Trying to tongue my way through G4 clarinet Ground Force...

How did you get on? I'm not a big fan of that for clari, sounds much better on trumpet

Played carols at band then the Sondheim, Irish Ayre and Beatles again, all on 2nd clari tonight though as there were only three of us. Still, it gives me more sight-reading practice

Clarinet has had a very quiet couple of days.
Might not do much other than 2 hours of carols tomorrow either.

Will aim to do a bit of catch up over the weekend.

I have a concert tomorrow.

Then *gasp* I won't play my clarinet again 'til Wednesday

You deserve a break.

I didn't play my flute properly for a few weeks after my dip...

It probably will, you know! Especially the way I'M going... which is basically running the notes together so I just have to play crochets...

Been in rehearsals all day today for concert tomorrow night!
All sounding fab and looking forward to it, especially the Harry Potter arrangement which is beautiful!

You're doing Harry Potter ? Lucky! All my orchestra's doing are carol songs for church service...

lesson on Thursday *gulp* need to get to work on pieces again tonight

Stanford

have decided I don't really like one of my other pieces, so back to the list to find another one......

Apart from the constant quest for good articulation (starting with study number 2 in the stripey book) Did some technical work on the Weber (2nd movement grand duo) and VKG prelude both of which I'm revisiting as unfinished business from last year.

Have been having a go at improvising & playing by ear on my clarinet and sax.

carols

Made a start on pulling apart the Philip Sparke Clarinet Concerto

how's it going?

Looks eminently do-able

Today ... a couple of James Rae Modern studies on clarinet and sax is in bits on the work bench ... flute practise is non exsistent!

why is your sax in bits Pixie*Porsche?

It's making a weird buzzing sound, got to get it back together today and hopefully play again

Ah, hope it goes back together ok

ouch! Just had to take a break and do something else.
Must have been concentrating too much on notes and articulation and got my right hand in the wrong position.
Stopped to rest my wrist before doing a bit more.

today..... Saint Saens Sonata, mostly the fourth movement which is taking some time. I hope you will all come and hear me play it when I am ready in , say, 2100. (If I work really hard.)
And one third of all the clari scales I know.
And some lo-o-o-o-ong tones.

Tonight I will be playing trios ith my friends and that makes me happy.


Oh dear, please be careful sbhoa. Have a cuppa and see if it gets better.

Confession .... not a lot of practice getting done here at the moment ...... so how can I expect the kids to do any really? ....

You can't but maybe you can get them playing a little for fun.

They have been ... Nice (if slightly out of tune) renditition of jingle bells yesterday. Transposed from piano part for clarinetgirl. First time they've played together so very sweet

Take care sbhoa




I have that, but yet to look at any part of it.... If we're talking timescales then I'll have to add another 50 years or so to your date Clarimoo


Have been having lots of fun attempting Stanford Intermezzi 3 with my teacher tonight

Only movement 4 is mega-tricky : you can probably make a good go of all three of the other movements, Louise



Glasgow 2012, like I did in Glasgow 2011?

Maybe, if I can get there (and am feeling brave )

Need to start practising again...especially tackling the new scary piece.

After spending best part of this afternoon in The Wind Section, Edinburgh, I am proud owner of Vandoren B40!!

Mainly been playing Movement 2 and 3 of Brahms Sonata 1....

Snap

made a conscious attempt at really playing the dynamics and adding more expression.

Lots of loooooooooong high notes too

looking forward to getting back into a proper practice 'routine' today, once work is finished there'll be no distractions (hopefully)

Just about to do my first playing of the day...

*wonders how Nicki got on*

I've done 2 x 16 minutes of practice (see the efficient practising thread).

My lips are knackered! The first session was to do with harmonics, and the second was trying to make a slow Telemann movement amazingly beautiful and quiet but in tune. Listening back to the recording I did, I think the musicality is coming but was playing much louder than I thought. Plus,need to work on making my long notes exciting and some of the tuning. Not much then .

well, things didn't go quite to plan. Got back from work and felt really tired and wouldn't have done anything productive with the clari so got the flute out for ten minutes and really enjoyed it

I have just bashed through one of my pieces with the accompaniment (not live). I'm realising what a lovely piece it is, although a bit frustrated by my hash of it! At least I have lots to work on!

Dug out the Danzi Concertante for flute, clarinet & piano which I am SUPPOSED to be playing with two teaching colleagues on Friday. Couldn't play more than a few bars of the darned thing - not altogether surprising as I hardly play at all these days. To be fair it isn't really my thing - I'm a Baroque-Bag through and through with a healthy dollop of French Romantic nonsense chucked in so this is probably the kind of thing that doesn't even singe the wick let alone light the candle. Poor excuse. I'm just ***p.

Feel pretty depressed about it.

So I'm going to bed with red wine.

Flutle-Bag x

Chin up, Bag.

I am sure you are pretty darn good...

I've done no playing for 4 days!

At least I've got another week before I'm back at work, and 11 days after that before my lesson, so time to rectify things before anyone notices.

Well, that makes me feel a whole lot better.....

Maybe I've been a little side-tracked of late too.

Night-night all,

Bx

I'm sure, too. When you get to a very high level, as you have, you will always feel you'll do more justice to certain types of work : I know I do. On clarinet, it tends to be transcriptions of Baroque works that I'll avoid, but even on flute/recorder, I'm way out of my comfort zone with Baroque music : I much prefer modern stuff, jazzy works, or a nice bit of Brahms/Schumann/similar. This doesn't mean you'll do badly with the Danzi : far from it, you'll probably do it amazingly.

*must do some practice before going out for lunch*

played for about half an hour but it wasn't going terribly well, Brahms was as if I hadn't seen it before so put the clari away rather than push on just for the sake of it.

I hate it when that happens. I am sure it will be better tomorrow.

Been out for the day and had a guilt free day off practising anything.

Agree with Nicki. We all get days like that...

B****y Danzi again. Doom. Acutally perhaps marginally better than before.

Oh ### it. Maybe I'll just go and open a cattery.

Bx

Keep at it, Bag When are you playing it?

I think Bag said above that it's tomorrow, Nicki.

She'll be fab, of course, whenever it is