arts week

overall, i was pretty happy with our class arts week performance. I thought everything went pretty well. The intro was good though a bit a chaotic but i guess that was to be expected considering how many instruments there were playing. Just the same, everyone did a good job for paying attention to cues from the conductor so it all worked out. It was too bad we didnt have more groups that had stuff they wanted to play i think there could have been alot more good music if that had been the case. Regardless, the john fox co. performance was definitely a neat idea though it was kinda rough cuz it seemed like there were technical issues and not everything worked out as they planned. Either way it was a neat experiment in improvisation. I was pretty pleased with my performance for the most part although my lead playing didnt really go anywhere, it was kind of random and didnt always go together. But at the same time i guess the class is improvising music not composing music so its acceptable. It was great having the drum and bass behind me to fill out that sound though, i think that was a huge improvement over just the two guitars. when it came time to break up into the groups for the last part i thought things went fairly well. There were definitely some difficult themes goin around and i think we could have done alot better if given a bit more time to plan out our playing. My group did alright considering the randomness of some of our topics. One of the improv sessions that stood out the most to me was the group that did "running of the bulls". I thought that was great and fit the theme perfectly. All in all i was happy with our performance the only thing that i think maybe would have made it better would have been if as a group we all did a big blues/rock jam in a common key. Just because its so easy to sound good in that format i think we really could have turned some heads. But then again that could just be the guitar player in me talking. Either way, great job everyone.