the thing about writing is that it’s got too personal. the things i’d like to touch upon are sensitive, close – inflamed. i cannot point the finger let alone press it against the wound. unusally the symptoms make the illness worse. like hepatitis in the liver: a virus thirsty for your failure: its demands for parasite life making a cold beer in the veins an elixr of life, where it, for you, would be a dose of death.
overdoing it. i hit the floor again last night. wham, into the cold slate, catching the freezer corner on my eye on the way down, leaving a scratched puffy lid that could be much much worse. it slows me down too much.
the red of the vine, uncrushed. the black feet of the crow.

—play and sustain ascending notes of a chromatic scale across each instrument.
start at the bottom.
dble basses: begin on lo E. one player at a time – F, Gb, G etc.
then onto cellos, who have been silently following the scale.
and so on.
if the scale goes out of range for your instrument, lower the octave.

remember what note you are playing (write it down).

listen to melody and try to ‘walk’ through the scale to reach and follow it.
if melody does not play, ‘walk’ or ‘drop’ to the 2 lowest notes.

pause for one bar when directed, before following score Two.

“symbol” (see bar 1) means to play your remembered note for the duration specified.
otherwise, play the written note if within range.

conductor will keep tempo.

pledge/curse: all those who bring equipment into the space, and mention how much they like it – how hurt they would be if it were to break or melt – or how much it cost – especially if in comparison to other things that may be owned – will witness said equipment die.
all those who bring sub-standard equipment that they have found in the corner under a chest of drawers filled with school books, or that they have bought cheap from maplins, or that their mum got them when they were 16 and probably cost £60, and which they describe truthfully as such, will be rewarded by the everlasting reliability of said equipment.
all those who make high feedback noises will piss off _____.
all those who smoke _____ will be a bit sweaty.
all those who smoke ____ will lose confidence of voice.
when only one guitar is working, instead of 3 or 4, the band will sound shit and be demoralised for a while.
all will spend too long tuning.
all those who know how it goes will get it wrong.
all songs continue for a length unspecified.
the bass will never be loud enough.
at least one member will be in a foul mood, and perform better because of it.
all members shall get home much, much later than is reasonable.

NONO

imagine your range is over one string: imagine your instrument is one very long string.
play 2 notes (highest/lowest), sustain/loop.
play a note exactly halfway between. (sustain/loop)
play 2 notes exactly halfway between the top and middle note and the bottom and middle note. (sustain… etc)
play 4 note exactly halfway between these notes.
continue this pattern. all notes must be sustained: the notes accumulate. continue to max note accumulation for your ensemble.