Jan. 29th.

Today I got together with Brooke to go over the rythyms on pg. 69 in the Krueger book. During class I realized I was a bit clueless about how to tap the rythym that I was assigned. It was the same rythym that I messed up on during my jury. So I asked Brooke to explain the rythym to me. The thing that had confused me was the 8th note connected to the 2 16th notes. She explained that it would've been the same if the notes weren't tied together and. The 8th was the same value as the two 16th notes. We went overabout 7 examples on the page. I wrote down the rythym and we tapped them together. We worked on A.P. for a half hour.

Jan 27th

January 26th, 2008
Today I went over the first page of Ch. #9 again. I tapped the rythym in my legs. Left and Right keeping the beat and Right keeping the off beats too. I went over the largo lento allegro stuff again. I think I should be able to have them all in order by the time a practice tomorrow. It should be cool. I spent about 15 minutes tapping the rhythyms. I was major self displine training to keep tapping those rythyms, but hey, I got through it, and I will get through it tomorrow, and before I know it I will be a rythym master. Am I spelling rythym right?

Jan. 25th * 26th.

Today I looked over the first page in Chapter 9. I wrote the rythym above the first two rythmic examples. I also reviewed the Italian tempo language. I tried to think of things to help me remember what largo and lento etc. meant. I was thinking well Largo rhymes with cargo and cargo can go really slowly, and Lento rhymes with pento, like pento beans. Cooking Pento beans might be a quicker process than unloading cargo, so that's my logic. Take it or leave it. I've taken it. I tapped the rythym below the rythym language a few times. Yesterday I also went over the Italian rhythm words also. So I've almost got those all completely in my head. I probably spent 10 minutes on A.P. on each of these days. Odios amigos