March 29

I practiced for 35mins today. I practiced the 3rd and 4th chromatic scales. I practiced this for 10mins. I have mastered the notes and am going to be working on the sluring next time I practice. I should have it mastered next time I practice. I then praticed the D concert scale. I know all of the notes, and im working on becoming as fluent witht his scale as I am with a G concert scale. I practiced the arpegio, scale study and chorale for 15mins. I then practiced the third movement of the Holst piece. I have almost all of the notes down, but am still playing it a bit under tempo so I can work on the notes with the rythms. I should master this section in 1-2weeks.

March 24

I practiced for 30mins today. I spent 10 mins working on the chromatic scales to help improve my note fluency. I can play 85% of numbers 3 and 4 but am having still haviong trouble with a couple with a few notes in the key signature. I wrote the note names in the book but will erase them sometime next week.I the worked on the gb scale and worked on the case study and mastered all the slurs, notes and accents and will be moving on to the next case study next time I practice. I practiced Second Suite and worked on my notes, especially my lower register in movement 4. With a couple more practices the lower register should become fluent for me and I should be able to play 90% of movement 4.

March 3rd

I practiced for 40mins today. I spent 20mins working on the chromatic scales and the gb concert minor scale. I have almost mastered the four chromatic scales, I only need to work on a couple of more sharps to become fluent with them. I am having a bit of trouble with the Scale Study in the gb minor scale but I have been slowing down the tempo to work on the slurs and proper rythmes. The band piece I worked on was Second Suite, and I tried playing the 1st movement today. I especially focused on Part C. and slowed down the tempo to get all the notes.By next week I should have mastered the right notes in the 1st movement.

March 2nd

I practiced for 30mins today. I spent 15 mins owrking on the different scales. I especially worked on # 3 and 4 of the chromatic scales as I have not mastered them, like the first two chromatic scales. When doing this I also reviewed a couple of my sharp fingerings. The chromatic scales are going well, I need a little more practice to be fluent with them. I worked on the 4th movement of Holst. Im slowing down my tempo to work on the notes but will bring it up with more pratice over the next couple weeks. I also practiced Pirates of the Carribean for fun!