Soooo…less than four weeks until I leave for the Navy! I really cannot believe it is almost here already. When I first found out when my ship date was, I was so depressed, because the month of May felt like an eternity away. But I had a feeling that it would go by fairly fast, and […]
Read this before reading my post… I recently came across this article and I wanted to share with all my musician friends. I feel like this author nailed it right on the head. So many teachers nowadays focus on getting the student to practice in a quantitative way, instead of a qualitative way. Its fine if you practice […]
Over the past couple weeks I’ve been preparing for the latest Ad Hoc concert this past Saturday in which I’m played in Copland’s The Tenderland Suite. I remember while I was in my undergrad at CSU, the opera department actually did the full production of this opera, and although I did not play in the […]
Lately I have begun to realize that in the next few months my life is about to change drastically…and I’m having a ton of emotions because of it. I’ve fallen into the comfortable routine of going to work all day, then coming home and practicing. Not that I particularly like that routine…there’s just a certain […]
This is a great article about what attributes a great musician has when they practice from The Musician’s Way Blog. http://musiciansway.com/blog/?p=4586 What I love about this article is the lists of “deep learner” attributes vs. the “shallow learner” attributes. Mr. Klickstien nails it on the head for me, and explains it better than I ever […]
Lately I have been thinking: what makes a virtuoso player, well, virtuoso? Talent? Hard work? Natural physical ability? Crazy fingers? This question is always on my mind, because technique is something that I have struggled with for nearly my entire musical career.. While I was at Eastman, I often felt like I had to work […]
Took some time tonight to do some uploading of the videos from my recital…so here’s the Sutermeister and the Poulenc. Â That’s all I got so far because my computer is slow! Enjoy!
Ok, so yeah. I have barely touched my clarinets since my last post. I’ve gotten a real bad case of the lazies the past couple weeks. Probably the only productive thing I’ve done in the last two weeks is go to the gym!  Oh and I’ve been playing Mario Bros Wii. Man, that game is […]
Not sure what happened between last week and this week, but I am so not motivated. Â Last week, I got back from DC, I had this crazy, unexplainable drive to get better at clarinet, and I was even back in the practice room 2 days after the audition. Â I had a good few days of […]
I’ve been kind of avoiding writing a blog about my audition on Monday, but I have come to the conclusion the few people who read my blog are probably waiting to hear details about it! The experience was…normal. It was a pretty standard audition, and I played well. Now, I pride myself in having a […]
Sandy Herrera, Clarinet