Saturday, September 27, 2008

29 minutes

I warmed up and worked on the Beeler Allegreto top part and 29 minutes into it started having trouble getting what I wanted. STOP. Embouchure needs a rest. This timing is going to prove quite educational.

It is also interesting in that it makes me realize how much I am jumping up to race off and do other things while I am "practicing." Cleaning my slide - I made myself do it before I started, as I knew as soon as I started playing it would bug me and then that would eat into my practice time. I had a stray thought while playing that I needed to email Roger about Billy from San Francisco - made myself jot a note rather than jump up and send the email. Had a stray thought that now that I have the Zeno slide back I need to restart on the Blume F-attachment exercises (this and the email about Billy are related in the nether reaches of my brain as Billy is the one that told me that I need to be using that trigger) ... but I made myself stay focused on the exercise at hand.

Hmmmmmm.

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