Monday, March 30, 2009

Practice Schudule 12

So this would be the report from yesterdays practice schudule:)

I kinda practiced sporadically throughout the day because i had preselection for work in the evening which i was kinda nervous for and for some reason playing makes me calm down, probably because i actually have to focus and its fun, so i always found myself going back to it throughout the day when i was taking essay breaks..

For the 40minutes that i did my actual practicing, i played through the scales that we have been working on in class from the purple book, as well as some of the chorales. I also reviewed the scale study that we did as a playing test at the beginning of the year since i hadn't played it in a while; I still found that this came easy to me and was super comftorable playing it. Then, as usual, i reviewed the chromatic study on page 9 and spent some time working mainly on lines 3, 4, and 5. 1 and 2 are really easy, and comftorable for me now.

After that i went through the Holst suite and did a fair bit of work on the picky things such as accent placement, and dynamics. I find that the rhythms and notes are really comftorable now and i can beging working on playing it "musically". The only section where notes are somewhat of an issue is the second section of the first movement, simply because the high A and B flat are really awkward and shrill; so i spent some time reviewing that just by starting slow and biilding up the tempo. Its still not exactly where i want it to be but its coming along, with a little more practice i should be able to play the riffs with the A and B flat with ease.

After this i went back and played through some of our old band rep like rhosymedre, rumble, light eternal and fusion just for fun. I still really enjoy playing these pieces and find that they are good just to play through for practice sometimes.

After that i sporadically came back to practicing throughout the day and just ran through rep, such as holst and pirates. as well as scores to random songs that i looked up when i was bored:)
Overall it was a good day of practice.

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