Matt Roberts Music

The Return of an Old Project (and Losing Bad Habits)

I’m currently in Liverpool and attemptin to restart an old project with a few musicians here.

It’s refrehing to get some time to play and more importantyly not to play. Since I left college Im on the up. I think this is due to the fact that I’m well rested and not destroying my chops on a weekly basis. For example; in my second year I had a day where I would play for the Jazz course Big Band in the Morning (2hrs), Wind Band in the afternoon (2:00 hrs) and then play lead in the BMus Big Band (2hrs. After which I would jump on a train to a Big Band outside of college (2hrs).

I would be destroyed at the end of it. And because I was an idiot I’d be in the practice room at the next day at 8 o’clock getting frustrated about bad chops!

Being able to rest is helping a massive amount. I was quite happily popping out F’s and F sharps at a big band rehearsal the other night and I had a nice string of well controlled double G’s. So I’m well on track to get my double A’s back.

Good Times.