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Feb. 20th, 2008
Catching Up
Feb. 20th, 2008 10:46 amThe demands of my pager, e-mail and telephone are much lighter so far this morning. There was a flurry of minor activity but those tasks are done and I can take a small break.
I've finished transcribing the 30 square dance recordings I made during the ACDC weekend nearly two weeks ago. In all, it's probably about 40 pages of square dance calls, mostly C1 with some A2.
My next step is to carefully read each call with a highlighting marker in hand, looking for interesting formations, novel sequences of calls or unusual uses of calls. After that, it's analysis & pushing of checkers to see how the highlighted calls work. Finally, I'll write some of my own material to see if I can use the ideas in a similar or related fashion; past experience tells me the first 50% of what I compose will be lame and/or bad, but the latter 50% will have promise. After more time passes, I can revisit that 50% to polish it further.
I was hoping to be able to incorporate some new ideas into my C1 material for the dance tonight and for Ettseteras on Monday, but that timeline overly ambitious right now.
I've finished transcribing the 30 square dance recordings I made during the ACDC weekend nearly two weeks ago. In all, it's probably about 40 pages of square dance calls, mostly C1 with some A2.
My next step is to carefully read each call with a highlighting marker in hand, looking for interesting formations, novel sequences of calls or unusual uses of calls. After that, it's analysis & pushing of checkers to see how the highlighted calls work. Finally, I'll write some of my own material to see if I can use the ideas in a similar or related fashion; past experience tells me the first 50% of what I compose will be lame and/or bad, but the latter 50% will have promise. After more time passes, I can revisit that 50% to polish it further.
I was hoping to be able to incorporate some new ideas into my C1 material for the dance tonight and for Ettseteras on Monday, but that timeline overly ambitious right now.
Catching Up
Feb. 20th, 2008 10:46 amThe demands of my pager, e-mail and telephone are much lighter so far this morning. There was a flurry of minor activity but those tasks are done and I can take a small break.
I've finished transcribing the 30 square dance recordings I made during the ACDC weekend nearly two weeks ago. In all, it's probably about 40 pages of square dance calls, mostly C1 with some A2.
My next step is to carefully read each call with a highlighting marker in hand, looking for interesting formations, novel sequences of calls or unusual uses of calls. After that, it's analysis & pushing of checkers to see how the highlighted calls work. Finally, I'll write some of my own material to see if I can use the ideas in a similar or related fashion; past experience tells me the first 50% of what I compose will be lame and/or bad, but the latter 50% will have promise. After more time passes, I can revisit that 50% to polish it further.
I was hoping to be able to incorporate some new ideas into my C1 material for the dance tonight and for Ettseteras on Monday, but that timeline overly ambitious right now.
I've finished transcribing the 30 square dance recordings I made during the ACDC weekend nearly two weeks ago. In all, it's probably about 40 pages of square dance calls, mostly C1 with some A2.
My next step is to carefully read each call with a highlighting marker in hand, looking for interesting formations, novel sequences of calls or unusual uses of calls. After that, it's analysis & pushing of checkers to see how the highlighted calls work. Finally, I'll write some of my own material to see if I can use the ideas in a similar or related fashion; past experience tells me the first 50% of what I compose will be lame and/or bad, but the latter 50% will have promise. After more time passes, I can revisit that 50% to polish it further.
I was hoping to be able to incorporate some new ideas into my C1 material for the dance tonight and for Ettseteras on Monday, but that timeline overly ambitious right now.