Practiced for 35 minutes today. Started with line 5 on page 11 of purple book. I tried to run it at a reasonable tempo to see where it needed some work. I struggle to hit the accidental in the 3rd to last bar, as well as the slurring rhythm isn't always played consistently. So I worked on it. First i played bar by bar, and started over when I made a mistake, then I went to the metronome once I had a better feel for the study. I ran it a few times at a slow tempo, and gradually increased. Some mistakes started to fade, but others came into play. The slurs were more challenging to play accurately at a faster tempo. So I stopped and sang it. Then played through it again once I had the rhythm in my head. it became easier. By the time it got too late to hear my dog barking at the obnoxious noise, it wasn't perfect, but I was pleased with the improvement. Need to work on getting an unusual rhythm with greater ease and less time, but that will come with practice.

I spent about 10 minutes of interspersed time to play some band rep. Finally getting the Holst piece down pat, and its going well. Quite pleased with it. Need to check fingerings for accidental sharps in ascending pattern..it doesn't sound nice.

Overall happy, could be a little more confident in the scale study, but I won't get much farther tonight.