ANOTHER REHEARSAL

SLOGAN: Discipline Your Relationship

This evening I started my practice session later than I had scheduled but as I sat in my harp seat and opened the music book to the place I am choosing to start my fingers went to the strings quite naturally. I have an exercise piece that I run thru to warm up. I play it three times in order to be sure the harp is in tune and to see my fingers are in sync with each other. I don't think its enough, when I get to the hard pieces, with a long stretch I notice that I stumble and hesitate. If you begin with hesitation that is how you will learn to play the piece and its difficult to erase the memory. With this new chance to start over I would like to take care not to do that.

I played the same pieces as last night, with the exception of Happy Birthday; that and the Wedding March are two very important easy pieces that are requested often and you need to do them well in order to enhance the occasion which usually belongs to a friend or relative and you want to make it a delightful memory. Therefore, practice is essential.

There isn't much to report at this point so I'm going to go file down my nails, they were catching on the strings, maybe when I return to a higher level I can chance working with longer nails but for now they need to be filed and have a coat of polish for strengthening.

Thanks for dropping in,

Meg