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...