slow but steady?

Yesterday (Sunday) I was all fired up to do a warmup early in the day and have a good long practice later in the day, but the day took over and I never had my good long practice.

Today I had a bunch of errands to run at lunch so I took a two-hour lunch (there goes my leave) and part of my lunch was a sweet little warmup. Now I've been having my good long end-of-day practice - what I meant to happen yesterday on my day-off Sunday.

I worked again on Camelot tonight. Short rehearsal periods are kind of tough. If you don't know the material well (like me) it can be a slog practicing - just working on rhythm patterns, but not knowing how it fits musically. The best practices of all are in rehearsals because I can hear where my music fits. But when the rehearsal cycle is short ...

I focused again on knowing the beat, staying with the beat. I did really well until I hit triplet quarter notes, which are just plain hard for me. I know I can get them because I get triplet eighth notes, but I finally (figuratively) threw up my hands on the triplet quarter notes. I feel like a klutz with them. Like walking and chewing gum. :)

Rehearsal tomorrow. I cooked this weekend and tonight, trying to stack up the meals because I have rehearsals every night for the rest of the week.