Scale of the day was Bb major and Bb minor. I played with a drone tone and with a drum beat and I also made a backing track chord progression 1-5 with Bb and F. I played over the chord changes. I played with a YouTube song and changed the key to Bb and played over it and played It Is Well in all 12 keys. I felt like the practice session was fruitful. I listened to recordings I made and it helped me recognize areas that need improvement and areas I am happy about. It was a good practice time:) I am starting to relax my hands more which is a win.

How do you feel most days when you practice? Today felt pretty good! I played with Bb drone and F drone and played long tones and It Is Well in all the flat keys. I really loved practicing today and wish it could have been longer. Here is a recording of the improv with the F drone. I liked the tone and the variety of slow and rhythmic notes. For improvement, I would try to not crack a couple of the notes and more dynamics.

I practiced yesterday, but forgot to post it. Today, I played It is Well in all 12 keys. It was far from perfect, but I will keep at it. I went outside and played It Is Well a few times, because I find it helpful to play in different environments, although it was quite hot and humid and I was slightly worried about the pads on my flute, so I didn't stay out long I also played long tones and really thought about tone colors. I was purposely trying to play a bad sound and then a good sound and everything in between. I find it freeing to play all sorts of tone colors, that way I don't feel like I have to only achieve one tone color. I also played along with some Rumba Drum Metronome Loop while I played It Is Well, that Vic had me play with in our last lesson. Here is the link in case you want to play with it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01ZbvPQby9k

One of my warm up exercises Vic has given me in my lessons, is to play all the notes in the scale with a metronome, starting at the low notes and working my way up to the higher notes. They key of the day is A and here is my warm up with the metronome. I could have kept to the beat a bit better and some of the high notes could have sounded better. I liked that most of the time I kept on track and had some dynamics.

What have you guys been practicing today? I spent most of my day today in the hospital with my mother in law who fell last night. I got home and practiced some prayer music with Kimberly and Alberto Riviera. It was so nice to feel peaceful and relax. As I played along I worked on tuning and was mostly successful. There were some notes that were out of tune, but it was good for my soul. Here is the song if you are interested in playing along. https://youtube.com/shorts/uOKhmA-0R1s?is=_OzN0GQmcTkwxHzI