UPDATE TIME ![:alarm_clock: :alarm_clock:](https://community.justinguitar.com/images/emoji/twitter/alarm_clock.png?v=12)
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Such a busy month
the first thing to report is that at work I’ve been appointed as one of our school head’ s assistants, which in practical words means I’m now responsible for our kindergarten complex: only one School Head on 4 different territorial Districts with schools from kindergartens up to 14 years-old boys and girls and one trustee in each school, as you can imagine she delegates a lot and that means more work and responsibilities for me…
Also one of our two classes has been cut, we have now only one of 29 children, which is for our Education Minister an appropriate number for 1 Teacher, we’re 2 Teachers together only 2 hours a day, for taking care of the children at lunchtime and maybe, if we manage for a 45 minutes of educational activity a day, so that we can still call it a school and not a baby-parking or a chicken-coop ![:cry: :cry:](https://community.justinguitar.com/images/emoji/twitter/cry.png?v=12)
…but I’ve been able to cope insofar, I managed to find time and mental energy for guitar practice, which is actually turning out to be my lifeline…
CLASSICAL GUITAR
This month the 2 most challenging pieces in the book…YAY! Am I not lucky? ![:zipper_mouth_face: :zipper_mouth_face:](https://community.justinguitar.com/images/emoji/twitter/zipper_mouth_face.png?v=12)
What I have been achieving
- I’ve been able to analyse, identify, visualise and memorise the structure of both pieces; I can play them from memory.
- I didn’t get crazy or lost through all the Leyenda’s repetitions, but gradually improving my focus, my being present in the flow of music and at the present note.
- I’ve been enjoying a lot my practice sessions and they helped me to re-center myself in the flow of life events.
- …probably more…
- A brand new super cool Classical Babe!!!
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What I’ll achieve
Better technique, legato, lovely crescendo e decrescendo of unique and wonderfully graceful leaves’ fallings…ok you get the idea…not sure if in this life or my next one ![:joy: :joy:](https://community.justinguitar.com/images/emoji/twitter/joy.png?v=12)
To be honest I’m already very happy with myself for what I learned even if my brain’s Slow Neurons Union has called for a strike against the recent work overload and sued the composers for kicking them in the butt to make them connect faster and speed the playing up ![:see_no_evil: :see_no_evil:](https://community.justinguitar.com/images/emoji/twitter/see_no_evil.png?v=12)
STRUMMING
I managed to be consistent, 15 minutes/5 days a week (10 with the metronome, which is my best companion and makes me relax in myself, no need for struggling)… it’s not much, it’s not enough; I’m doing my October routine tomorrow and I need to plan more. I didn’t play much, but preferred to go easy on myself and enjoyed muted strumming along the original recordings, sometimes applying well known patterns, sometimes searching for new ones, often going wild, just trying to stay on the beat and see if I could catch the feeling of the song.
I started the Strumming Dynamics Course and worked on the “4 bars feeling”; I recorded one of my practice 5 min session with the metronome on friday: only one 5bars mistake! ![:partying_face: :partying_face:](https://community.justinguitar.com/images/emoji/twitter/partying_face.png?v=12)
WIND OF CHANGE
It’s now a matter of working mainly on technique, challenging stuff actually…I’m putting it aside for a while because I’m getting a bit bored of repetitions. I’m sure I’ll get back to it with renewed enthusiasm one day…hopefully soon!
I forgot to say that I also started with the pick manipulation and I think I’m making good progress ![:grin: :grin:](https://community.justinguitar.com/images/emoji/twitter/grin.png?v=12)