Reading: Work Hard, Be Nice found, continued reading. Add “Improve your teaching: beginners” by Paul Harris, a short little guidebook to creative teaching techniques for new students.
Arranging: New Satellites charts! Today’s:
Practicing: I’m recording myself this week. It’s as painful as ever, but I can’t say that it’s not revealing and useful. Yesterday I spent an hour on one phrase of the Hungarian March excerpt, trying to fix my lagging eighth notes. It sounds fine when you play it, but when you listen back! Ugh! Lots of slow practice, creative articulation strategies, and determination needed.
By the way, do you know about TromboneExcerpts.org? What a phenomenal resource. use it. Love it. Support them on Patreon. Do it.
Rehearsing: Metro last night to play through music for our upcoming service at Grace Lutheran (see below).
Performing: Metro Brass at the morning service- Grace Lutheran in St Paul, 9:30a.
MC5 @ The Nicollet on Nov 25th, and more soon!
Listening: THIS
Teaching: So. Much. Singing. Sing all the things!
Relaxing: I did nothing on Saturday! Well, I did some things- I vacuumed, worked up a Satellites tune, went shopping for a Halloween costume- but mostly I read my recent stack of science fiction books from the library and drank tea. #winning
Lauren Husting, trombone 