Week 38 - A week of focus on (the laws of) music practice
1. Stuff done this week This week was rather busy with work, performances, chores and parenting. I feel a bit exhausted and desperate. I'm giving myself a hard time. I requested my HR department to calculate how much it would take me back if I reduced the amount of hours I am working. I feel I finally found in music something that has my passion. I am kind of worried though that this is perhaps not a wise thing to persue. I did not go to band practice thursday; used my time to squeeze in a work-out. Need that to ease up a little. Read and re-read some more music theory from Nickol's Learning to Read Music . Need to memorize the key signatures; that will be helpfulin my music practice. Further explored scales up the neck on mandolin; it is a tedious exercise, but I am beginning to get rather proficient at finger shifting. I play the octaves on the E, A, D and G string without the shift being noticeable. Further getting three octaves smoothly across the strings fo...