Last Tuesday, 4 October 2022, I managed to get out to open mic night for the first time in over a month, and it was a thoroughly enjoyable experience. This particular open mic typically hosts a small but closely-knit group of musicians, one that does not knit itself so closely as to bar outsiders. Indeed, these dudes are super encouraging of new musicians, young and old alike, and have nursed some real talent.
Unfortunately, I’d left my two small binders of tunes at school in my haste to depart Tuesday afternoon (I had to get to the bank!), so I only had a few scant lead sheets handy. One of them was a copy of Journey’s “Faithfully” in C major—a key that puts the upper range a bit outside of what is feasible for yours portly, but I gave it my best shot.
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