Today is the Eve Eve of my audition. It is day 181 of focused work preparing for this day...
I am excited, tired, and looking forward to its conclusion. We fly tomorrow. It is 7:48pm. I am packed, did many of the household things to prepare for leaving, including bringing some wood down the hill and splitting the small pile of logs left, and bringing in wood to the house, filling our neighbors woodbox.
Now it is time to practice. Yesterday morning was such a good focused session, and now I have to create the space for my unfocused mind and clunky feeling body. My shoulders are tight and a bit sore.
Day 180: about 3 hours but breaks in there...
Day 179: 1.33
Day 178: 1.15
I need to warm up playing... I need to do a little thumb position intonation work... I need to review memory... I need to play through Allemande... Odd how it can feel like I must have forgotten everything when my body feels like this, but I still know what I did yesterday...
In the morning I need to do some lite weights and stretches... drones and yampolsky... we'll see...
Gene gave me a shoulder run to start to loosen up, then I did a 5 min full body stretching video, then a 5 min meditation recording where I stretched some more and tried to listen to my body... listening to music for focus while writing and lit a candle... Sometimes it takes some work to get there.
okay, 7:55 pm. Here I go.
Oh, PS, I will have to wear a mask I think, so going to practice in one tonight.
I am excited, tired, and looking forward to its conclusion. We fly tomorrow. It is 7:48pm. I am packed, did many of the household things to prepare for leaving, including bringing some wood down the hill and splitting the small pile of logs left, and bringing in wood to the house, filling our neighbors woodbox.
Now it is time to practice. Yesterday morning was such a good focused session, and now I have to create the space for my unfocused mind and clunky feeling body. My shoulders are tight and a bit sore.
Day 180: about 3 hours but breaks in there...
Day 179: 1.33
Day 178: 1.15
I need to warm up playing... I need to do a little thumb position intonation work... I need to review memory... I need to play through Allemande... Odd how it can feel like I must have forgotten everything when my body feels like this, but I still know what I did yesterday...
In the morning I need to do some lite weights and stretches... drones and yampolsky... we'll see...
Gene gave me a shoulder run to start to loosen up, then I did a 5 min full body stretching video, then a 5 min meditation recording where I stretched some more and tried to listen to my body... listening to music for focus while writing and lit a candle... Sometimes it takes some work to get there.
okay, 7:55 pm. Here I go.
Oh, PS, I will have to wear a mask I think, so going to practice in one tonight.
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