Sometimes without meaning to, my practice becomes a mirror of the quality of my thinking. Days when I feel optimistic, calm, focused my practice is such. Days when I feel tired, spazzy, over-caffeinated- well yes. That would be tonight. I just couldn't decide on what to play so I just played through the first 4 lines of like every concerto I've ever worked on, played scales as fast as possible, lip trilled till I couldn't lip trill no more, then watched Youtube videos. Yeah. But then, I had a stroke of inspiration: tonight should be my night o' improvisation. I try to work in some improv time to my regular practice but it's been a while. But tonight, my ADHD goldfish brain had some pretty creative ideas for some interesting music. I came up with a pretty sweet bass line inspired by my social security number (I'd describe it, but identity theft...) and then made up a little ditty for each YouTube comment that I was reading. So many exclamation points!!!!
I'm not sure I'd call tonight productive, but it was fun. And maybe tomorrow, fewer cups of dark roast...
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