Sunday means church gigs!
The AM church gig is headed back towards some sort of normalcy. Rhythm section, horn section, and vocalists (though this week there was a choir instead of five or six people). The charts worked without any problems. It's a miracle! The horns set up on the opposite side because the choir was on a riser in our usual spot. Sonically, things were worse--not only could we not hear the drums, bass, or acoustic guitar, but stage right we could barely make out the piano. Hmm. In ear monitors can't make it to this gig soon enough.
The PM church gig was a little better than last week. Latest evidence I am headed straight to hell: during the communion song, the pianist/bandleader played the same wrong note in the melody twice, so when she tossed me the solo, I incorporated her wrong note as a chromatic passing tone. Did you catch that? I did it again. And again. How about in the opposite direction? Yes. This sent me off on a little chromatic crusade to add half steps in between the diatonic notes of the melody wherever possible, rising and falling. Wee! Nobody said anything afterwards, so I guess file that under self amusement. Oh well.
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