Day 51, Round 2

It's my 51st straight day of practice.

I had a lovely 35-minute lunchtime practice while home from my meditation program. I warmed up and worked on Peter and the Wolf ... darn, I wish I could figure out how to write in Russian in this blog, I have a DVD from a friend with the title written in Russian. Питер и волк ... Cool! I copied it from google translator ... and of course I have no idea if that is correct. What my friend wrote on my DVD was: Перт и волк ... but he was not sure if that was correct, either (he only knows a little Russian).

I used my keyboard, too, to try to get this sound locked into my brain. Sometimes I wonder if there's a disadvantage with the trombone in that we don't too often get melody so have to figure out what something is supposed to sound like without the benefit of it being a melodious little lick. I'm not complaining, just musing.

Anyway, tonight when I got home I watched/listened to the DVD twice to get a better sense of how my parts sound. What a story! The poor duck! The poor little Peter!

But, I feel freed to play in my practice tonight - I'll warm up, work on my Beeler, then duets, then tenor clef, and if I have lips left over, I'll return to that old wolf.