Slogan: Challenge Myself, Enjoy the Moment

Hye folks,
Well, again I have not done a summary for the end of the month. This one sort of snuck up on me and I only realized it this morning when they were talking about it being July 1st, a holiday here in Canada. They used to call it Dominion Day, but there have been changes and I don't know what it is right now . . . sigh.

Last month I practiced the work that Alyson had given us at the May lesson. Then I lost track of time and ended up not going. I was getting the two hands fairly well - for me that is. I was still practicing the Christ Child's Lullabye for the two hand experience. Worked on most of the small pieces and pulled out Greensleeves, that I used to play so lovely. At the moment it feels like I have too much music going on and I'm trying to go in too many directions. In some way I don't even know what that means; its all the small pieces that I have been working on, no different styles, maybe I just don't have a good way to practice them. One I work on daily and too much, another I keep putting off till I plan to sit down and have lots of time, others I run thru a few times checking on the fingering, but not really giving it the time and attention it needs. Seems like sloppy work.

I won't make a list of music today, I am going to go sit with the music books and look over the lists I've made over the past year, check also on the goal that I set and where I am with it. We're getting close to the end of the year and I don't want to forget that I had a goal in mind originally. I'm hoping that I am accomplishing something, but with no regular check going on its hard to tell what I am doing. If I choose to continue with it for another year, I am going to have to change a few things, one of them being to check the beginning, the previous month, keep a better set of small goals that will create a completed project. Maybe I'll have to set a special thing in place, like a recital for Noreen or someone like that.

One thing I want to do is get a friend who plays also, to show me how I can get more out of the levers I have. Not knowing that much about the theory of music, I don't have a handle on that part of things.

Okay, I'll be back later or tomorrow with the new list of music for the month and any info I discover in my travels thru the previous months.

Cheers, Meg