Email from Casey:We rely, as always, on the skills of the volunteer co-hosts to do the zoomy part of running the session. Are you curious about how Joe’s Fuzzy Logic works in the second round? see the note below.
And don’t forget to post to Chat the title and origin of songs you sing (we guest hosts don’t have quite Joe’s well-known superpower for finding a song on line! Help us get your song info, so it appears on the list of songs and readings that Gerry posts to the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround thread every week.)
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JOE’S FUZZY LOGIC - how the singing order works in the second round.
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—The Mudcat Worldwide Singaround continues until everyone who wishes to has sung twice.
—Participants are given a number as they arrive. If you’re just listening, let the host or a co-host know, and you’ll be given the number 99, indicating to the host that you aren’t planning to sing.
—In the first round, we sing in the order of our numbers.
--There are always singers who can’t be there for the first round. This is to be expected in a large session that incorporates busy people from many time zones.
— Joe has his own system to insure that people arriving in the second round still get to sing twice. Joe tries to avoid having anyone sing their two songs back to back. Therefore, he likes to incorporate latecomers into the queue to sing their first song soon after they arrive, and then have them sing their second song when we reach their number.
-- He accomplishes this by calling on the singers with numbers 1-10, then detouring to anyone who has only arrived in the second round and has not yet sung at all. When the late arrivals have sung their first song, he continues with singers numbered 11-20. Then he checks once again for any additional arrivals who haven’t yet had their first song, and calls on them. Finally, Joe continues with singers from numbers 21 on, and we sing through to the end of the queue. He may decide to let a very late arrival sing twice in a row, depending on how late the session is running. That’s Joe’s Fuzzy Logic!