Soo this is going to be a long one since its for the whole weeek;
i woud practice then get really busy and never got around to blogging.
Monday!
monday night i brought my flute home with me and practiced for the band exam requirements; i wasnt aware that we had to play both sections so i wonly practiced bars 43-55 in chillers and thrillers. Then i ran through my usual stuff such as the chromatics and scles etc. as well as the stuff for the chamber ensemble. We had 3 of our 4 songs picked out at that point in time to i ran through those 3 and then went through the rest of the book looking for what other song we could play as our fourth. That was about it; priacticed for a total of 15-20minutes on monday.
Tuesday!
my flute was at home still since i was on a field trip during the day; i went through what i had rehersed the day before and finally decidecd on a fourth song with my group so i practiced that as well. i went over the band requirements again and then i wasnt relly in the mood to do scales and such so i played through a few ofthem but then i went back and played through some of our older band rep for fun since we dont have tuesday and thursday for that anymore. I also began rehersing some of the class exam stuff too; i find that i am having some difficulty with the study in the red book because it has a lot of awkwadr rhythms; and im not sure of the tempo. im hoping that we will ply it together as a class once so that we can hear it and feel the speed you want it to go at. I also ran though the chromatics and dont find them too hard its just keeping a consistent flow from scale to scale that can be somewhat tricky. After that i stopped for the night practicing a total of about 40mins.
Wednesday!
Wednesday we had coffee house so i didnt get a chance to do any extensive practice. For the record, i thought coffee house went really well despite the length i think it was a nice way to end the year.
Ps. played the band exam today; unaware that we had to play both sections so i was really prepared for the first part but not so much for the second part. The rhythms in the second section are really easy except for the one bar which i cant play to save my life no matter how many times i tried it. Overall, i think it went decently though.
Thursday!
So for thursday i mainly focussed on playing the stuff for our class exam. I started out doing the E minor scale in thirds and learning that ascending and descending which i find to be fairly easy aside from the D sharp which i sometimes miss; im going to work some more on that until its really solid. Then i moved onto the chromatic stuff, i find most of the patterns really easy to play aside from the odd 1 such as ascending number 3 which i stumble over sometimes. Then i moved onto the study which i still have trouble with because of the awkward patterns//im not sure if im playing it right? ill ask you on monday to play it as a class just to ensure things such as the tempo etc. Aside from that im feeling fairly comftorable for the class exam; i dont think it will be too bad never theless im still going to continue practicing all this weekend//next week to be sure that everything is solid when i go to play. Total of about 40minutes thursday night.
Saturday, May 30, 2009
Friday, May 15, 2009
Practice schudule #21
So i practiced breifly just before i came in to work here tonight,
Started out with some scales and stuff just as a warm up and then played through their relative minors still working on being able to ID key signatures with relative ease; especially in prep for doing orchestrations next year.
Then i ran through study #4 in the red book just as a refresher, and to work on getting quick articulation going.
Then i rna through the band pieces specifically focussing on counting the 5/4 section in chillers and thriller because i find that i always come in a beat eraly or a beat late. Then i looked at the monotonous section in Carmina Burana and just worked out counting out how many times we repeat because i find myself either falling inot a pattern and not counting at all or just simply getting lost in the music; either way it always comes as a surprise to me when we switch over to the other secion. I played them through once each and then i had to leave for work.
about a half hour overall.
planning on practicing some more this long weekend!
:)
PS. really pleased with nationals. It was lots of fun even though i was dead tired by today haha, im really glad we took the opportunity and did it though!
Started out with some scales and stuff just as a warm up and then played through their relative minors still working on being able to ID key signatures with relative ease; especially in prep for doing orchestrations next year.
Then i ran through study #4 in the red book just as a refresher, and to work on getting quick articulation going.
Then i rna through the band pieces specifically focussing on counting the 5/4 section in chillers and thriller because i find that i always come in a beat eraly or a beat late. Then i looked at the monotonous section in Carmina Burana and just worked out counting out how many times we repeat because i find myself either falling inot a pattern and not counting at all or just simply getting lost in the music; either way it always comes as a surprise to me when we switch over to the other secion. I played them through once each and then i had to leave for work.
about a half hour overall.
planning on practicing some more this long weekend!
:)
PS. really pleased with nationals. It was lots of fun even though i was dead tired by today haha, im really glad we took the opportunity and did it though!
Monday, May 11, 2009
lalala.
Ps. im going to appologize in advance as i know that i wont be doing too much practicing this week since i have 2tests, an essay due, a report due and a presentation on top of all the nationals craziness and usual rehersals! im really excited for this week but im not sure how much extra time im going to have..
Practice schudule 20!
