Thursday, October 9, 2008

Which is more musical, a truck passing by a factory or a truck passing by a music school?

So I need to start by correcting my quote from yesterday. The quote was from Sir Thomas Carlyle, not Benjamin Britten.

Today was a great day. While I did not meet many of my goals set the other day, it is a step in the right direction. The great thing about today was that I was able to practice plenty of horn and plenty of piano. I was also able to read a lot of the Reynolds Horn Handbook, Froydis, and Doug Hill. I applied most of it in my evening practise session. (I like the European spelling of practise).

10/7/2008
8:00 AM
Breathe - 5
Buzz - 5
LT - 5
Flexies - 5
Scales - 5
Alphonse - 5
Kopprasch - 5
Morceau - 5
Horn Fantasy - 5

4:00 PM
Breathe - 5
Buzz - 3
air - 2
LT - 5
Flexies - 5
Scales - 5
Alphonse - 5
Mosaico - 5
Kopp - 5
Morceau - 10
Fantasy - 10
WD - 5

10/8/2008
11:00 AM
Breathe - 5
Buzz - 3
Air - 2
LT - 3
Flexies - 5
Scales - 5
Pottag - 5
Morceau Intro - 2
Fantasy Intro - 3

Lesson
C-flat and C-sharp Major
F-sharp and C minor
Circle - Fun Inversions!
Orch Excerpt: Beethoven 6
Flexies: Morceau mm 69 in all keys
Pottag 68

1:00 PM
Mosaico - 10
Prague - 5
Las Vegas - 5
Pottag - 5

8:50 PM
Breathe - 5
Buzz - 2
LT - 3
Familiar Tune: "A Mighty Fortress"
Dynamics + Tuning (Reynolds) - 5
Flexies - 5
Morceau 69 - 5
Scales - 5
Kopp Transposition - 5
Pottag - 5
McCoy - 5
Beethoven 6 - 10
Horn Fantasy - 10
Warm Down - 5

I was able to stay very focused on horn today and partly yesterday. I had a few personal issues, but I found that if I didn't think about them and did something else, I would be fine. I went to the Chamber Concert on Tuesday and I absolutely love the Brahms Trio. My lesson today went very well. My scales did not go as well as I had hoped because I wasn't using enough air. I felt I made some great improvements on the variations in Morceau. I also started an orchestral excerpt as well, which is very exciting. I'm finally putting my $100 Thompson Edition to good use. My evening session was very experimental. I read the entire Reynolds section on practising and applied his dynamics and tuning exercise and his idea to have the first thing you play be a familiar melody so that you establish musicianship right away. This seemed to work and I focused on having a beautiful sound constantly. I believe that is it for tonight and I will hopefully be writing tomorrow.

Quote: John Cage

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