Practice Schudule 11

This week has been pretty busy and i didnt get in any practicing, so i have taken my flute for the weekend and am hoping to catch up this way.

I did a practice session today practicing for a total of 40minutes. I started off with the chromatic exercises in the purple book on page 9. I now find that lines 1 and 2 are very comftorable for me, and amd now working on lines 3 and 4; they are coming along fairly well its mostly the sharps that i am still having some trouble iwth but i feel that my ability to read sharps has become increasingly better as the semester has progressed. After a quick warm up with the scales i went into the standard of excellence book and reviewed some of the lines that we played in class over the week; i also went to the back and did the rhythm study since i hadn't done that in a while. I found that i could play all of the rhythms with relative ease, though some of the ones with sixteenths and triplets threw me off and i had to think them through. Once that was done, i played through pirates just because i really like that piece, especially the ending section with the triplets. Then i spent the remainder of my time on the holst suite specifically on the first movement, second section. I worked on being able to play it up the octave at the proper tempo though i am still finding that the high A flats and B flats give me some trouble just becuase the fingerings are really awkward. It is better than it was, but i still feel that it needs work and plan on practicing it again tomorrow.