Did you do some Pete Towshend-like windmill strums, and then smash the
guitar over the baptismal fount?
Rob
2008/12/29 David van Ooijen <[1]davidvanooi...@gmail.com>
Slightly OT.
Yesterday I was playing baroque guitar in he opening choir of the
fifth cantata of Bach's Christmas Oratorio. Changed many orchestra
members' idea of the piece in the process, btw: off-beat strumming
and
golpe on the rests in the bass was not what they were used to. ;-)
It
was a small band: four violins, viola, cello, double bass, two oboe,
bassoon, cembalo and just four singers. Everybody except the cello,
double bass and cembalo where standing up. I was standing up too.
Standing up I blended better, had better projection and better
visibility. While I was strumming away looking at the 500+ audience,
I
couldn't help feeling like a pop guitar hero, and it was very hard
not
to move like one. I'm not a pop guitar player at all, but the
association with strumming-chords-while-standing was very strong.
Just some observations.
David - holidays for a full week!
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