I was really proud of our successes in musicfest and am really hoping that we make the decision to travel to nationals, howvere when i practiced tonight i decided to omit running the band rep just because thats what i have played/heard for the past 3days:)
Tonight i really focussed on rhytrhms and scales.
I did the rhythm study on a concert B flat in the back of the blue book and took my time really focussing in on some of the harder rhythms for each time signature. Things such as triplets and rhythms with 16th rests that i sometimes found myself having to think about before i would play them. I want to be at a level of playing where when i am sightreading i am able to just jump right in as opposed to picking through some of the rhythms in my head before hand.
I also went back and reviewed some of the chromatic scale study since it had been a while. I looked at 1 and 2 again, and i found that they came pretty comftorably; then i also reviewed 3 and 4 which are still somewhat shayky but i am going to continue working on them. I still find sharps somewhat awkward to read and that i have to think about them/think of them in flats whereas with flats i can just play them. I plan to keep working on this though until sharps are close, if not just as comftorable as flats are.
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