This was a sort of busy week. With the symphonic band concert tomorrow night, I've had a bit of a tougher time focusing on my lesson work. I did still get a lot of practice in, but my mind wasn't there 100% of the time.
I don't feel like I made as much progress this week as I did these last two weeks. Not that I didn't get to practice enough or that I think I didn't improve at all, but I can't really notice as much of a diference in my playing like before (that could be a good thing, of course).
My main focus this week was to work on keeping a steady tongue position... that's surprisingly difficult to do! It seems that I can last for about 4-7 measures at a time right now, depending on the song, but after that I need to take a break to reset tongue position and embouchure. It also gets worse as I keep practicing, and by the end of my practice sessions I can only last a measure or two, and some times I have trouble doing it at all if I practice for a long time.
I guess this just means that I need to work on stamina/endurance now.
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