Day: January 18, 2008

General Update

Byartsyhonker January 18, 2008 0 Comments
First of all, I have to say I'm quite pleased with the grade I received on my last Arrangement assignment: 80%! Yay!I've got another one due on Thursday. In a few minutes I'll be off to the keyboard lab to work on it and have it checked over for obvious glaring errors. Congratulations are due to my three piano students who took exams in December. All of them worked very hard, and all of them...

Oren Marshall breathing workshop

Byartsyhonker January 18, 2008 0 Comments
On Wednesday, Oren Marshall came to do a breathing workshop with the horns at Trinity.I got a lot of good out of this session, from reminders of breathing exercises long-forgotten to a few new ones I hadn't done before. There was very little playing but what playing we did was methodical and vastly improved by some of the breathing techniques and mouthpiece-alone playing that we did.The best...