Last night Snake Suspenderz just had our first full-on rehearsal in some time and, thanks to the magic of Thadd's Zoom H2, we've got not one, but two new rehearsal tapes for your delectation.

The first one is Singin' In The Rain. I learned this easy arrangement on ukulele from Seattle music teacher Michael Lynch. He's got lots of great ukulele instructional videos up on YouTube. Check him out!

This was actually the first song we played at the rehearsal. I just started playing it, we'd never done the tune together before. We didn't even bother to print out charts for sal, the tubist, he caught it right away. We ran through it once, talked about how we were going to arrange it for a moment and then ran through it again with the recorder on. A little light futzing about "post production" and the mp3 presented here was born.

The next one is the Fats Waller/Andy Razaf tune, Honeysuckle Rose. The ukulele got a little lost in the mix — I was sitting too far from the H2, live and learn — but it is in there and it's a pretty good recording so we're releasing it into the wild.

I'll be catching up on the links at the Snake's site to include these two new rehearsal tapes but meawhile, y'all get the early peeks.

Let me know what you think!