We played Dixieland music at Big Blue this morning and that was the most fun, not to mention quite the good embouchure workout. So my morning practice was swinging on Dixieland jazz, and my evening practice will be a good warmup and Shostie Shostie Shostie.
I am telling all my friends about this concert because I am so thrilled about this music. I do believe this might be my favorite music I have ever played. There is just something about the way that man put notes together. I don't know how he did it, but the result knocks my socks off every time I play it.
Oh, and by the way, I passed my 3-year anniversary on the trombone while I was flying around Alaska, on January 28.
August 2009 goals
Technique.
Don't overcommit.
Keep loving playing.
Don't overcommit.
Keep loving playing.
About Me
- Michelle Bonnet
- I bought my first trombone on January 28, 2006. I'm a chemist by education and trade but I do IT now. I lived in the Bush when I was a kid and life was very different then & there.
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- work work work
- Dixieland!
- Only a warmup
- the longest day
- My matrix
- 130th day
- 2x/day - it works
- Change
- Ow
- 2 practices
- talk about bustin' some chops
- True to my promise
- tonguing, clean legato, 2 practices a day
- another late practice
- inaugural practice
- love weekend practices
- and again
- Day 121
- buzz
- Shostie Sectional
- nap
- WOW! What a good mood rehearsal gives
- Oops, Monday
- 4th movement
- 2nd movement on Saturday
- THAT WAS A TRIP
- Truth
- the trombone
- 111 feels magical
- Perfect first rehearsal
- All the way through
- when motivation is hard to find, pick up the horn
- My social life is so getting in the way
- beep beep beep
- I caught her, my muse
- It is hard to sit down and practice, sometimes
- Auld Acquaintance
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July 2009 goals
1. Use July and August as space to work on my technique.
2. Be very careful about what I agree to play, so I don't get into another overcommitment situation.
3. Work on my legato, clean starts and ends of notes, playing beautifully, playing with dynamics.
4. Impress Jack when I have my next lesson. :)
2. Be very careful about what I agree to play, so I don't get into another overcommitment situation.
3. Work on my legato, clean starts and ends of notes, playing beautifully, playing with dynamics.
4. Impress Jack when I have my next lesson. :)
May 2009 goals
Work on my low notes.
Improve my tonguing. Clean tonguing. Get away from this smearing between notes.
Improve my tonguing. Clean tonguing. Get away from this smearing between notes.
April 2009 goals
Play less material, practice as much or more, and play my material well. Play it well.
March 2009 goals
G Every Day:
Do D-E-F-G-A-G-F-E-D.
Long tones in the C-D-E-F neighborhood.
Work octaves from top to bottom as well as bottom to top.
Pedal practice Every Day.
Do D-E-F-G-A-G-F-E-D.
Long tones in the C-D-E-F neighborhood.
Work octaves from top to bottom as well as bottom to top.
Pedal practice Every Day.
February 2009 goals
In a word, slow it down and get it right.
Not too different from January. Slow it down and get it right. I will not play perfectly by the time I die, so let's just try to play well, now.
Not too different from January. Slow it down and get it right. I will not play perfectly by the time I die, so let's just try to play well, now.
January 2009 goals
Simple goal this month: To play everything as well and as beautifully as possible. Slow things down in practice in order to play them well.
Remember that the point of the instrument is to sound beautiful. So, do it.
Remember that the point of the instrument is to sound beautiful. So, do it.
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