For this practice session, I decided to combine what I was doing for the last two sessions and run through the whole Mad Anthony. Since the concert is slowly approaching, I thought it would be helpful to use the comments I made on my last two blogs to help make this one better. After listening to myself run through the piece, I think that I am pretty good at taking the key signature into account, which is huge in a piece with four flats. I also played all the notes on beat and with relatively good intonation. I have achieved marcato style in most parts of the piece, though some of the faster passages end up being connected or short. I also feel I have good intonation throughout the piece. Some things that I still need to work on is not skipping notes or playing wrong notes in some faster passages. I have figured out that the trouble spots are in the intro (m.1 - m.5), and from J to the end. These places are areas where I play pretty fast, and one of my problems in when I play faster, tone and style kind of get thrown out the window. I have figured our a good way to solve this problem, however. When I come across a trouble spot while playing, I stop and play the passage four or five times, starting very slowly and slowly working up the tempo while making sure I still have good tone and all the notes are correct. This method has really started to pay off because I am seeing improvements in these areas.
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