Six Sundays Guitar Ensemble Project
January to June, 2014.
Director: Horacio Pozzo
June 8, 2014
Participants :
Federico García Silva
Theo Morresi
Marcelo O´Reilly
Horacio Pozzo
Marcos Pozzo
9.35-10.10
Arrivals, setting up the space.
10.15
Orchestral Calisthenics:
-metronome@60bpm, each player finds his own warmup of both hands, listening and improvs underway.
-one repeated note each, building chords, circulating changes.
- 3vs.4 3vs.5 4vs. 5 ; improvs
Circulations in C
Circulations in Bb
11.10
Tea Break
11.30
Repertoire review:
EOTN, Asturias, Mantral, Good Night, Red, Tango Apasionado, Nocturna
13.10
Lunch Break: tortilla, salad and water at Centro Montañés
14.30
THRAK
J.S. Bach´s Prelude in C (four bars circulated)
Children´s Dance (Bartók)
16.10
Tea break
16.30
Procession chords and walking in the school
Children´s Dance (Bartók)
Blockhead middle arpeggio section (three parts)
Red
Invocation
Aspiration
17.40
Completion
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May 11, 2014
Participants :
Marcelo O´Reilly
Pablo Mandel
Theo Morresi
Horacio Pozzo
Marcos Pozzo
Fermín Raviolo
9.35-10.10
Arrivals, setting up the space.
10.20
Calisthenics:
open A, downstrokes, alternate picking, adding open D and open E.
Adding a fretted note from G major on one string, moving with the flow...
10.50
First Secondary on one string and two strings.
11.05
Downstrokes in fast mode, choosing one note from G major.
VROOOM Coda.
11.30
E major circulations:
-1 note per player, 2 notes, triplets
-double stops on the second and third strings
11.40
Tea Break
11.55
Arvo Pärt: Three Variations for the Healing of Arinushka
12.50
Lunch Break: Tortilla, salad and water at Centro Montañés.
14.30
Marcos leads "a tempo fast circulations" in E Major. Each player has a place on the beat, leaving empty spaces ad lib and returning to the complete configuration.
15.30
E pentatonic major:
2 vs. 3 in two circulations groups
4 vs. 3
16.15
Tea break
16.30
EOTN:
-F#m section learning all the parts from that section (two leads, bass and burbles, counting)
-Bass from the Intro
17.00
Short sections from old repertoire for personal practice:
-Larks´ main pattern in Eb
-Blockhead middle arpeggio section (three parts)
18.10
Completion
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April 13, 2014
Intro participants:
Joaquín Antón
Gabriel d'Andrea
Fabián Quinteros
Alejandro Trebino
Ezequiel Vallejo
Emmanuel Verdura
Six Sundays participants :
Lucas Gallo
Federico García Silva
Daniel Kubiliunas
Marcelo O´Reilly
Horacio Pozzo
Marcos Pozzo
Fermín Raviolo
Horacio Sairafi
9.25-10.20
Arrivals, setting up the space.
10.23
Presentations.
10.30
We acknowledge a sense of presence by bringing part of our attention to the soles of our feet, to the top of our heads and to what is in between. Then we bring part of our attention to the left hand.
"Choose a note and, when you are ready, play that note as the moment demands." Three minutes.
"Choose another note and begin again." Four minutes into...
Any note circulations.
10.50
How to hold the pick, the operation of the right hand, wrist, arm, elbow:
The Second Primary, open third string, downstrokes firstly, alternate picking secondly.
Moving to two open strings.
11.10
C major circulations: open strings and fretted on the 5th, 7th and 12th frets.
Two groups circulating in different configurations.
Upbeats and downbeats.
11.30
Tea Break.
11.45
The GC Tuning, questions and learning how to tune the guitar in a guitar circle.
12.00
The operation of the left hand, the First Primary on the 7th position, third string.
Moving to other strings and along the neck.
12.20
EOTN Coda, learning and exchanging the parts, count in 5.
Practice.
We played a very good Coda, twice.
13.10
Lunch break, we go to Centro Montañés: tortilla, salad and water for all.
