Home alone

there are days when i take advantage of the siesta. today, i slept for 3 hours... whoa.

woke up to an empty house so i immediately made my way to the back for some practice time. 15 minutes of scales. went through the first pages of the book to where i have been recently. made note that i need to work on #77, and the last two songs on page 19.

then i played through the sheet music that i have, and finished with trying to figure out The Bear Necessities. haha, i don't know why the fascination with the disney songs.. perhaps because they're just so happy sounding.

one, glorious, hour.

Recording

after being inspired by Jon McLaughlin.. it's true that i might be obsessed.. i found myself recording a lot of what i was practicing yesterday. i still have to edit it and all, but it all just sounded so pretty. perhaps the nice weather helped. i dunno..

the main thing is, a fun time and hopefully i can post some stuff in the following posts.

1.05 hours of practice to help round out my hours in total.

Little mermaid

"look at this stuff.. isn't it neat?"

i finally figured out the whole song. it's a fun one! regular routine of scales, then book and finally messing around. good sound, although at times i feel like a lot of spit gets caught in there. i was extra thorough in cleaning the saxophone this time. it was sort of a tierno moment taking care of it!

1 hour.
= 159.95

Adivinando

or maybe the better spanish verb is averiguando.

que se yo? haha

just playing around for awhile, and tone was really good. in the beginning. i think i lose breathing control after awhile, and the sound comes out a little rough. either way, the exciting news is i almost have The Entertainer down perfect, aaaand Pink Panther is coming along quite nicely. loving the challenge of the high note :)

i do need to find some more songs to play though..

1.5 hours of practice time.

As time goes by

it just sounds so good on the saxophone!! i am working on this one as well as several others. i like using the book because it gives me some direction. i don't like using the book because it doesn't always include songs i like.

good tone. fun time. a most beautiful night in terms of weather.

1 hour mas.

Short n sweet

just messing around some more. i started with As Time Goes By, and i am thinking of recording it for the grandparents. but when i began to play i realized how tired i was so i played some scales, a couple songs from book two and now i am calling it a night!

30 minutes is still something!!!

Keep forgetting

to mark down my hours. i played for an hour on tuesday and another hour today. i wish i could say i practiced more, but a lot of things came up this week. Lord willing, i will have some time tomorrow, but if not, at the very least tuesday - wednesday - thursday here i come!!!

as for this week's practice, i played a lot of What a Wonderful World, and then a plethora of other songs. today i remember better (obviously), in which i went back to book one and reviewed the basics. easier scales, easier songs. i was encouraged by tone and the fact that i could read the music rather quickly. i have come to the point where i have many songs memorized.

then messed around with some Moon River, Sleeping Beauty, Solo Cristo, Somewhere Over the Rainbow, old hymns, Autumn Leaves, Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, etc. etc.

2 hours.