3 Jun 2007, Sun: Before I left home, I spent close to half an hour practising the first, second and fourth movement of Marcello's Sonata in G major. Much time was spent practising the fourth movement at fairly slow tempo.
4 Jun 2007, Mon: I was feeling pretty tired. However, I decided to just practise for at least 15 minutes. I am loving the double bass. It brings some relief to my slightly depressed soul. So without realising, I had spent close to half an hour practising the Romance movement of Keyper's Romance and Rondo.
6 Jun 2007, Wed: Prior to the double bass lesson with Mr GM, I spent at least half-an-hour practising a study from Bottesion's 24 Exercises for Double Bass (edited by H Samuel Sterling), and Berkeley's Introduction and Allegro.
Then I had an enriching double bass lesson with Mr GM. It was quite a fulfilling lesson as I have practised Berkeley's Introduction and Allegro sufficiently enough that I wasn't sight-reading that day. As such, more time could be spent working on performing the work more musicially, than to figure out the technical aspects. I am loving double bass lessons.
9 Jun 2007, Sat: I spent close to half an hour working on a study on pentatonic scale from Charles Hoag's The New Scale Book: Foundation Studies in 20th century music for double bass. I hope that playing this set of studies can help train me to play contemporary music better. From the way my practice today has been, it seems to be good practice to work on these studies.
Afterwhich, I spent another close to half an hour practising Berkeley's Introduction and Allegro. I felt pleased that my rendition of Introduction and Allegro is starting to take some shape.
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In conclusion, I have managed to reach my set targets for this week, i.e. practise at least 15 minutes a day for at least 4 days of the week. However, I wished I could have practised as often as last week.
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