14.30
THRAK. All the parts, without the form of the piece.
Procession Chords with arpeggios and circulations.
16.05
2 vs. 3 circulations in two groups (C major).
Invocation, learned the parts, solos called.
Asturias, learned the parts and structure, played the whole piece.
17.20
Tea break.
17.40
C Whole Tone scale and chords on inner four strings (the stairs): circulations.
Chromatic Whizzes.
EOTN Coda review.
Asturias review.
18.40
Comments and Questions before the Completion. The Future.
18.52
Completion.
Restoring of the workspace.
19.05
Departures.
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March 9, 2014
Participants :
Lucas Gallo
Federico García Silva
Daniel Kubiliunas
Marcelo O´Reilly
Pablo Mandel
Theo Morresi
Horacio Pozzo
Marcos Pozzo
Fermín Raviolo
César Seppey
9.50-10.20
Arrivals, setting up the space, presentations.
10.20
Calisthenics:
open D, then four fingers in the 7th position to address the 1st Primary.
Bringing the exercise to the six strings on the same position. Different tempos and divisions.
11.00
Different configurations for circulations:
-Chromatic
-C# Whole Tone
-C major
11.35
"El Cisne" (Saint-Saens):
Fermín presents this new piece arranged for large ensemble, 13 bars played honorably.
12.30
Lunch break, we go to Centro Montañés.
14.00
"Nos siguen pegando abajo" (Charly García): riff in 7, counting and verse chords.
THRAK
Invocation
Aspiration
15.30 Break
15.50
"Mantral" (Yamamoto) with circulations.
"Hey Joe" review
Review of the two new pieces presented today
Third Relation failed attempt
EOTN review
Calliope review
17.35 Break
17.45
Whizzes
Procession Chords around the school
18.50
Completion
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February 9, 2014
Participants :
Lucas Gallo
Federico García Silva
Marcelo O´Reilly
Pablo Mandel
Theo Morresi
Horacio Pozzo
Marcos Pozzo
Fermín Raviolo
9.50-10.25
Arrivals, setting up the space, presentations.
10.34
Calithenics: open A, open D. Alternate picking, dividing the beat in 2-3, in two groups.
10.00
Chromatic circulations. C major circulations in different configurations.
Level Six
11.35
EOTN: Burbles Part in detail for everyone + Coda.
12.00
"Mantral" (new piece by Yamamoto)
"Hey Joe" presented by Marcelo O´R. Chords and Improvs.
13.00
Lunch break, we go to Centro Montañés.
14.35
Different circulations
"Group Loop" launched by Pablo
"Follow the Leader" by Fermín
C minor hexatonic improvs and circulations.
15.50
Break in the patio
16.15
Procession Chords review
Calliope
Aspiration
Invocation
17.25
Break in the patio
17.50
Repertoire review: Mantral and Hey Joe
2 vs. 3 circulations in two groups
Whizzes
19.03
Completion
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January 12, 2014
Participants :
Lucas Bellver
Pablo Ferraioli
Lucas Gallo
Ignacio Gracián
Marcelo O´Reilly
Alejandro Llosa
Pablo Mandel
Horacio Pozzo
9.45-10.15
Arrivals, setting up the space.
10.30
Inaugural Meeting presentations: who we are, why are we here, our aim for the project.
10.40
Open A, open D, open E. Alternate picking, dividing the beat in 2-3, adding notes on one string.
11.00
Circulations in C major: two vs three and three vs. four in two groups.
EOTN
11.45
Break
Body counting in the patio: walk in 8 and clap.
12.00
Procession Chords and Circulations in Dm.
Arpeggios variations from "6 days a week".
Asturias
Level Six
13.00
Lunch break, we go to Centro Montañés.
14.30
Clapping groups improvisations and circulations.
Presentation of "Va y Ven" arpeggios by Ignacio.
Whole Tone chords and different circulations
Aspiration
Level Six review
C major circulation 2 vs. 3
16.45
Break
17.00
EOTN
Asturias review
C minor hexatonic improv
18.45
Completion