Came home today with the flute.
did a couple of the studies from the red and purple book as warm up, mainly the nes that we did in class. I tried doing the exercse that we began in class a couple days ago and it was actually a challenge and i found that i really had to count out what i was doing.
then i moved on to band rep for nationals tomorrow
i ran through the light eternal, rumble, and breifly rhosymedre. I can sufficiently play these in my sleep now:) haha. but i still enjoy playing them.
i then worked on our current band rep, playing through chillers and thrillers and working specifically on therhythms and accidentals. I find that this is a fairly easy song to play,
finally i played through usion just bevause i like it and its fun.
Overall about 25minutes.
did a couple of the studies from the red and purple book as warm up, mainly the nes that we did in class. I tried doing the exercse that we began in class a couple days ago and it was actually a challenge and i found that i really had to count out what i was doing.
then i moved on to band rep for nationals tomorrow
i ran through the light eternal, rumble, and breifly rhosymedre. I can sufficiently play these in my sleep now:) haha. but i still enjoy playing them.
i then worked on our current band rep, playing through chillers and thrillers and working specifically on therhythms and accidentals. I find that this is a fairly easy song to play,
finally i played through usion just bevause i like it and its fun.
Overall about 25minutes.
Sunday, May 3, 2009
Practice Blog 18, 19
So this is the blog for all of last week(:
Starting with Tuesday night, i brought home my flute after choir rehersal and ran through the D flat study for the test that we had on firday, i found that i waas having some difficulties with the articulation pattern of the study getting the slurred articulation and then staccatto, however the scale itself if comftorable to play. I foudn that the more difficult part was the descend so i started there and began playing each bar slowly and repeatedly, building upon the last one. I found that this helped but it still wasnt where i wanted it. After that i decided to practice fusion just becauseit is a really fun piece to play and i lovelovelove the melody, especuially in the fourth movement. It kinda sucks that we didnt get the chance to play that this year, i think if we had the time it would have sounded awesome full ensemble. After that i ran some of the other band rep in preparation for nationals in a few weeks, and then finally rna some of the class stuff like Carmina Burana and pirates of the carribean. I specifically worked on some of the rhythm stuff in Carmina Burana especially the sixteenth note riffs because they go very fast and are just technical. In total i believe that this was about a half hours worth of practice.
I also practiced Thursday nighht in preparation for the test on friday. I spent a bulk of time working on the study as it still wasnt where i wanted it in terms of comfort level. I broke it down again and then ran it a few times. I have no clue what happened in that test: i was really dissappointed in myself actually, because i was plating it fine and then randomly i made really stupid mistakes. I think i need to do some owrk on pacing, because sometimes especially in test situations i will find myself planning on playing it one tempo and then taking off and doing it twice as fast. That could have been what threw me on friday because i wasn't planning on playing it anywhere near that speed; and ended up rushing. After working on the study for a bit i went through and did some scale stuff kinda testing myself because i want to become really quick with my keysignatures so i would figure out what was in the key before i played it. Then after that i was bored and found some sheet music on the internet and played through those for a while. Did some band rep work, specifically Carmina Burana and that was everything. I think it was about 45minutes in total.
Starting with Tuesday night, i brought home my flute after choir rehersal and ran through the D flat study for the test that we had on firday, i found that i waas having some difficulties with the articulation pattern of the study getting the slurred articulation and then staccatto, however the scale itself if comftorable to play. I foudn that the more difficult part was the descend so i started there and began playing each bar slowly and repeatedly, building upon the last one. I found that this helped but it still wasnt where i wanted it. After that i decided to practice fusion just becauseit is a really fun piece to play and i lovelovelove the melody, especuially in the fourth movement. It kinda sucks that we didnt get the chance to play that this year, i think if we had the time it would have sounded awesome full ensemble. After that i ran some of the other band rep in preparation for nationals in a few weeks, and then finally rna some of the class stuff like Carmina Burana and pirates of the carribean. I specifically worked on some of the rhythm stuff in Carmina Burana especially the sixteenth note riffs because they go very fast and are just technical. In total i believe that this was about a half hours worth of practice.
I also practiced Thursday nighht in preparation for the test on friday. I spent a bulk of time working on the study as it still wasnt where i wanted it in terms of comfort level. I broke it down again and then ran it a few times. I have no clue what happened in that test: i was really dissappointed in myself actually, because i was plating it fine and then randomly i made really stupid mistakes. I think i need to do some owrk on pacing, because sometimes especially in test situations i will find myself planning on playing it one tempo and then taking off and doing it twice as fast. That could have been what threw me on friday because i wasn't planning on playing it anywhere near that speed; and ended up rushing. After working on the study for a bit i went through and did some scale stuff kinda testing myself because i want to become really quick with my keysignatures so i would figure out what was in the key before i played it. Then after that i was bored and found some sheet music on the internet and played through those for a while. Did some band rep work, specifically Carmina Burana and that was everything. I think it was about 45minutes in total.
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