So yesterday I'd resigned myself to sitting out the second communion hymn: J.S. Bach's Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring. Our director wanted to go straight into it from the preceding song, and I didn't have chords for the well-known instrumental part, even though I'd played it before, a few years ago. I grabbed some chords off of the Web last night, and had a printer issue that I resolved this hectic morning by rebooting it, only to discover at church that it was incomplete.
So when I noticed this after our first run through this morning, I took a few minutes to figure out what was missing. She gave me some coda chords she wanted me to use, which I needed to transpose because I was using a capo, but we ended up not using them because of when the communion procession ended.
It went pretty well. Afterward, my director said, "You, sir, are a hell of a musician."
I don't know about that; I was mostly just arpeggiating chords - okay, a little added fill, but not much - and only had to figure out a few of them on my own, but it sure was a nice compliment.
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