Over the next concert cycle, I'd mainly like to improve my tone, phrasing, and intonation. My tone is very inconsistent, with some days being warm and rich, and other days being "airy" and entirely unpleasant to listen to. My higher notes also usually have that sound of air, and sometimes, when I'm having a bad day and/or I'm tired, my notes just--cut off. This ties into my problems with phrasing. To put it simply, I just can't hold them out long enough. I have to increase my breath intake as well as my stability when holding out long notes. I guess I just don't have much stamina, so I'll work on increasing that. My intonation is rather, well, horrible... It used to be that i could be in tune (or nearly :P) on my first attempts to tune, but now it's like I am permanently out of tune. I can never seem to find the right pitch to blend with other tones. Maybe I'm just blaming it on my braces, but I'll have to see about getting a tuner to practice long tones and tuning with.
Sorry for this long paragraph!
