And another 45 ...

I think if I had 4 hours a day to practice, it would still not be enough. This is an interesting exercise, to just up and decide to learn the trombone as an adult. What was I thinking? Not to trivialize any other instruments, but the trombone seems to be a particularly odd choice. I mean, it is so noisy when you play wrong! Which I do with astonishing frequency!

I hope I get this house as I am so looking forward to being alone in a big house just playing out ... though I must say, I play pretty loudly here, too, and I have endlessly patient neighbors.

Well, I finished my backwards practice, including some repetition of the work earlier today, on the Berlioz. Then moved on to Hansel & Gretel and I think I played the part I was focusing on nicely. Though I am still making some mistakes, and this is so not a complicated piece to play. Most of my mistakes, I would say, are arising from me playing it in tenor clef but I want to keep doing that to enforce my recognition of that clef. I have other pieces in tenor clef and I must keep carving those little neural tenor clef pathways in my gray matter.

Then I finished with Hexenritt, backwards practicing it too (I forward played Hansel & Gretel), all the way. I like this piece!

Then 9 pm happened, the witching hour (no pun!) ... and a glass of Malbec and a little mindless TV before bedtime, and do it all over again tomorrow. Sigh.