Rehearsal, more piano, more stuff

Tuesday's rehearsal went well. I felt a little weird behind the kit at first but by the time we had run through a few things I felt comfortable. We had three deps, all of whom did an incredible job reading through the (quite tricky) tunes and there were some really nice solos too. I am much more relaxed about Sunday's gig now. With the seven piece band I always try and tread a fine line between a) trying to stay out of the way and just create a nice foundation for people to play over and b) trying to really interact, play in the moment and make things happen. Time will tell which one of these approaches I will lean towards on Sunday.

www.myspace.com/alteregoseptet has details of the gig.

I did quite a bit of piano work yesterday. I'm still concentrating on the Kirnberger at a very slow tempo. I'm also running through the other four classical pieces and a few tunes in the ABRSM grade one jazz piano book.

I bought myself a CD of the pieces and found it interesting to hear the tunes played 'properly' for a change. I also had a big look at a lot of piano music yesterday and decided I will try and work through some more Grade One stuff before embarking on Grade Two. I tried to get the 'old' Grade One books yesterday but the shop had sold out so if you're reading this Andy... bit of an exchange?