Desiring perfection

it's the first time i concentrated on a piece for an entire session. perhaps that explains why i could only put in 45 minutes of practice (with a few distractions in practicing other songs). i just kept telling myself how much i do desire to get a song down perfect. and of all the songs, it's the Entertainer. because it just sounds so sick on the sax - let's be honest here.

i shall keep my dream of playing in a big band group. and it will start with joplin.

45min as previously stated.

Excuses, excuses

i played the guitar this week. my fingers have the callouses on them again. ouch. and all in the name of playing for a wednesday meeting that i didn't really want to do. it went okay though. the problem is i can't sing and i foolishly introduced two new songs. that's all right though. it was fun to strum again. can't wait to get back to the sax though!

probably a total of 2 hours practicing + playing.

Octave key love

so.. i can finally make the switch. i breathed in deep, from the diaphragm and not the upper chest of course, and made headway on Scott Joplin's "The Entertainer." i can say that because it was the first time practicing it without changing the embouchure for higher pitch, but rather switching the thumb to another button also known as the octave key.

additionally, i practiced the same two pages from the week before. this time with much better air control and much better rhythm. still want to take my time with those so that i get them close to perfect.

40 precious minutes. i like tuesday nights :)