Week of 10/6

While performing from a different perspective, I basically heard the same things that I always hear since I sit in the middle of the room and everyone with different instruments is basically spread out around me.
I know that I still need to work harder to not squeak on my instrument and work on the dynamics and a few sharps/flats more still.

Week of 9/29

Making a truly artistic musical performance means getting all/most of the music right and playing together in the tones/speed/ect that the music tells you to do. Also, playing with a lot of feeling. We as an ensemble before class need to work on playing together and working the piece as a whole so it sounds good and like a whole. We as individuals need to work on learning the music and perfecting each and every bit of the piece.

Week of 9/22

I am working on improving my playing at rehearsals by paying attention and giving my best effort and asking when I don't understand stuff
At home I work on improving by practicing and going over parts in my music that I can't play very well or still need practice on.

Moscow 1941 Playing hardest parts.

http://vocaroo.com/i/s1sW83sAN7Pl
Sorry I couldn't get Youtube or Soundcloud to work so I had to upload it to a weird random place

I played measures 79 - 94 and I messed up alot and still have alot to do. I haven't played much music with alot of lower sharps and flats in it, like I kept on messing up on F/F# and B/Bb and also on E.
My tones and breathing was also really bad, I couldn't really put it in a steady tempo and kept on messing up in this whole part.

Moscow, 1941

Compared to the pieces that I played in middle school, Moscow, 1941 by Brian Balmages seems a bit on the easy side.

This piece is played on the key of C Major (No sharps or flats) with a few accidentals (Occasional sharps/flats thats written in and is played for the whole measure of the measure it's written in)

Andante - Walking speed, like slow
Poco Accel. - Gradually become faster
Poco rit. - Gradually slow down
A Tempo - Go back to original tempo, in this piece it would be andante (quarter note = 70)
F - Forte/loud
P - Piano/soft/quiet
Mf - Mezzo forte/medium loudness
Mp - Mezzo piano/medium quietness
Crescendo - Slowly get louder
Decrescendo - Slowly get quieter
Slurs - Connect the notes/don't breathe between
Bar./Euph. - It means that the baritone and euphonium plays there and I don't unless there isn't enough sound and the conductor directs me to play
Staccato - Light and separated 
FF - Fortissimo which is very loud (still have good tone though)
Accents - Make the note stand out by starting loud and quieting down as the note dies out (only on how many beats the note is worth)