SoundWave

Several weeks ago, I applied for an audition spot for the Sounders FC's pep-band "SoundWave". My audition was set for 10am today - but I had a previous commitment on Hood Canal at a retreat for church leaders. Saturday, at the conference, I asked my friend Jack to help me transpose "Mona Lisa" (Nat King Cole) from treble to bass clef as the 'solo' portion of my tryout, but made a point of not actually playing the resulting sheet of music until the morning of the tryout. I left the conference early (last night) so I'd be in town fresh, and ready to play.

This morning, I drove into my office at 9am, went up to a vacant conference room, and played through the resulting sheet for the first time. Fortunately I found a couple of glaring mistakes in my transposing, and fixed them. By 9:45 I was ready. By 10:30, I had been interviewed, did some very poor music sight reading, played the solo, and was out the door.

Tonight I got the call... my first rehearsal as a *MEMBER* of SoundWave is Saturday, 3pm!!!! Now I'm dreaming we'll play "Legend Of The One Eyed Sailor", or "Mardi Gras Mambo", and some other rockin Latin stuff. (WOOT!!!)