I did it! I completed all 31 days of the Baermann Bootcamp! I’ll be honest, it turned out to be a long, and at times, annoying challenge, but in general I’m happy I did it and proud of the accomplishment. So here’s some background on why I decided to subject myself to this torture…by mid-April, […]
Finally I have a bit of time and I thought I would post about my Navy Band audition nearly three (!) months ago. If you don’t feel like reading a lot today, here’s is the long story short…I felt extremely prepared, and I probably played the best I’ve ever played in an audition for a […]
Phase 2 is complete! Wow, the last four weeks certainly went by fast. In fact, it feels like I just started this whole process just the other day, but it was 8 weeks ago! Anyway, back then I really wasn’t sure what I would focus on in “phase 3”, other than a two week “taper”. […]
Honestly, I can’t believe its been three years since I shipped myself off to navy boot camp. It feels as if the three years I’ve actually spent in the Navy has gone faster than the eight months that I had to wait to go to boot camp. Crazy how that is. I’ve never truly regretted […]
Seriously. I don’t. This has been a topic that I’ve been thinking about a lot the past few months. In the Navy, I have worked with all levels of musicians, from people barely able to play their instruments (thank goodness not at the band right now!) to people who have advanced degrees from major music […]
Well, another year in the books. This year went by very fast! I think its true, that the older you get, the faster time goes. I kind of wish that it was the other way around. Not that I hated my childhood, I just think that adulthood is way more fun. Lets see, what happened […]
So lets see…its been almost three years since I’ve taken any kind of audition. Wow that’s crazy! Time has flown by since I’ve been in the Navy. Tomorrow I’m headed to Washington, D.C. once again to be one of the probably hundred clarinetists to take the President’s Own audition. This time is going to be quite […]
Lately I’ve been struggling to be motivated to practice something that’s not ensemble music. Because, let’s be honest, that stuff doesn’t always make you better (unless its Grainger’s Molly on the Shore! Haha…I played the solo part a few weeks ago at a wind ensemble concert – talk about sweating bullets!). But finally some great […]
As you can probably imagine because of my lack of blog posts, I have been insanely busy this summer. So a vacation was exactly what I needed. After spending two weeks in Colorado, I have been thrown back into reality and I am back to work…plus I’m starting a new teaching gig at a high […]
This past week I got to do something that I haven’t had a chance to do since I was in school. I got to play real chamber music! My co-worker, who is a horn player, put together a chamber music recital with a bunch of us from the band. We played the Trio for Horn, […]
Sandy Herrera, Clarinet