Flute: Practice (C & alto pieces for flute choir)

I spent some time practicing Brian Allred's arrangement of Richard Wagner's "Elsa's Procession to the Cathedral" for alto. Hours. Days. I'm *still* practicing it. AARRGGH. It is SO LONG. My arms are terrifically sore now, I think they're gonna shrivel up and I'll have to file for disability because I no longer have functioning limbs.

I stretched out some, then picked up Mercedes to work on "Silver Celebration" (Catherine McMichael). I'm on 1st flute for this monster, and there's a few trouble spots all strung together to make up basically the whole damned piece. I diligently broke them down, figured out which alternate fingerings to use, and started moshing w/ the metronome.

Tempo is dotted-quarter=76bpm. I set the 'nome to 50 and gradually worked up to 65, playing about 4x at each step to really cement the muscle memory. Kicking ass and taking names, or so I thought. I decided to pop it up to 76, just for kicks.

And realized the entire time, I'd had it set to QUARTER note, not dotted quarter.

*HEADDESK*

I gave up for the day.