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Musical Goal Setting 2023

12/4/2022

It is time for the yearly stock taking part 2, the setting of new goals while considering my long-term goals.

Toronto Concert Band. These folks have standards, the music is challenging, the concerts are professionally produced, and it is fun.
Fade/Dissolve noise trio. The musical mayhem continues.
The Toronto improvisation scene including Audiopollenation, and the Toronto Improvisers Orchestra and friends.
Drum lessons.
Summer Jazz workshop. Every year I attend I learn new valuable ideas, strategies, and tactics for my students.
Jam with my friends a few times a month.
Continuing my university studies at Athabasca. What a surprise this has been.
Continue Breakfast piano minutes.
Keep working with the Malletkat GS.

What are your goals?
David

12/3/2022

Earlier in the year I posted this:
"Top 5 things I can do to grow as a musician in 2022

The goal is to update the sounds in my head for a more modern outlook, sound, and sensibilities."

How did it turn out?

With so much crap competing for my attention online it was difficult listening to contemporary music but, listening to JazzFM in the car helped.
I do practice daily. But it's mostly on percussion. In early fall I spent Saturday afternoons playing piano with a jazz group which was a tremendous help. This winter I will be playing piano in the Toronto Concert Band. Resuming my daily piano minutes is also worth considering in 2023.
Composing took place with the group Fade/Dissolve and at improvised events.
I tried putting a group playing original music together, but my old pieces sounded so dated and stale, aka 1990's, that I gave up on that project.
Drum lessons are roaring along.

David