Alter Ego have a gig tomorrow night so my drum practice this week has involved running through some of the tunes from that pad and trying to get a little more comfortable with some of the soloing/time playing that I need for the gig. There's a rehearsal tonight so I'm looking forward to seeing and playing with the guys again - its been a while since we were all in the same room together!
Piano practice has been a little more structured today as I have the day off. I've decided to limit my practice to little mini-sessions of 15 minutes at a time. There is no underlying musical or motivational reason for this. It is more a question of taking care of my back which has been causing me pain for the last week. Spending a few hours last Monday hunched over my keyboard and laptop seem to have set this off.
So far I've done four blocks:
15 minutes - Bob Mintzer Etude 1, first 12 bars at crotchet = 50. Not quite comfortable yet
15 minutes - Grade 2 Scales. Review G major 8 times then D major for the rest of the block. Both at crotchet = 50. I'm ALMOST comfortable with the fingerings over two octaves with both hands together.
15 minutes - Reinecke piece. Bars 5-8 then reviewing bars 1-8 at crotchet =40. Not quite there yet
15 minutes - Playing the Biehl piece at five tempos from crotchet = 72 up to 88 and then without click trying to include the ralls and dynamics a bit more. The rest of this block was spent reviewing the Mintzer Etude.
The adventure continues
16 years ago
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