Part 1 is maybe a little slow, which is one reason we're doing this -- to sharpen up the presentation. Part 2 is exciting, including the new "Frankensteining" thing. Part 3 is interesting because of the thing you did with the call and response.
Here's an electronic copy Draft Outline.doc (MS Word) of the draft outline below for ease of editing.
0:00
Initial Go Around 03:33
Matching the Chord vs. Just play one scale overall 06:33
The Pentatonic Scale 10:48
Showing the Pentatonic Scale 12:31
We love Pentatonic 12:44
All playing Major Pentatonic 15:12
Junk 16:23
The Minor Blues Pentatonic 17:17
Tuning Junk 18:15
All playing Blues Pentatonic 20:05
Showing the Minor Pentatonic
0:00
How to apply the Pent Scale to Fiddle tunes/contra
Contra as its own music 1:05
Choosing Far from Home
Getting chords
All learning tune 3:21
Example of Pent over chords
All Pent over chords
(need to talk about having the "tune in your head") 5:02
Phrasing
Exercise 7:11
Mimicking/Poetry 9:30
Following Chords -- talk over improv 11:16
Where do you begin? 11:50
Explaining Triads
Upper triadic notes 13:25
One more talk over improv 14:20
Questions -- playing with others
(Brother Rex) 15:59
Don't depart from the tune 17:06
Frankensteining
Having the tune in your head while you're playing 20:10
Contra is test for coherency of solo ideas
emotional ride 20:40
Little review
0:00
Emotional ride
There are things you can do with your melody that affect the dancers 0:23
Upbeat downbeat
This didn't go very far -- it's more about rhythm that melody? 0:55
Feet Rhythm on a single string 2:11
Following Dance Moves
Give them the space for a Balance and Swing 4:34
Paying thru a Swing
(Our hair flew out the back) 7:24
Learning Buffalo Gals 9:35
Improv over Buffalo Gals
(…you've been playing it for 20 minutes…)
D Pentatonic 11:23
Frankenstein Exercise -- call and response everyone play one phrase, then around the circle one at a time play the alternate phrase.
All Frankensteining -- sounds surprisingly cool 15:33
Investigating the 5 Chord
All Frankensteining w the 5 Chord 17:55
Julia Delany example solo 19:20
Shifting Pentatonics 23:05
Star of Munster
Practice what we learned today
(didn't point out difference in chord pattern between A and B) 25:45
Betsy Solo 26:44
Flute Solo 27:15
Mando Solo 27:54
Everybody Together 28:40
Thanks
