With our concert coming up in March we’ve had to do a lot of preparing and fixing in these past few practices. My part of music is particularly hard for me, and in order to be able to improve and play it the best I can I’ll have to sacrifice a lot of time to practice. Personally what discourages me is that I practice what I don’t do well, so what I play doesn’t sound very good. I know that this is how it’s supposed to be, but somewhere in my head I think “why play this when I can practice something that sounds well”. Yesterday a very accomplished drummer, Eric Hargrove, came to play with us, and he motivated me in a way. I thought that he got where he got because he practiced what he was bad at, and got good at it. I feel less discouraged now to sound bad in practice, and more encouraged to work on what I don’t do well and do well because of it.
