June 25th setlist

Here is the setlist for our last Live in the Ville concert. Let's go out with a bang! This will also be the setlist for Monday's concert at the Hammond Public Library.

Rhythm of Love

I’m a Believer
I Hear You Knocking
Margaritaville
I Saw the Light
Fortunate Son
Fire
Hey Soul Sister
Circle
Brown-Eyed Girl
Keep on the Sunny Side
Roll Over Beethoven

At the link is a folder with the song sheets and notation for our different instrumentalists. I have copies printed out for our players, if you want to stop by to the library to pick them up.

And here is a picture of us from last Saturday. My dopey grin tells you what a fun time I was having.



 

 

Setlist for June 18th

Hi folks! Here is the setlist for Saturday, June 18th. We go on at 9 p.m. in front of the White Ripple Gallery this time.


Everyday People (key of C)
The Way You Do the Things You Do
Jamaica Farewell
Hey Soul Sister
Summertime Blues
I Saw the Light (Todd Rundgren)
Brown-Eyed Girl
Starfish & Coffee
Love Me Do
Lean on Me
Wagon Wheel
This Little Light of Mine


Setlists ahoy!

Just the song sheets, for our guitar players.

B-flat notation for Linda.

The whole shebang, with chords, concert, b-flat and e-flat notation.

Quickie video-- guitar strumming

Hi folks! Happy Sunday night almost into Monday morning. Here's a short video of me strumming the guitar holding down the G, C, and D chords. (Warning: contains loud pajama bottoms.)

Setlist for June 11th

Hey folks! Here is the Live in the Ville setlist for Saturday, June 11th:

Summertime Blues
Rhythm of Love
Some Kind of Wonderful
Drift Away
Margaritaville
Moon River (Rich & Linda duet)
Where Are You Going
Sloop John B
Stand By Me
Roadhouse Blues
Everyday People


I made two different scans of the setlist:

• one complete with concert, b-flat and alto notation
• the other one just chords

It's going to be a great night! Let's all meet at 8 p.m. in front of the White Ripple Gallery. We go on at 9 p.m., same as last time. You all did beautifully last week, and it's just going to get better and easier each time we perform.

I hope you all can come early to hang out at Live in the Ville as well. Brabant Lenting is having an artist talk at the White Ripple Gallery, all the studios will be open, and there will of course be a lot of things happening outside for us to enjoy. See you Saturday!

Live in the Ville starts this weekend!

White Ripple Community Band is going to be busy in June, with the first of our public performances starting this Saturday at Live in the Ville.

If you haven't been, you're in for a treat. June 4th features a food truck throwdown, Rick Therrio will be giving an artist talk, and there's just dancing and Hessville merriment all around.

Band members, bring your library concert setlist from April for this Saturday. We go on from 9-10 p.m., so plan on being there an hour early so we can get set up to play.

You will be great. Excelsior! \o/

White Ripple Community Band May 23rd, 2016

Housekeeping note: There will be no class on Monday because of the Memorial Day holiday. We will meet up to make music again on June 6th.

Last Monday we went around the Circle of Fifths and did two very different songs with the same chord progression.



Song 1: I Will Survive by Gloria Gaynor

     Am                             Dm                              G                                              C

At first I was afraid I was petrified Kept thinking I could never live Without you by my side

                 F                                               Dm                                                 E
But then I spent so many nights Thinking how you did me wrong And I grew strong

                      E                                                                                              

And I learned how to get along... Annnnd repeat as needed! Now try the same chords and swap out the disco beat with something a bit more swingy.


Song 2: Fly Me to the Moon by Frank Sinatra.

Am                Dm                     G                       C

Fly me to the moon     Let me play among the stars

F                          Dm                          E                Am
Let me see what spring is like  On a, Jupiter and Mars


Am, Dm, G, C, F, Dm, E. Amazing. We talked a little bit about music theory (not enough to hurt) about why those chords sound good together, and why is it that those same chords in the same order sound very different from one song to another.



 

P.S. Sarita totally rocked Frank on the sax. 

                                        

White Ripple Community Band May 16th, 2016

A big thanks to WRCB for coming out and playing for the opening of Rick Therrio and Brabant Lenting's new exhibit, "Subconscious Symmetry." Check out the exhibit at the White Ripple Gallery when you get a chance-- it'll be up for another few weeks.


We were small but mighty last night, cranking through a whole bunch of good stuff. Linda, Sherry, Tom and I warmed up with The Plain White T's before settling in to our songs of the evening:


Song 1: Summertime Blues by Eddie Cochran. We played with sliding from A-flat to A, then that classic riff: A, A, A, D...E, E, E, A... A, A, A, D... E, E, E, A. You can find those notes anywhere on your instrument, but I find I like them on the higher strings because the higher pitch carries better.

Song 2: Starfish and Coffee by Prince. Something cool happened on this song. I didn't have a B-flat chart for Linda, so I was just going to introduce it to the guitar players and pick it up more fully next week when Rich got back, but she got right on with it while Sherry and Tom kept up an effortless syncopated beat, and that left me no choice but to start singing. It's like we're an actual band or something!

This is the Old Town School of Folk Music's 'Song of the Session' for the next couple of months, so be sure to download a free chart while it's available.