Efficiency

Again, I think about how to practice conducting the most efficiently.

I need to not feel like I need to conduct through every measure every time I practice conducting.  Because sometimes it's okay to just work on the "tough parts."  I think the reason I am not as comfortable with the tempo changes is because I rarely just spend time working on those.  And I need to.  So that's what I am doing this next week before my first conducting lesson.

I also think it's important to hear the music in my head, but the problem I have with King David is that I cannot find a recording that I like.  I have said this before, but sometimes it becomes counter productive.  For example, when I cannot quite remember how something sounds, I like to listen to it once before I shut off the recording and shape the music how I hear it in my head.  However, many of the recordings don't have the tempos I like.  So then I hear tempos I dislike.

The end.