New Standard Tuning Day

with ZUM

Saturday 7, June 2008

Angel Blau Club, Barcelona, Spain

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A report by Fumihito Hatano.

Participants

NST
1 Luis Poveda Monerris
2 Oliver Bory
3 Eduardo Cabrera
4 Oriol Vilella
5 Jonathan Marchan
6 Carles Las Heras
7 Adolf Huguet
8 Eric Cortes
9 Josu Adanez
10 Miguel Francesch
11 Manel Fernandez
12 Deborah Lopez Vila
13 Albert Gomez
14 Oriol Gonzalez

GCB members
15 Arnaldo Ferruggiaro 16 Alvaro Teran
17 Marco Moreira
18 Barbara Zimmermann

GUESTS
19 Silvain Truchet
20 Dr. Mike

ZUM
21Shinkuro Matsuura
22 Luciano Pietrafesa
23 Fumihito Hatano

9:30 The NST will take place at the venue where ZUM is performing tonight: “Angel Blau Club”. It is a traditional jazz and Rock Club in Andorra. With the support of the GCB we organized the space.

10:00 Inaugural meeting.

There were two circles. In the inner Circle 14 guitars, in the outer circle 9 guitars.

Luciano began leading the circles. While tuning the guitars into the NST some strings were broken. Then, the instruction was to play any note of your choice when ready.

Circulations. Then counting exercises in 3 and 5. Inner and outer circle played in different counting, inner circle played 3 accent in 1 and outer circle circulates on top in 5 accents 1 and 4.
Several participants had no straps on their guitars. They were provided later after the brake.

First primary presented by Shinkuro, Second primary presented by Luciano. I was in the outer circle to support them with the Barcelona circle members and guests.

14:00 We went for lunch at a pizza place nearby all together.

After lunch break, Luciano presented Thrak. I joined the inner circle with ten bars of seven.

First Primary revision with several variations by Shinkuro. Then, parts are presented to the circles. It turned very musical.

17:30 NST in Andorra was completed after sharing comments about today’s work. Many of the NST participants are attending tonight performance.

After a brake we met back at 20.30 the venue for soundcheck. The GCB + guests was warming up.