{"id":7969,"date":"2015-08-26T08:30:32","date_gmt":"2015-08-26T15:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/?p=7969"},"modified":"2015-08-26T08:30:32","modified_gmt":"2015-08-26T15:30:32","slug":"i-guess-all-that-changes-practice-helped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/26\/i-guess-all-that-changes-practice-helped\/","title":{"rendered":"i guess all that changes practice helped"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rehearsal last night for <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/410477405821524\/410477412488190\/\">the shows in Tacoma this weekend<\/a>; we&#8217;re going to have <em>two<\/eM> more, one as Leannan Sidhe, and one as Crime and the Forces of Evil, probably on different days since rehearsing two bands&#8217; worth of material in one day is a wee bit of a pain in the ass.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/solarbird.net\/Livejournal\/2015-08\/pagan-pride-1.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>(I say that particularly since Leannan Sidhe gave me like nine new songs like two and a half weeks in advance, one of those weeks to be spent at Worldcon. But she only does things like that because she knows I&#8217;ll do it.)<\/p>\n<p>So I spent a lot of that Worldcon week repeatedly listening to the new material and working on some of the more <em>amusing<\/em> chord changes. I rather suspect power-A to G#m to F#m to C#m in beat succession is easier on guitar than on zouk. But! I can be taught. And I was able to charge right through it just fine each time in rehearsal today. So, yeah, go me.<\/p>\n<p>Now I just need to get a better grip on a couple of these new harmonies&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rehearsal last night for the shows in Tacoma this weekend; we&#8217;re going to have two more, one as Leannan Sidhe, and one as Crime and the Forces of Evil, probably on different days since rehearsing two bands&#8217; worth of material in one day is a wee bit of a pain in the ass. (I say [&#038;hellip<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7969\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}