Today’s Practice Session

Some days it’s difficult to get stuck into the repetition of practicing, yet lately I’ve been so excited with the new music I’m working on that I am stopping at the harp multiple times throughout the day to rehearse a couple of measures or phrases.  That’s in addition to a regular practice session, which seems to keep getting longer and longer (thank goodness my day job is flexible!).

Working on technique was never my thing, just ask my parents who constantly had to enforce practice time.  But I’ve realised that some of the exercises in my technique books, such as Bochsa and Nadermann, actually sound beautiful enough to play for background music.

Here’s a short clip my husband took of me practicing this morning…just before the kiddos started joining in on the piano, recorder and tambourine!  It’s on my newly-created YouTube channel: