Wednesday, November 12, 2008

perfect practice

30 minutes. Perfect. Warmed up, good high range work, good but limited pedal work, then to add one more nuance to the high range, I poked around and found an easy song to play that incorporates that troublesome G. I have Jolly Good Fellow in treble clef, so I played that up down an octave first to get the sound in my head, then up an octave to dance around with that G. It also has the A in it and I found it very productive to work on.

Also fun to sight read in treble clef. I think I am breaking through with my clef issue. All my sight singing has been in treble clef, and then with all the tenor clef work from the symphony concert, plus also working now on taking a treble clef piece and adding two flats and then playing that in tenor clef ... the little mind barriers are falling, one by one. The bass clef castle is crumbling and we now have a field of varied clefs dancing around on that wrinkled gray surface ...

Off to work ...

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