practice, resumed

Scale exercise #4: 40 in 4.

p. 7 Allegro piece: Next time, work that last low line slowly, get the low notes right, get the C's right. Then play the whole thing smoothly. In 2. It went better today, though.

Duets: After a Trial by Muller, did not care for much. Played the top line of Petite Waltz by Korda, liked it better.

Finally, the Mahler! Lots and lots and lots of rests. The score is in German and they have an interesting way of indicating multiple measures of rests - sideways bar is one rest, vertical bar is two, vertical bar across two spaces is four. Ah, and because it is in German, I am playing a posaune on this piece. ;)

• Is ffp like sfz? After the 25 in the first movement.
• At 33 in the first movement, melodically this will be good to go to the high notes but the A will be a stretch ... work on it, but wait until I get the Zeno back to see how I can hit it on that instrument.

I didn't make it all the way through the Mahler before my mouth gave out on me, so I did not do:

• Run through Hansel & Gretel
• Play a beautiful solo.

Student symphony reading rehearsal tomorrow evening and errands at noon, so likely no time for practicing this material tomorrow.