A snapshot into my practice life ...

I said I would share how my newly structured practice is going. Here are some facts ... 

In one week's time I've spent 22 hours at the dulcimer in intentional practice.

I have focused on:

• arranging(for myself & students) - notation is separate time.
• backup (for 11 of the tunes listed below)
• ear training (slow jams are good for that)
• extended arpeggios and scale runs (exercises built out of actual tunes)
• tremolos and triplets (within the context of tunes)
• improved swing
• increased tempo

In these tunes:

• Albert Montmarquette's
• Bach's Bourrée in Em
• Beggar's Belief
• Come Before Winter
• Crested Hens
• Done Gone
• Falls of Richmond
• Frenchie's
• The Gale
• Holme's Lane
• La Valse Pour les Petites Jeunes Filles
• Leather Britches
• McDonald's
• Reel de Montreal
• Saudade de Uberaba
• Shenandoah Falls
• Turkey in the Straw
• Valse Nadine
• We Three Kings

Whew! Enough of this. I've got work - and play - to do!