It was a bit strange having a lesson on monday last week, but the lesson ended up pretty well. The rest of the week, on the other hand, not so well. I've been SO busy this week (two exams on monday plus an exam on Tuesday, plus a concert last thursday and rehearsals all over the place). After all this work going to the Wind Ensemble concert tonight was a much needed break.
It's not that practice hours were low, but I just could not focus on what I needed to like I usually can.
For the first time this semester, I feel like I haven't really improved much from the last lesson. On technique, I couldn't quite play my scales at 120 yet for the most part, and I was so unfocused that I had to make the executive decision of just focusing on the upper half of the circle of fifths for this week (up to 3 sharps and 3 flats). Even then, I didn't manage to get all of those scales up to 120 yet, and the tonic chord arppeggios aren't at 112 yet either.
This is largely due to me just not having enough time to work on scales. I just had too much new music to learn this week, with an etude, the debussy, the piece for Keith Miller's recital in a few weeks, the mozart piece for the festival, and new symphonic band music.
I did manage to get a good bit done with the cavallini etude and I know the debussy to the point where it's recognizeable at least, so at least I'm prepared enough for the lesson this week. Hopefully this next week will be much better for me with the lower amount of studying I have to do.
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