OK, I just practiced again for about 35 minutes. Here's a thought about two practices a day. I worked very hard in my earlier practice, oh, for about an hour. Tonight I did a nice long warm-up and just plain got tired of working hard on my material again. But it's not a lazy tired. My class has begun for the semester and it requires a lot of work. I have a demanding job, made even more demanding this week by hard travel and by complications due to the hiring freeze. I just need a certain amount of down time when I'm not working hard, and when I am working on material like this for the upcoming concert, I am working hard.
Two practices a day are a great idea. Doing it moves my playing ability forward significantly. I think, though, that my goal might need to be for one of the practices to be easy - warmup, scales, one exercise maybe. I got too exhausted last fall. Granted, there was a lot more material to work on, but still, much as I want to play better, I have to balance.
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