April 21st

I practiced for 30mins today. I started off by playing C Concert scale for 5mins. This scale is almost 100% for me, and with one more week of practice I should have mastered it. These sharps are all very familiar for me but playing them all together, at a fast tempo can be very hard so I am really working on the scale in thirds and picking up the tempo every time I play it. The scale went well. I then played study no.4 again like last week. I still have not mastered this sutdy, but I think with 1 or 2 more practices it should be GOLDEN for me. I practiced this for 15mins. This study is challenging for me because it uses a lot of rythm patterns I am not used to , but if I keep playing this study they will become second nature for me. This study is going preety good for me. I then played Rumble on the High Plains for 10mins. I quickly ran through the important parts in the piece as I have not played it in a while. I especially practiced bars 51 to 62 to make sure I can still play all the right notes. I then practiced bars 175 to 194, and this went well. I played these sections because they are the hardest in the piece and if we play it in kiwanis. I need to be 150% fluent with them.