today...

Ze 28th of October

Warm-Up (long tone scales and arpeggios; lip slurs/flexies; 2 & 3 octave staccato scales)

Mozart 4 (mvt 2)

Elegie

Brahms 3

Beethoven 9

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Re-warm up for band audition and horn class

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Mozart 4 mvt 1 (listening to Peter Damm-amazing recording!)

Tchaik 5 (listening to Chicago recording and fixing little details)

Low horn exercises

This practice session was well over an hour, but time flew by...and I only worked on 3 things...but I got a lot of little things better so it was worth it...

update...

Thursday Oct. 23:

I was exhausted from getting up at 5:40am and traveling to Nebraska, but I did practice about an hour and a half in the afternoon before I just couldn't concentrate anymore...

Warm-Up (long)

Scales/Articulation

Romance

Kopprasch

Mozart 4 (mvt 1)-memorization work

Brahms 3

Shosti 5

Friday Oct. 24:

Warm-Up

Scales

Elegie

Mozart 4 (mvts 2 & 3)

BREAK

Kopprasch

Ein Heldenleben

Tchaik 4

Beethoven 3

Shosti 5

Saturday Oct 25

Spiderweb Warm-Up

Scales

Mozart 4 (all-memorizing work)

Beethoven 9

Till

Pavane

Don Quixote

Sunday Oct 26

Warm-Up

Dress Reh

Concert 

Monday Oct 27

Spiderweb Warm-Up

Elegie

Mozart 4 (mvt 2)

Brahms 3

BREAK

Lip Slurs

Scales

Mozart 4 (mvt 3)

Wind Ensemble audition music

Beethoven 9

Shosti 5

BREAK

Orchestra

MONDAY

Warm-Up- long tones on scales; slurs; articulation work

Wendell Rider scale patterns (all majors and harmonic minors)

Low Horn exercises (from Rider book)

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Romance

Brahms 3

Ein Heldenleben

Beethoven 3

Shosti 5

TUESDAY

Spiderweb Warm-Up

Kopprasch 34 (can play all at 82 bpm)

Mozart 4 (isolated parts of mvt 1 w/met and worked on all of mvt 3)

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Short Scherezade Sectional

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Scale exercise 

Slurs

Articulation work (major scales around cycle)

Mozart 4 (mvt 2)

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WW Quintet rehearsal

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Run through excerpt list:

Beethoven 3 & 9

Brahms 3

Ravel Pavane

Shosti 5

Tchaik 4 & 5

Till

Heldenleben

Siegfried Short Call

Don Quixote

fall break recap...

Thurs.

Warm-Up

Scales

Mozart 4

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Lip Slurs

Articulation

Kopprasch 34 (sectionalized w/met)

Beethoven 3

Tchaikovsky 4

Shosti 5

FRI.

Warm-Up

Scales

Elegie

Kopprasch 34

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Slurs

Articulation

Mozart 4 mvt 2 (memorization work)

Ein Heldenleben

Beethoven 9

Shosti 5

SAT.

Warm-Up

Mozart 4

Kopprasch 34 (working on getting all sections 84bpm)

ran excerpt list

listened to a lot of music (I was driving 3+ hours)

SUN.

Warm-Up

Scales

Slurs

Articulation

(gave my horn a much needed bath!)

Brass Sectional

Mozart 4 Expo.

ran excerpt list

wed and thurs practicing

On Wed. I warmed up with the Spiderweb warm-up, did about five minutes of additional articulation, and some f horn lip slurs...

I then played through the first movement of Mozart 4, recording it on my Edirol...

I also played through Brahms 3, Tchaikovsky 5, and Pavane, also recording with my Edirol...

I had my lesson that afternoon...

Then, I practiced for about 30 minutes before orchestra re-warming up with some lip slurs and scales...I also worked on Elegie and Ein Heldenleben opening

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Thursday

Warm-Up

Scales (new way with diff. articulations)

Lip Slurs

Mozart 4

Tchaikovsky 4 opening (horn 1)

Clarke's (3 octaves)

I listened to and played through the audition music for wind ensemble

Ein Heldenleben opening

Pavane

Warm-down

This was a shorter/lighter day because I had been doing a lot of playing the past 4-5 days and I could definitely feel it...

updated practicing

So I guess I am really bad about updating this...my bad...I have been practicing: 

SOLOS

Mozart 4

Poulenc Elegie

Saint-Saens Romance (Op. 67)

ETUDES

Kopprasch

Gallay

Neuling

EXCERPTS

Beethoven 3 Trio Horn 2

Beethoven 9 Mvt 4 Horn 4 solo

Beethoven 6 Mvt 3 Horn 1 solo

Brahms 3 Mvt 3 Horn 1 solo

Tchaikovsky 5 Mvt 2 Horn 1 solo

Tchaikovsky 4 Mvt 1 opening Horn 1

Shostakovich 5 low horn tutti

Ravel Pavane 

Till Eulenspiegel Horn 1 solo & Horn 3 calls

Don Quixote Var. 7 Horn 2

Ein Heldenleben opening Horn 1 & Horn 2 parts

OTHER

double tonguing

D & C transposition

staccato articulation (putting more front on notes)

Night on Bald Mountain

scales...

