Awesome sauce

So my lesson went quite well today, despite the fact that my mouth seemed really dry, and my tonging wasn't on the ball. But hey can't complain about a good lesson, it's the reason I enjoy them, I always get something out of them. Like when Josh once again had to teach me how to read a Time signature, and yes I can't read the complicated ones, but I'm getting better at it. Just repetition is all I need. Then later we had a good convo about different things about college, although I kinda dug into Toad's lesson time, sorry bout that. Anyways good weather so far, hopefully we don't get that freakin' snow.

Spring ahead, to lose some sleep...

So I just remembered this weekend is the annual, lose an hour of sleep on Sunday. For all those who haven't paid attention in the past and thought this was a myth, well now is time to set aside those delusional fantasies of getting that extra hour of sleep and be ready to lose one! Let's see I need some music oriented stuff in this one... how about... Ringo Starr!

Radio

The radio has no long the needs to be called, the Radio. It doesn't play music, except for like a sound byte of different songs, it just does the stupid commercials! What happened to listening to the radio for music? It seems like someone needs to remind those at the radio stations why the radio exists. Yeah we have the XM radio and all that but that is just another way of getting people to "buy" the radio. It's like the MTV without the actual music. I don't know it just seems that we need to get rid of the radio if all they do is play 2 or 3 songs in a row and then 30 commercials. It isn't radio.

Ah...

Only a couple more days of our break is left, and of course this one is ending bitter sweet. We are getting snow, and more of it, for some ungodly reason. Hopefully this doesn't put a damper on the ending to some spring breaks, but remember it's time to really hit the mouthpieces come monday! Hope everyone gets home safe!

Just be over!!

I think everybody can agree with me when I say: IT'S TIME FOR A BREAK!!! Now obviously I don't mean from practicing, cuz really who needs that? But anyways this week needs to be done! I am not in the mind set of playing well when I know that my break is so close! And I probably made Josh mad in my lesson because I wasn't focusing as well as I should have, plus I've not gotten much sleep, that probably constituted my bad playing too. But yeah it's time for a break, we all need one! Keep practicing, keep real.

Ah!

So during my lesson with Josh this past Thursday I'm starting to truly understand how to control my air. It's been sucking lately and I think it's because I'm not thinking about it enough. Eventually I know that I will get control of the way I let out air, "like a garden hose" is how Josh states it. Just gotta get my behind in the practice room a little more and just work on breathing. OH and I need a metronome, if anybody finds one cheap that would be fantastic.

Just throwing it out there...

When is it good to practice? I think any time is good, but really does it help if you are tired and don't really focus on the music? I ran through some stuff today and I need to do a little penny gaming on a few spots on stuff that I've now been on for almost 2 weeks now. I believe that trying to practice and getting through practice are two different ways of practice: trying means you want to practice, and getting means you want to just run over things and put the instrument down. I felt like today I did a little of both, it seemed like I could have done more but I did work over some troubled areas so I didn't feel like complete crap.