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)