January 2003
Practiced for 3 1/2 hours tonight. Not as much as I have been recently, but it was good practice. I have my minidisk recorder there recording most of it (I highly recommend these devices). I hear the Tchaikovsky is getting better, but its a pain. Slowly its getting better. Hopefully it will get Feliciatized this friday after my lesson with Felicia. She always has the answer (so does Jack Daniels and Captain Morgan...both of whom are paying a visit tonight ;)
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Just got back with Philharmonic rehearsal. Uggh, I'm tired and my head hurts. Tomorrow I get to teach the little kiddies how to play the violin (Yay!). Then I teach a viola lesson.
I played Tchaikovsky in studio class again today. It's getting better and better. Everytime I play it I hear something new, new ideas. Hope Felicia can give me a boost at my first lesson on the piece *fingers crosses*Well, that's all for me.
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my head hurts again. why do we practice?
I need some asprin
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Well, this friday I came to my girl's house. She's not a serious musician (she plays clarinet), but she loves music. She'll sometimes call when I'm practicing and ask me to play for her over the phone. Its funny because no one has ever asked for me to play for them. So I get to her house friday night and she tells me "play tchaikovsky for me". My teacher just started me with this piece 3 weeks ago, so it's not great yet, but my girl still wanted to hear it. I played, it sucked (the accoustics in her room sucked up all the sound) and I put the violin away. She had a big smile on her face. It was nice to see that even though I didn't play very good it still made someone happy.
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