{"id":39,"date":"2016-03-26T03:06:14","date_gmt":"2016-03-26T03:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ethorsen.com\/morecowbell\/?p=39"},"modified":"2016-03-26T03:06:14","modified_gmt":"2016-03-26T03:06:14","slug":"the-creative-process-during-rehearsal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ethorsen.com\/morecowbell\/the-creative-process-during-rehearsal\/","title":{"rendered":"The Creative Process during rehearsal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Joe Cocker - Feelin&#039; Alright\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FoAO0851FwA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>We love playing for our crowds, and to quote Jeff &#8220;we play for free, we just charge to haul our gear back and forth!&#8221; But we still get together between gigs. Great opportunity to keep the rust off the classics, try out new tunes, and enjoy a frosty cold beverage with a few friends who love Rock and Roll.<\/p>\n<p>So last Saturday we got together and set up our gear. Worked through a few tunes and were feeling good. Eric played a lick with his left hand that sounded a lot like <em>Feelin&#8217; Alright<\/em>. &#8220;Hey that sounded cool&#8221; said Jeff. Bob chimed in &#8220;We could do that song!&#8221;\u00a0A few minutes later we found the chords online, printed a few copies and ran through it. It takes a few times through to lock down the flow of the song, work out the changes, and fine-tune any harmonies in the chorus. The first time through is a little rough, but <em>Feelin&#8217; Alright<\/em> was smooth from the start. We ran through it a few times, with both Jeff and Eric taking a solo on the last run-through. It&#8217;s now a staple in our set list, and we expect to pull it out at DeSha&#8217;s in a few weeks.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s amazing to think we&#8217;ve been playing together since 2007. Next year will be our tenth year as More Cowbell. It might be time for some black concert T-shirts, and a wider tour!<\/p>\n<p>Cheers!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We love playing for our crowds, and to quote Jeff &#8220;we play for free, we just charge to haul our gear back and forth!&#8221; But we still get together between gigs. Great opportunity to keep the rust off the classics, try out new tunes, and enjoy a frosty cold beverage with a few friends who&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethorsen.com\/morecowbell\/the-creative-process-during-rehearsal\/\" class=\"read-more\">Continue reading The Creative Process during rehearsal<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ethorsen.com\/morecowbell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ethorsen.com\/morecowbell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ethorsen.com\/morecowbell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ethorsen.com\/morecowbell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ethorsen.com\/morecowbell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ethorsen.com\/morecowbell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ethorsen.com\/morecowbell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ethorsen.com\/morecowbell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ethorsen.com\/morecowbell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}