11.03
Monasterio Monjas Dominicas,
C/Mare de Deu del Roser 2,
Sant Cugat (08174), Barcelona.
Rising at 06.15 I…

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Morning Sitting at 07.15.
Breakfast at 08.00.
The day is waiting to be written…

Kitchen Meeting at 09.30.
Guitars in Ballroom at 10.15 with an Inner Circle of 13 & 25 in the Outer Circle.
Instructions given…
When ready, please begin.
When ready, please play faster than is comfortable for you.
When ready, please play Blue.
Various members left to attend to duties in the House & Kitchen.
A recapitulation of the work in the small Circles yesterday, with a few hints at developing this. Fernando was available to be the centre of a Baby Steppers Circle. Self-selecting for the other small Circles.
Morning views I…

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11.27 The faithful are departing the church.
13.07 Personal meeting.
Meeting with a quorum of the Special Study Group.
Small Circles presented their work in the ballroom: Circles centring on Tony, Curt & Luciano, Leonardo’s Trio, Fernando & The Baby Steppers. Developing variations are developing.
Lunch is late, so the small Circles moved to Whizzing in 2 groups, one of 15 & the other of 19 whizzers, along each side of the ballroom. Then moving to a full Circle Whizz.
14.55 A plate on the top table spontaneously exploded at the beginning of (late) lunch.

17.25 The Small Circles reformed at 15.15.
Tea at 16.00 with lotsa conversation. A discussion opened re: the tetrad document pinned to the board two days ago. On that tetrad, the connection / relationship between genius & mastery was unwritten. The sense is something like seeing-what-is-true; Tony’s suggestion: seeing what is right in the moment. So, the current best formulation would seem to be right judgement.
Small Circles reformed at 17.15. Fernando has moved on from the Baby Steppers, giving centring-place to Leonardo.
T’ai Chi at 18.30.
21.11 Dinner at 19.00.
Today is Tony’s 50th. birthday: Tony has now spent half his life in Guitar Craft. A formation of the eternal band Horn Up Your Ass played Happy Birthday and a cake was presented with three unblowoutable candles, but Tony managed to blow these out with a long outbreath: he learnt circular breathing from a member of Oregon.
One of the Team is leaving, returning on Thursday for the performance on Friday. He was asked to present the Six Principles Of The Performance Event; a challenge too far.
A question was asked: when in doubt, and you are thinking about what to play, what do you do?
Consensus answer: play nothing - there’s c. 38 other guitarists; and if they stop, there’s still Robert.
Discussion on what is Right Playing; and the comment that, sometimes, the wrong thing is the right thing. A practical example: playing music for dancing and a fight breaks out in the dance hall. Then, play anything! Just keep playing!
One basic approach: when no-one has any idea what to play, begin a circulation; and someone will know the right moment to begin the circulation.
Also discussed: foundations of the musical vocabulary. Is silence one of them?
Q. What is the role of dissonance?
A: in this course, a large role.
Martin has arrived at the end of the corridor, so Hernan will also have arrived.
House of Guitars at 21.30.
22.20 The House of Guitars: instructions…
When ready, please begin.
When ready, please play Saturday night. (Nothing).
When ready. Please play Sunday night.
Following a count of 5, please play a chord you like very much for 1 minute and 13 seconds.
Following a count of 5, please play a chord you don’t like very much for one minute & 23 seconds.
When ready, please play Evening.
When ready, please begin playing very quietly & get louder.
You are playing music for dancing. When ready, please begin.
When ready, please, Outer Circle circulating to the right from Erik in the key of A flat Lydian major; Inner Circle, please respond as you see fit.
23.15 A meeting with Hernan. And Martin’s guitar broken is at the headstock.
The board I…

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IV....

Night view…

Monasterio Monjas Dominicas,
C/Mare de Deu del Roser 2,
Sant Cugat (08174), Barcelona.
Rising at 06.15 I…

II...

III...

Morning Sitting at 07.15.
Breakfast at 08.00.
The day is waiting to be written…

Kitchen Meeting at 09.30.
Guitars in Ballroom at 10.15 with an Inner Circle of 13 & 25 in the Outer Circle.
Instructions given…
When ready, please begin.
When ready, please play faster than is comfortable for you.
When ready, please play Blue.
Various members left to attend to duties in the House & Kitchen.
A recapitulation of the work in the small Circles yesterday, with a few hints at developing this. Fernando was available to be the centre of a Baby Steppers Circle. Self-selecting for the other small Circles.
Morning views I…

II...

III...

11.27 The faithful are departing the church.
13.07 Personal meeting.
Meeting with a quorum of the Special Study Group.
Small Circles presented their work in the ballroom: Circles centring on Tony, Curt & Luciano, Leonardo’s Trio, Fernando & The Baby Steppers. Developing variations are developing.
Lunch is late, so the small Circles moved to Whizzing in 2 groups, one of 15 & the other of 19 whizzers, along each side of the ballroom. Then moving to a full Circle Whizz.
14.55 A plate on the top table spontaneously exploded at the beginning of (late) lunch.

17.25 The Small Circles reformed at 15.15.
Tea at 16.00 with lotsa conversation. A discussion opened re: the tetrad document pinned to the board two days ago. On that tetrad, the connection / relationship between genius & mastery was unwritten. The sense is something like seeing-what-is-true; Tony’s suggestion: seeing what is right in the moment. So, the current best formulation would seem to be right judgement.
Small Circles reformed at 17.15. Fernando has moved on from the Baby Steppers, giving centring-place to Leonardo.
T’ai Chi at 18.30.
21.11 Dinner at 19.00.
Today is Tony’s 50th. birthday: Tony has now spent half his life in Guitar Craft. A formation of the eternal band Horn Up Your Ass played Happy Birthday and a cake was presented with three unblowoutable candles, but Tony managed to blow these out with a long outbreath: he learnt circular breathing from a member of Oregon.
One of the Team is leaving, returning on Thursday for the performance on Friday. He was asked to present the Six Principles Of The Performance Event; a challenge too far.
A question was asked: when in doubt, and you are thinking about what to play, what do you do?
Consensus answer: play nothing - there’s c. 38 other guitarists; and if they stop, there’s still Robert.
Discussion on what is Right Playing; and the comment that, sometimes, the wrong thing is the right thing. A practical example: playing music for dancing and a fight breaks out in the dance hall. Then, play anything! Just keep playing!
One basic approach: when no-one has any idea what to play, begin a circulation; and someone will know the right moment to begin the circulation.
Also discussed: foundations of the musical vocabulary. Is silence one of them?
Q. What is the role of dissonance?
A: in this course, a large role.
Martin has arrived at the end of the corridor, so Hernan will also have arrived.
House of Guitars at 21.30.
22.20 The House of Guitars: instructions…
When ready, please begin.
When ready, please play Saturday night. (Nothing).
When ready. Please play Sunday night.
Following a count of 5, please play a chord you like very much for 1 minute and 13 seconds.
Following a count of 5, please play a chord you don’t like very much for one minute & 23 seconds.
When ready, please play Evening.
When ready, please begin playing very quietly & get louder.
You are playing music for dancing. When ready, please begin.
When ready, please, Outer Circle circulating to the right from Erik in the key of A flat Lydian major; Inner Circle, please respond as you see fit.
23.15 A meeting with Hernan. And Martin’s guitar broken is at the headstock.
The board I…

II...

III...

IV....

Night view…
