The second practice session with Izumi (Nekomushi) went better than I had expected, considering that I didn’t spend nearly as much time preparing as I should have. We did end up cutting one song from the set list, because I felt it was just to intricate for me to learn it and come up with an interesting part in such a short time frame. We may try to squeeze in one more short rehearsal in the next few days, but competing schedules (ours and the studio’s) may make it an impossibility. While it would be nice to have another hour together, I think we’ll be mostly fine for Sunday. Between now and then, I’ll try to work on some more interesting melody/accompaniment parts with my right hand.

This practice session was the first time that I took my MacRack out of the house. I didn’t bring all of my foot controllers along (in an attempt to reduce baggage), so it was difficult for me to adjust volume levels while playing. That combined with the fact that we weren’t using monitors made it hard for me to get a good sense of how the processing on the melody side sounded. Sunday at El Barco will be my first opportunity to really test the MacRack away from home.