Thanks Mike - is this your secret Rock & Roll background peeping through -

Thanks FloraG - We gerally play a whole A and people don't drift in.

I am still looking for advice on how the tempo is: 1. decided, 2. generated and 3 maintained.

We are an Improvers band and some of us cannot play some tunes quickly. If the tempo is too high or - more likely speeds up chaos may insu.

I am reassured by Brakyn, who is actually in our band, above and Richard near the start of this that bass & drums lie at the heart of tempo.