The Guitar Ensemble had a great session today making it through a piece called Minuet by Leopold Mozart. The group aged 9 through 12 had been struggling with their time keeping and today had a breakthrough and locked in together for the first time. With a little effort they might be ready for a performance by June.

The Thursday night jam was great last week with instructor Josh Icban singing Marvin Gaye’s “What’s Going On.” We played about an hour and a half before we noticed the clock and realized how much fun we were having. We look forward to the next jam on Thursday the 12th. The playing is wide open meaning we don’t know what songs we’ll play till we get there. Bass player Don Bassey said he loves getting players together and encouraging them to play freely and drop the preconceptions that arise from paying too much attention to whatever their level of ability is.

What a concept eh? Jeez, who’d have ever been musical in the first place is they we’re worried about how well they were doing it? But I digress.