I have been playing so much trumpet lately that I have not been focusing on this blog. And I haven't even been practicing that much. In fact, I barely feel like I practice at all. I hear of these music majors practicing 4, 6, 8 hours a day, and I just do not get it. When do they go to class? Go to rehearsal? Eat? Sleep? Practice for hearings? But the biggest questions I have, especially when it comes to trumpeting, is how can they physically do it? I know, I'm fresh on the scene after having a lack-luster 9 months in the trumpet realm, but I still cannot understand this super-human endurance they must have. Of course, I want to take things slow, build up to being able to practice a good, solid 2 hours a day and feel fine and strong afterward, but I have been thrown back into it, with demanding rehearsals 3 days a week and the attention span of a goldfish. I know I can't beat myself up over not being, to put it bluntly, any good right now, but I just want some easy, 12-step path to being a kick-ass trumpeter. That's what I need to be in order to play all the first parts, all the C and Eb trumpet, all the soprano sax parts (not even written for me!). And I'm not even a performance major!! I don't have time to read or study musicology. I think I should change that. I just need to be incredibly time efficient and focused whenever I'm working. Work hard, play hard, right? An it could be a lot more boring or unrewarding than music.
I suppose I should use this blog as an outlet for writing intelligently, not emotionally, about music.
Maybe next time.
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