Finished!!!!

Last weekend was my senior recital and I feel so relieved that it is done. I'm very happy with the way that it went and am pleased that I didn't settle. I think my hard work paid off and showed through in my performance. I got a lot of compliments and am very happy with the final outcome.

One week to go!!!

My recital is next week and I'm feeling pretty pumped for it. In my lesson this week, we worked out keeping my space...egg in the mouth!!!! Recital went pretty well and Mr. Phil told me that Doppelganger was premium (not exact words). In practice with him today we worked on keeping that space more and made some super progress. I'm really getting comfortable with my music and feeling good about my recital.

I win!!

I sang yesterday on recital and performed "Lydia" and got all the words and felt awesome when I finished!!! My rep is really coming together and I'm feeling more and more prepared for my recital. Life is falling in to place right now and it takes a lot of stress out of daily thinking. Now that the musical is over I will have more time to practice as well. I'm super excited for my recital but can't believe that it is only two weeks away. :S Craziness!!! I just gotta keep with it and stay focus and everything will work out.

Spring Break!!!!

I don't know if you are "required" to blog over spring break so I'm gonna do it anyway. It's a great way to think outside of my brain so if I'm supposed to or did extra it doesn't matter. Spring break has been wild with trying to catch up on homework, prepare for my jury :@, working, and trying to enjoy break so I feel like I got one. I'm feeling pretty confident with most of my songs but there are a couple that just won't stick in my brain. I'm a bit worried about my jury but I'm just trying to stay confident that it will all work out. On an awesome note, my ear did finally open up and stay open and my virus is gone. So I'm on the healthy side of life once again, just wish it had happened like a month ago. Well it's back to my studies before work. Matty signing out.

The spring break approach

This week has been wild. My ear has been opening and re-closing so it has been a wild time practicing since the sound keeps changing. As of right now, it is open and I think it staying!!!!! YEAH!!!!! It has been a super stressful week with jury coming up, musical tech up, personal stuff with work and such, and classes. It has me stretched super thin and sometimes I don't wanna do anything because there is so many directions to me. Even though, this week has been pretty good. We worked on a bit of everything in my lesson, testing my memory. I feel that is the best way to really work myself hard, just have the music and a little guide if I get stuck. For the most part the songs went pretty well and with this week to hardcore practice, I think I'll be ready for my jury!!! It's only 13 days away!!! AAAHHH!!!

The stress never ends

So this week began with yet again another trip to the doctor's office. Four weeks in a row.  :(   Though I'm now recovering and closer to normal, I was/am suffering from a head/chest cold virus. That put me once again in the position that my practice was limited to listening to my recordings. I am soooo stressed with all of this. Going from singing to I can't sing. I still can't hear myself correctly because of my left ear (which is slowing getting better) but still. I'm starting to freak out since my jury in only a few weeks away and I haven't perform anything this semester. I'm still trying to get out of my music and into memory. I was so worried about it last night that it took me two hours to fall asleep after I took medicine with codeine in it. I'm just so worried that I won't pass my jury because I don't have any other options. Next semester is student teaching so it can't be pushed back. And this streak of illness is disrupting other classes too. There is just so much riding on all this right now that I can't really afford (in all meanings) to screw this up. I just need a miracle.

Week of greatness

This week has been great for despite still struggling through my ear infection. After getting the news from my doctor that my choices were to wait it out or have a tube put in, I decided it was time to getting vocalizing again despite only hearing normally on one side. I went to my lesson and got to work. Though the sound in my head is muffled, my pitch was pretty good and my languages are getting better and better. Throughout the week, my songs have been playing in my head so I know that my memory is getting better too. Today I practiced with Mr. Phil and it was awesome as well. We went through some of the songs that haven't been focused on in lessons and even with some stumbles it all went well. He even said that my languages have improved since last semester. I asked him how my voice sounded since it's odd in my head and he said that it was sounding great. You combine all this breakthrough work with the wonderful weather of this week and my mood couldn't get any better. Now it's time to keep listening and practicing and get ready for my jury in a month. :S