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"Hey, I'm sounding for a pound guitar player for my virtual folk song set. Can you romp the blues? You can? Great! Would you same to audition? You would? Fantastic! Come on, tactical manoeuvre into my virtual practice breathing space and run into my practical fastening family. We've got a big realistic journeying coming up and we urgently want a virtual musical rhythm guitar player. By the way, what's your name? Stevie? Nice to gather round you Stevie, I'm Pete. Come on, come up at home....."

CUT TO.....

VIRTUAL REHEARSAL ROOM -EVENING

A slightly lit room next to graffiti on the walls. The drummer and the bass recitalist are electronic jamming a idle words folksong. Pete and Stevie cut off.

PETE: (Shouting) Guys

They don't perceive him

PETE: (Shouting louder) Guys, QUIET!!!!!!

They die away musical performance.

PETE: Thank you. This is Stevie. He says he can pirouette the folksong.

JAKEY THE DRUMMER: Hi Stevie, I'm Jakey

COLIN THE BASS PLAYER: Yo, I'm Colin

STEVIE: Nice to come upon you both.

JAKEY: So you skip the blues, huh?

STEVIE: Sure, everyone can unbend the folk ballad.

PETE: Ok, seize a guitar Steve. We'll have a jam.

Jakey adjusts his hi-hat. Colin turns the decibels up on his amplifier.

COLIN: Ok, how about thing frugal to create off with.

JAKEY: A 16 bar?

PETE: Sounds good, key of C painful.

Jakey starts with in

JAKEY: 1...2...3..

Stevie interrupts

STEVIE: Sorry, a what bar?

PETE: A 16 bar

Stevie has a white aspect on his human face. Colin and Jakey swop glances.

PETE: Have you vie a 16 bar before?

Stevie shakes his person in charge.

PETE: Ok, erm...I know let's try an 8 bar folk song.

COLIN: Yeah. Let's do it in A flat

JAKEY: Great! 1....2....3....

STEVIE: (Interrupting) Hold on guys.

Everybody looks at Stevie.

STEVIE: I'm sorry, I'm not too certain how to dance an 8 bar.

PETE: I musing you same you could pirouette the black music...

STEVIE: (Angry) Sure I can leap the african-american music. I've been playing the african-american music for years. I grew up playing the folk song.

PETE: Erm, OK then, let's try a subsidiary african-american music in F discriminating.

JAKEY: 1...2...3...

STEVIE: (Interrupting) Er...no

PETE: But you did say you can skip the folk ballad.

STEVIE: Course I can dramatic composition the folk ballad.

COLIN: Ok, your call Stevie, what shall we play?

STEVIE: Well, how roughly speaking a 12 bar blues in E?

PETE: Yeah, ok. Let's offer it a go. We'll form it a hurried alteration 12 bar in 12/8 instance. Oh yea and lead in beside the turnaround.

JAKEY: 1...........

STEVIE: (Interrupting) Erm.......

Pete, Jakey and Colin are puzzled

PETE: What?

STEVIE: Quick change? 12/8? Lead in near the turnaround?

PETE: But you aforesaid you can dramatic play the folk song.

STEVIE: yeah, asymptomatic not this form of african-american music.

An ham-fisted hush fills the liberty.

STEVIE: (Embarrassed) Erm...maybe.....I should...er......go

Stevie turns and leaves

Jakey and Colin look daggers at Pete

PETE: But he said he could dramatic composition the folk ballad....

Cymbal smash together - THE END!

Ok, let's measure out of virtuality and rear to experience. I have a sound out for you.....

If you were in Stevie's shoes, what would you have answered once asked you if you could stage show the blues?

Be honest, would you have aforementioned yes? I advisement most stringed instrument players would have. It seems as conversely a lot of culture muse the folk ballad is an smooth music. Three chords in a 12 bar format. Well, a lot of it is 3 chords and a lot of it is in a 12 bar format. There is no denying that. But, within is also a lot more to it than best culture ruminate.

Let me ask you another interrogation. Once again, statement outspokenly.

Imagine it was you in the tryout breathing space and not Stevie. Could you have compete the 16 bar in the key of C sharp? How about the 8 bar or the secondary blues? How would you have coped beside the u-turn making known or the prompt change? Would you have acknowledged what 12/8 juncture was? Would you have been snug in the keys that were suggested? C sharp?, A flat? F sharp? Remember, you are woman asked to play these belongings on the blemish.

If you answered yes to all the above then, great! You involve publication no added. Go remunerate yourself beside a jam doughnut, you be it. For those of you that answered no to all, or only one of the questions, we condition to do many career. Maybe you could dispute that "feel" would have got you finished the test. What is this word; "feel?" Well, it's serious to have it, but a bit stupid to believe on it. Sometimes we condition a tiny bit more than cognizance to get us done sinewy situations. The correctness is we inevitability knowledge!

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