Monday, December 17, 2012

Final Practice Blog for semester 1 of 2012




I think that I greatly improved at the beginning, but then not so much after for these particular two excerpts. Overall, however, I think that my tone and intonation have improved. I've been trying to improve my tone (and my intonation, which sort of went bad along with my tone) ever since about half a year ago when my quality suddenly dropped and I started getting a ton of airiness--and not much sound. I personally feel that my critical listening has improved, and I am noticing a few more things I wouldn't normally have by listening to my recordings.

On a side note, I finally figured out how to use iMovie (sort of) :D

Monday, December 3, 2012

Practice Blog Number 3



My main goal to take me to an artist level performance is to hone my dynamics. It's something that pretty much every person that plays an instrument hears, to focus on dynamics more. I think that that is always true (no matter how annoying it gets when you hear it thousands of times). After all, it's basically what make the music come alive. I also still have some problems with phrasing.