FRIDAY APRIL 13
Did Tech assignment
Starbucks with Matt
YouTube videos with Austen, Spencer, and Chris
Answering Bethany’s philosophical question
Research on color and sound
Tumbling
MONDAY MARCH 27//
Breathing Challenge:
- Breath Builder 3
- Breathing Bag relaxed, 1/1, 1/3, .5/3.5, .25/3.75, tongue quarter, eighth, sixteenth from 60-108
- Spirometer
WEDNESDAY MARCH 14
7 am warm-up
8 ear training
9 lesson
9:45 practice, etc.
every little thing is going to be alright
WEDNESDAY MARCH 28
Yesterday was hard.
Breathing Challenge 30 min
Bb minor 20 min.
Played with Park View during class and jammed with Nick for about 30 minutes.
THURSDAY MARCH 16
I think I’ve reached a point in my practicing where I know what I need to work on each day to make 2.5-3 hours of practice time happen. It’s kind of freeing to not be writing down all those numbers. I really feel… like I’m growing up.
If no one ever reads this… That’s okay. But I just want to say that I have never felt this way before.
I care about things. I care about music and the way that I sound and the things that I know and I care about education and I care about children and war and there are so many things that I desperately want to make happen during my lifetime…
I’ve never cared so much about so much.
I feel real.
Today
- Full warm-up
- Character Study 6 sections A and B at 76
- Solo melodies - wind patterns
- Solo end cadenza
- solo beginning cadenza
- Mead - pg 2
TUESDAY MARCH 13//
Today was a hard day. Like. It was a good day. Lesson was awesome. But I was going straight from 7 am until 9 pm. I kinda took a break from about 10-11. But I need to practice. So I’ll make it happen.
pedal tones, bb, warm-up, clarke solo,
MONDAY MARCH 12// 2 hr. 40 min.
So Spring Break happened. I slept about 12 hours a day (usually from about 4 am - 4 pm) and practiced about an hour a day. I also helped out at Mr. Miles’ 5th grade band night and got all inspired about teaching.
I had a terrible time trying to sleep last night - my schedule is off. My roommate had the room way too warm. I will work for 12 hours and then sleep for 9 hours.
Also, I am in a bad mood today. I woke up feeling not like I was home, but more like a kid waking up at summer camp. I feel very immature and childish and young and ignorant. I want to feel old. I want to feel worn and experienced. I feel like I have never experienced a thing. It’s a terrible mood. I can’t stand it. I can’t wait to take a road trip this summer.
I love Second Suite by Holst.
10:31-10:33 BB
10:36-10:46, 10:52-11:02, alternate warm-up routine
11:16-11:17 BB
11:18-11:25, 11:28-11:38, 1146-11:50 alternate warm-up routine ctd.
45 min
6:23-6:33, 6:41-6:48, 7:03-7:13, 7:15-7:28
7:47-7:54, 8:01-8:09, 8:15-8:19 minor scales and arps - Bb, B, C, Db
9:15-9:35, 10:30-11:00 reviewing rep: Rochut 32, Andante, Rhapsody, Tyrell 2, Clarke Solo melodies.
11:13-11:23 warm-down
I have fashioned my own warm-up by the way. A mix of Vining, Clarke, and Arban studies. My problem with doing all of the Vining, then all Clarkes, then all Arban studies was that I always felt very tense and not flexible at all after doing the routine. By doing more close range slurring before I slur P4s and P5s, my lips stay very relaxed.
- Long Tone Half Step Exercise,
- Vining I 2,
- Clarke 1 ped C - mid Bb,
- Clarke 2 mid Bb - low Bb,
- Arban Arpeggio Ex. Minor,
- Arban Flow Study,
- Vining I 3a, 3b, 4, 5, 6a, 6b,
- Minor Scales with Arps Chromatically from ped Bb,
- Vining I 7a, 7b.
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Today was Ca-Ra-Zy. It started SO bad. I was just angry all morning. But then we had master class, and I got a little pumped up about playing. We improvised in piano, I had a Starbucks conversation with Piscitelli about education for about 2 hours, and I sounded SO lovely in my practice sessions. Chris and I had a talk about plans for the summer, and I’m just … I’m very passionate about life today. I need to keep having good conversations and thinking exciting thoughts and attending master classes that will inspire me about things. The more I can hold on to this feeling, the better.
Places I have found Sanctuary:
- the bathroom
- my bed
- the practice room
The last one is SO nice too, because when I walk into a practice room, my body automatically relaxes, and I get to do whatever I want, and everything is about me.
Everything is good.
Life is good.
Time for sleep.
