Reflection

In the Automatic Chromatic Warmp ups, I have various problems, specially when we are going down the scale, because I get very confussed specially when you go from B to Bb, because moving the fingers is sometimes confussing. What I can do to practice it, is to play it slowly and then increasing the speed in order to get the notes right, and not going ove the mistake and later having to work harder to fix it. Another place where I get problems, is in letter C and D that you have to go down the scale and automatically up, this is hard for me because I have to work harder in my breathing and my posture, because I dont have enough air left and the sound is not the best quality. Another issue I have when playing is my posture, because I either cross my legs, or put tension on them, and this makes my breathing be bad, and not have a good sound. From the songs we play in the concert band, the one I have more problems with is Motown Revue, because I have only played it twice, and didnt know how it sounded. I have the terrible problem that I know how to play the songs, because I listen to other clarinets play, and thats how I get my music solved in two seconds, I am very bad at sight reading my music, and thats an issue, because someday I will have to teach other people to play it and there will be no other person or people who I can listen to, and it will be a problem for me later on in band. So I have to take the time, and mark with pencil the measures and rest and specific places where I'm having problems, so I can solve them with my teacher. In Motown Revenue, what really complicates me, is the eighth note rests, they annoy me and I skip them, so I have to take extra time with that song so I can solve the problems, form measure 17 to measure 41, where all the rests that are problematic for me are. The other song, in which I have problems with is in A fifth of Beethoven, in measures 20 to 24, where the clarinets have a series of 16th notes, that are sometimes confussing because of their speed. Each time I play them I get one step closer to actually getting the notes right, because I start playing them slowly, and then I increase the speed to what it actually is. The problem in this part of the song is the rhythm, because its note hard, but the parts that confuse me, is after three beets in G going down and up in the 16th notes, thats what is hard for me in this song.