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.