Yesterday 83, today 84

Today I plan to come home at lunch to practice, and that will make my 84th straight day of practice.

Last night I was gentle in my practice, very little high range work. Quite a lot of new material from my last lesson, so I worked on that slowly and methodically. This is sometimes a hard task, because you don't necessarily get a sense of the music by carefully working on it, but I am really finding it to be the case that if you can play it slowly, you can play it at the up-tempo, and if you can't play it slowly, you can't play it well! Just like my teachers have always said.

So the task is, keep my interest while I am working on the new material. Mix it up.

My lunchtime goal today is to just do a warmup - maybe the Michael Davis warmup, speaking of mixing it up - and then to play through the new commissioned work by Thomas so that I can give him feedback. If I have any time left over, I will work on the Shostakovich.