Journal #1

I started to practice my piece yesterday. At first when I played the whole piece, I realized that my tonguing and the rhythm were horrible. So I decided to practice without doing staccatos and slurs just to be familiar with the melody of the piece. And then I put staccatos and slurs back. Even though I could keep the right rhythm, I still needed to work on my tonguing. And my next problem was bar 15 to 18. I couldn't play with the right tempo because it was really hard to play really high notes with slurs. So I practiced those bars really slowly without doing slurs, and after I played that part about 5 times, I could play it without making any squeaky sound. And my last problem was bar 27 to the end of the piece(I didn't do the D.S. al Fine at the time). It was really hard to put accent(sfz) on the low notes. So I decided to play that part without accent, and put it back after I can play well.

Today, I downloaded the piano accompaniment, and tried to play with the accompaniment. I was really surprised because I never played this piece like that fast. So I just decided to play the piece without accompaniment because I still needed to practice slowly. And I found out another problem today. I kept forgetting play D sharp when I played bar 31 to the end of the piece. So I circled every D sharp on the piece, so I could notice them. Except those problems, everything was okay(even though I didn't put dynamics yet).