Practice Schudule #4

As last week was busy with semi prep i slightly slacked off on the parcticing however, i plan to make up that time with extra parctice this week. Tonight i practiced for 20minutes mainly focussing on the scale study that we have to play for our test on Thursday f this week. First i began with a warm up review of the b flat scale and g minor harmonic scale on pages 10 and 11. then i reviewed the chromatic scales. From practice before class as well as before the test I am finding that it is becoming increasingly easier to play the chromatic scales with fluidity - though they're not 100% up to where i woud like them to be come final exam time so i plan on continuing to work on them. I now feel comftorable with the notes so tonight i specifically worked on the articulation pattern really tyring to perfect the slurs and re-articulations. I find that it is still slightly incomsistent (e.g. i will be good for 2 bars, lose it for 1, then gradually get it back until the end) so i slowed it down which helped me. Then i spent the bulk of the remaining practice time working on the scale study which we have to play for our test Thursday. I did so by continuing the exercise we started in class where you play the bars separately and then piece them together as you go. I found that this method helped me and that i was able to play the study comftorably, with fludity right away. I ended off by running through the pieces for band and finxing some minor problem areas, such as the chromatic riff at 205 in rumble on the high planes and the d flats in the second part of the first movement of holst suite.