So I've been pretty good about practicing 2-3 hours just about every day...this is the first ever I have practiced this much so I'm doing pretty well...(at least for me)

Sept. 14th and 15th

On Sunday I practiced:

Warm-Up

Octatonic Scales

Kopprasch

Romance

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Gallay Etude

Neuling Etude

Elegie

Orchestra music

Monday:

Warm-Up

Gallay Etude

Kopprasch Etude

Elegie

Neuling

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Scales/Arpeggios

Romance

Excerpts

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Orchestra Reh.

my saturday

I'm in Bloomington visiting Dylan and it works out really well when I am here because there is a new amenity center for his apartment complex that has 2 practice rooms. They are decent sized and actually are pretty good to play in. This is especially handy if I'm ever going to be here during the week because finding a practice room at the music school during the day could be impossible. So today I practiced

Warm-Up

Flexies

Kopprasch

Elegie

Barber Overture

Bald Mountain

Tchaik 5, Pavane, Brahms 3 and Beethoven 3

This was a light day for me because I was able to spend time to both Dylan and a few of my friends...oh well, I will do more tomorrow :) 

The good thing is that I practiced for a little over an hour and a half and I wasn't tired at all when I was finished...maybe I'm playing more efficiently...(at least I hope so!)

Rainy Friday

Today I went to Franklin Township Middle School West to work with horn students for 3 hours. I had to get up before 7am (which I haven't had to do since last semester) and didn't do my normal warm-up in the morning. It was a lot of fun to work with the students and the band director wants me to come back on a regular basis and is going to push them to take private lessons (yay)

So today I have done:

Warm-Up (25 minutes)-long tones, scales & arpeggios, slurs, and articulation

Sectional

Kopprasch (15 minutes)

Elegie (15 minutes)-mostly 2nd page

Excerpts (25 minutes)-Beethoven 3, mvmt 3, horn 2; Tchaik 5, Shosti 5, and Ravel Pavane

Later I am going to work on a Kling etude, a Neuling etude, and Elegie...

Practice Sessions

9/5

Warm-Up: Long Tones, Clarks, Scales, Articulation, Lip Slurs (35 minutes)

Mozart 4, mvmt 1 (20 minutes)

LESSON

Kopprasch (15 minutes)

Romance (15 minutes)

Excerpts (20 minutes)

9/6

Warm-Up

Kling

Elegie

Kopprasch

Mozart 4, mvmt 2

Neuling Etude

Romance

9/7

Warm-Up

Kopprasch

Kling

Excerpts

Mozart 4, mvmt 1

Romance

Neuling Etude

Elegie

9/8

Warm-Up

Elegie

Kopprasch

Kling

Neuling Etude

Excerpts

Romance

9/9

Warm-Up

Kling

Kopprasch

Neuling Etude

Elegie

Romance

Excerpts

9/10

Warm-Up

LESSON

Kopprasch

Elegie

9/11

Warm-Up

High Horn Stuff

Excerpts

Kopprasch

Neuling Etude

Romance

Elegie (ending)

recap for day 1

My warm-up (yesterday) included some long tones, clark studies, expanding scales, and articulation. I worked on some high horn playing yesterday for a while, namely etude 2 from Marty Hackleman's first book. I decided that since I had focused for over a year on low horn playing (once my teacher discovered after an audition I am a natural on playing low) that I need to get my high chops back in shape. Working on the audition music for a month this summer really helped to get that started. I actually got our some high C-sharps and two of them were real notes with a good sound and not too flat. 

My playing yesterday also included:

• 15 minutes brushing up some parts of the Bach Courante that I started learning last week.
•  I recorded 6 excerpts on my Edirol just to see how they sounded after not working on them for about 4-5  months. I did each one 2-3 times and some of them sounded a lot better then I thought they would. 
  
• And 25 minutes working on Mozart 4 movements 1 & 3

I think what is going to mostly happen is I will post what I did either really late at night on the same day or the following morning...I just need to get in a habit of doing it!

1st Day

Hi...So this is not my first attempt to keep a practice journal, but since it is now part of a grade I think I'll be more motivated to keep it up :-) I like being at Butler after the first week. Even though I started my undergrad at a small school there was still a little bit of "culture shock" from being used to an enormous music school the past 3 years.

I did my student teaching last spring and while the kids were awesome, it definitely cut into my personal practice time. I was fairly motivated this summer to keep up my practicing in between moving (twice), getting married, working, teaching, gigging, and going on my honeymoon since I had decided not to take a year off from school. 

I am hoping that since I have an ungodly amount of free time here, I will for the first time actually practice the number of hours I am supposed to each day for the first time. I tend to get bored easily working on the same things over and over and learn a lot of things pretty quickly so I don't have to practice them as much as other people. I told Dr. Lewis this so hopefully I won't get away with that anymore and she'll kick my butt. 

So I am going to go warm-up and practice for about an hour or so this morning, another hour in the afternoon and then some more before orchestra. This is my plan...I'm pretty sure I can handle this. I am going to work on the Courante from Bach's 1st cello suite, Mozart 4 (gotta learn it sometime), and record some excerpts. I'll probably also work on a Gallay etude from his Brilliant Etudes...