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Heya,

Sorry I wasn't able to make it last night, like a number of folk got held up 
at one of the shindings - enjoyable enough but not conducive to rehearsal 
time.

I took a couple of notes from Monday night's rehearsal;

** With or Without You - U2 **

Came together ok, need to slow tempo down - might be worth taking the chance 
to listen to it on You Tube to get a sense of the feel.

** Don't Stop Belevin' - Glee Version **

Also worked nicely but suggest we standardise on the Glee version (You Tube 
will find it) rather than the original one by Journey - they only real 
difference is the Glee version takes out a couple of instrumental bars here 
and there, this will be no bad thing in respect to audience enjoyment I 
suspect.  Key of E.

** Hallelujia - Leonard Cohen Version **

Again came together well.

We played a few other tunes earlier that worked well but I didn't note them 
down :(

What we did in Orlando that seemed to work well was get a Wiki page together 
with songs, keys and who would like to play what - we can then coalesce this 
into a set list/running order for Friday night.  

This level of formality might seem a little odd, but imho gives us a good 
balance between us enjoying ourselves as players versus actually providing a 
fun show to those listening.  Spinal Tap-esque free form jazz improvisations 
tick the former box, but not the latter.

Other thing I'd like to flag - couple of people had flagged playing one or two 
Jazz standards, possibly instrumental - I reckon this could be fun - thoughts 
?

Cheers,
Hugh





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