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Practiced for thirty minutes today, first five minutes were for a chromatic warm up. Tnext ten minutes were on "Second Suite in f". The first five of those minutes were on March and the second five minutes for Fantasia on the Dargason. It went just as well as it did yesterday except it was slightly better (I also did the same thing as yesterday as well). After that. I spent five minutes on A Song Without Words It went well enough, there was a small little phrase that I think went a little weird though.
The next five minutes were on "Pirates of the Carribean" went well enough, a little weirdness on a few measures on the first page. and finally, the last five minutes were on q blue book cool-down.

Today's practice was half an hour long. The first five minutes were spent on a scales- warm up. The next ten minutes were spent on "Second Suite in F", the first five minutes on March & the other fine minutes on Fantasia on the Dargason. I basically had thwe same problems and did basically the same things as I did yesterday, except that I made slightly less mistakes. The minutes after that were spent on "A Day @ the Circus", firstfive minutes were spent on The Grand Entrance (which went well except for a mistake a few mistakes). The other five minutes were spent on Acrobats and Arialists (also, only a random mistake here or there, **work on it again tommorow).
The last five minutes were spent on a couple songs in the blue book.

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Worked for thirty minutes today. First five minutes were a chromatic scales warm up.
The next five minutes were spent on March from "Second Suite in F". it is going fairly well, I think there are a few accidental slurs, but nothing major. The next fifteen minutes were spent on Fantasia on the Dargason because I thought the opener could use some work. I just worked on that part over and over as fast as I can (to learn how to play it faster) while trying to make as few mistakes as possible. didn't go to bad.
Finally, I played a few peices in the blue book for five minutes to cool off.

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Today, I worked for half an hour. the fisrt five minutes were spent on scales as a warm-up. The next fifteen minutes were spent polishing up "Second Suite in F". When I worked on March, I found that I was doing quite a good job. But, I made a few mistakes over and over again when I worked on Fantasia on the Dargason, I think that I had accidentally blurred a few of the notes together. I will have to work on that another time.
The last ten minutes were spent on "A Day at the Circus" or to be more precise The grand Entry (the class had just sight read it today). Considering the fact that I just sight read it. I think I did not screw up too bad. But, there was some awkwardness in the peice that I will have to look at later.

I Ain't Gonna Tell Ya'

Today's practice took thirty minutes. The first minutes were spent warming up on chromatic scales. I am doing well with it, except I do seem to make a mistake in that department every now and then. I guess I'll have to work on it a little later. After that, I spent ten minutes on scales in the order tha they are found in the magenta book. Except for the occasional mistake, I am doing well with it, (I like to go through a part repeatedly until I am sure tha tI have not screwed up). More practice is instore for the scales.
The next ten minutes were spent working on section four in "Second Suite in F". First, I went through the first few parts of it with fairly good results. Then, I repeatedly the opening part. I think that I am doinng well at it (finally) but I'll want to work with the rest of he section.
The last five minutes were spent on "Russian Sailor's Dance" in the blue book.

Musical Mumbo Jumbo

Today, I worked for thirty minutes. I spent the first five minutes working on the chromatic scales. I am pleased to say that I am doing very with them, I just have to work on the speed at which I play the scales. After that, I worked on scales about four different scales and the scales in thirds. I did this for five minutes. Doing well except for the occasional mistake, I plan to work on these scales more in the future.
After that, I worked on part A in "Second Suite in F" . I am also pleased to say that I am doing well in tha peice, but I plan to work on it more in the future, just to be completely sure that I will not screw it up.
The last five minutes were spent on "Pirates of the Carribbean" just to unwind. But I am doing very well wwoth the music.

Hoobidy Joobidy

Toady's practice took thirty minutes, I warmed up on chromatic scales for five minutes, doing well in that department, but I am noticing that I am having a problem or two with phrasing, but I am working on that, so nothing to worry about. I aslo spent fifteen minutes working on the polyhar Scales Skills exercise for no apparent reason, I shoulld remember to keep a close eye on the slur markers, and to also keep an eye on the accidentals. The last ten minutes were spent on "Pirates" but working on this song is just to have a little fun.

How should I know?!?!?!???!

Worked for half an hour today, I spent ten minutes working on chrommatic and various other scales. I worked for scales with thirds mostly. But I did also work with chromatics by doing random scales. These scales are going well. For the next fifteen minutes, I worked on "Second Suite in F", runing through part A, working on part B as well as select parts of part C. Part A and B are going well but I am having a few little trip-ups on a few peices of part C (mainly the opening). Basically the plan of action is to work on that part a little more.
Finally, for the last five minutes, I had some fun playing "Pirates of the carribean".

I don't know what the title is.

Today, I worked for half an hour. For the first ten minutes, I worked on my chromatic and other various scales. With the chromatic scales, I just 'performed' four random chromatic scales (which actually are just the same scale that start off from different points). I am doing well with them, I jusst want to spend a little more time on them later. With the other scales, I just picked out scales randomly and did them along with the apreggios and the scals in thirds. Gettin' good @ those scales as well.
After that I spent fifteen minutes working "Second Suite in F" while I did the whole of March, except for the fact that I did not wait for the rests (come on, just sitting in silence is totaly boring). I am gettin' good @ sections H and on. I also spent a little time on Dargason and I am pleased to say that I am getting good at this section as well.
I spent the last five minutes justplaying around on Pirates of the Carribean.

Alot about not much

Today, I practiced for thirty minutes, dividing the time equally between "Second Suite in F" and "Pirates of the Carribean". For "Second Suite", I worked on the 6/8 part of March and Fantasia on the Dargason. It seems to be going well, the e flat in March is proving to be annoying, but I'll manage to work it out. Fantasia on the Dargason also seems to be going well, but there still seems to be some awkwardness in the opening and the rest of the parts that sound exactly like it. For the rest of the time, I played "Pirates" but I was minly just playing it to relax and I was already fairly good at it.

Thirty minutes of practice today, I spent half of it (fifteen minutes) on the scale skills exercise. Pleased to say that I am not having any problems with it. I spent about one third of my time (ten minutes) working on "Pirate of the Carribean" without having any real prolems on it. I kind of enjoy playing "The Black Pearl", the slurred portion s going great. As are a good number other portions. And finally, I spent the rest of the time working on "Rumble on the High Plains", working on the last page of the peice. I am very confident in my abilities to play that piece now.

Today, I worked for another thirty minutes. I spent the whole time on that scale skills thing. I did not have too many problems with it at some points I do have to work on some articulations. I also want to work on my pitch a little bit and I have to remember not to put down the pinky-key to use certain notes. But these are small wrinkles that I can iron out tomorrow. I also should remember to work on some other peices.

Some Kind of post

Today, I worked for a half hour. I spent five minutes on chromatic scales and scales in thirds. Going fairly well, I wanna try to do the scales as fast as possible next time I practice. Then I ran through "Rhosymedre" (without difficulties) and I went through parts of "Rumble" and "Light Eternal" for about fifteen minutes. I also did not have too many problems with those peices (and that was including measure eighty-seven in "Light Eternal". After that, I played "Pirates of the Carribean", and I was doing very well (very few fingering mix-ups). For the last few minutes, I played songs in the blue book. But that was just to pass time so they were songs that I commonly played.