got to grips with some thing we'd only done once before. The big thing for me is that they're listening and hearing what is going on around them and sorting problems out for themselves. Doesn't stop me worrying about whether I am best qualified to exhort and cajole....

Today's motivational technique: get it right or I sing in Italian...

 

[Jeanette]

Doesn't stop me worrying about whether I am best qualified to exhort and cajole....

Qualified enough, you do well to put up with us and have the patience of a saint, we are also are lucky to have @chadders as stand in when your busy musical life takes you elsewhere

Today's motivational technique: get it right or I sing in Italian...

I knew you were going to sing, as I said it helped my timing so much more too...

Jx

 

[Tenor Viol]

I knew you were going to sing, as I said it helped my timing so much more too...

Jx

It's the fear factor...

 

[Vetinari]

I find the hardest parts are keeping timing correct and playing qiet enough so we can hear Jeanette. Ron says it's because my bari has a bigger hole than J's sop.

 

[Tenor Viol]

... sort of...

 

[Jeanette]

It's almost too nice to think of being inside for today's get together but some summery butterfly buns might help!!

Jx

 

[Tenor Viol]

Sigh... I have to be in Birmingham today for orchestra rehearsal, so you've not got me today. Behave or it's double diminished 7th arpeggios next time and I really must arrange that Stravinsky... (I'v been thinking of arranging the opening section of the Rite of Spring for a while - might do it if @MandyH visits and arrange the bassoon solo for bari).

View: https://youtu.be/FFPjFjUonX8

 

[trimmy]

It's almost too nice to think of being inside for today's get together but some summery butterfly buns might help!!

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Jx

View: https://youtu.be/bWkULcx0Ck0

 

[Jeanette]

Have we tempted you Mr T

Could be back to trio at this rate!!

Jx

 

[Jeanette]

We were a trio but we had a great time and actually played some pieces rather well.

It's not the bari that drowns me out it's the pesky tenors!!

We played:
Oh I'm a Poor Wayfarin Stranger
Bare Necessities
Groovy Kind of Love
Will he Tell
Don't sit under the apple tree- first time, went well
Waltz No 2
Dambusters March - needs some work
How Deep is Your love - needs more work
and finished off with Plank Plank Plunk

All in all a good workout, thanks @Vetinari and @chadders I really enjoyed it

Jx

 

[trimmy]

It's not the bari that drowns me out it's the pesky tenors!!

I’ve said that all along, bad loud tenors

 

[Jeanette]

My PPT was sounding good today too, we all blended really well. Probably because@chadders has PPT too!!

Jx

 

[trimmy]

Suppose I’ll have to dig mine out then