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Positive update!!

January 31, 2009 at 4:36 AM

Hello, everyone!  I hope you're having a good day.  It's been a while since I've written a blog here and there's good reason for it:  I've been practicing like crazy!!  So, I've been approaching each practice session with a better attitude and it seems to be working.  Instead of wondering what will work and go well, I've been expecting everything to go well.  Of course, not everything does go well but it keeps me more motivated and happy when more goes better than a few days ago.  Yes, my Bruch is improving quite a bit, which is good since I have my first grad school audition this Monday.  Just a few days ago, I was pretty nervous because some things were just not working but I set foward to work on them slowly, and in many rhythmic variations.  This seems to be working very well.  Also, I've established a much more secure and regular warm-up routine.  I spend about 30-45min. on scales and then about 15-30 on some kreutzer etudes.  With the scales, I also practice martele and do velocity exercises.  I'm currently mostly working on E-major because that's the key of my Bach.  It's extremely important to play this in tune because I've elected to play the easier Gigue movement over the Prelude. 

Studying with a different teacher didn't pan out but everything will be fine and I know it will be.  Thanks to everyone who sent me the emails, they were really nice to get.  I'll respond to you soon, I'm on break from school right now so I have time.  Well, here's to my first audition going well on Monday at 1pm... :)

yeah! rock that audition!

 

i'll keep my fingers crossed on monday...

Wishing you good luck today!