Saturday, September 13, 2008

Day ?

I want to figure out how many days I have played consecutively and start counting them. Rick said once that he had played every day for something like the last 3,000 days and that really struck me. I want to do that. If I am traveling and I practice with my mouthpiece, does that count?

Notes for tomorrow:
  • Allegro piece. Doing well. Start by practicing that last line, but get the flow in my head first - in 2.
  • Bill Tell, do tell ... played the whole thing, just work on it every day until I start to get cleaner down on the double-tonguing at that low C, and learn to play the coda ending.
  • Played through everything else that was my goal, but my mouth gave out 50 minutes in, working on the top part of the "After a Trial" duet. Feel fine on Hansel & Gretel, and on my itty-bitty Mahler part. I was real methodical about getting the rhythm in the Mahler, it's a little bit that is on the off beat.
Good practice, good practice.

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