Just at 2 minutes before 9 tonight, I got my beautiful trombone out of its case and played for 4 minutes. I played a little passage from Peer Gynt from memory, working about 20 notes over and over, playing by ear, trying to make each note, each transition between notes, beautiful. Making the natural slurs as perfect as possible but beautiful, too, and legato on the other notes smooth, pretty, pretty.
I just practiced a little bit each day while I was gone and so was feeling ... oh, maybe low, that I can't play as well as I would like. I read something today on the trombone forum today, though, about practice, and this one person said make it sound good, that is the whole point. So my tiny practice tonight was to make it sound good and to enjoy myself.
I am home now from my trip to Wrangell, as of the 6:15 am arrival time of the Malaspina, so I will get back to a more regular practice now.
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