Use that trigger

When I was at the Chamber Music program at Humboldt, Billy Robinson came up to me one night after our performance and told me that I was not taking advantage of the trigger. My slide was zooming back and forth and I was not taking advantage of alternate positions that are possible with the trigger. That was one of the amazing things about that program, you'd have these amazing musicians watching you and listening to you and just giving you tips, out of the blue.

So I was just working on this one goofy little allegreto Beeler exercise, and it has actually been a thorn in my side. It's not the most pleasing thing to play - not bad, but bouncing all over the place. I've worked on it for a long time. Tonight I was working it with the metronome and it was quite rough (because I'd added the metronome) and I suddenly decided to add more notes with the trigger. Wow! Much better flow of several little passages.

I do have a Blume "36 exercises with F attachment" which gets you playing notes in alternate F-attach positions, but I'm always so busy working on upcoming pieces, etc. that I have not managed to incorporate it into my routine.

Good practice tonight. I'm going to eat some dinner and then I'll get back to practicing some more.