It's almost April, and that means it's almost time for school to be over and summer to finally start up. This summer I may be taking lessons with my teacher now. I agree with her on the fact that I shouldn't go through an entire summer without some sort of lessons. I am in a major comeback mode, and to stop lessons so quickly would be slightly harmful to my recovery. I like to take it upon myself to say that I'm not the average music major. Averagelly, a music student would play in high school and go on to audition at several colleges, get accepted and be thrown face first into the scary world we know as the music major. The average music major is placed into intense courses of music theory, ear training, different ensembles, and private lessons.

Why am I differet? First, I'm a transfer student. I was a music major for half a semester at a previous college, and transfered in as undeclared with the an intended path towards history/politcal science. Second, I have had major trauma to my most unsed body part in trumpet playing. Combined with a year of not playing at all and to be thrown in face first (yet again) it's a whole new ball game.

I was cleaning my room, and I was thinking about what I should play next semester. What should I work on? What other major trumpet pieces are out there? I realized that I did save one piece of paper from my time at CW Post, which was the required and recommended list that was given to all trumpet students upon acceptance. I found it, and I'm thinking the Hummel Trumpet Concerto.

On top of the list was the Louis Davidson Trumpet Technique book, which I have been incorporating into my warm up routine. I finally have one.
1)Buzz mouthpiece
2) hit a few low notes
3) go through a few series in the Louis Davidson trumpet Technique Book

and then it's tackle that week's work (right now it's cleaning up the 1st movement of the Hindemith Sonata, and venturing into the 2nd movement.)

I may be playing at the upcoming recital. I may be doing the 1st movement of the Hindemith because my teacher wants me to play along with a piano since it is a sonata.

I have been trying to get a feel for it through SmartMusic, but it annoys the crap out of me. It feels like the beat the computer sets to the piece and the actual accompainment are completely different, I tune with the computer and the tuner at home, and it two different answers.

gah, I hate SmartMusic. I do benefit from their jazz scale exercises, but that's for my jazz class. I feel sorta unsatisfied that I paid 25 bucks for this subscription...but then again it was only 25 bucks compared to the average 100 bucks. Maybe I am getting what I paid for.