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Ben Clapton

October 31, 2004 at 1:29 PM

Saturday - did 3 hours of violin practice in the morning, then spent the afternoon with my girlfriend. In the practice sessions I worked on my exam pieces and audition excerpts.

Sunday - After church, I had the Chorale concert (see previous entry). Concert went fairly well - it was awesome to play in a cathedral like that, the reverb is amazing. It's like a 2-3 second delay, and it's not a full size cathedral, they ran out of money so it's not the full size they wanted it to be. Makes me want to do a work like that in a big european cathedral.
Tonight I did half an hour on my excerpts. I was pretty tired after the concert, and I kinda feel that you should always have one day off a week (though depending on the situation of course). I've got fairly full days until wednesday, with lots of practice, and hopefully me getting my full driving liscence. Thursday and Friday will probably be fairly full as well, but I haven't planned them as yet, waiting to see how events on wednesday happen.

Current Goals: Get into Senior WAYO, pass all exams and assessments.

Goals for the Holidays: Learn and be confident in all 24 scales in various octaves; and learn to play without a shoulder rest.

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