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Yo Yo Ma on practicing:

I actually enjoy practicing more and more. […]  As a child, I practiced because I had to practice and you didn’t want to mess up. But that’s not a good thing. You want to please your teacher, you want to please your parents, you want to please your peers. 

And now I practice because I’ve experienced so much love that you practice out of loving a phrase, loving motivic change, loving a structure or harmony change or the way a sound can get to something.

accidentally playing a minor 2nd with your section

ignoring 1st time repeat and 2nd time repeats and getting lost af

ignoring time and key signature changes and making the worst sounds ever

sight reading contemporary scores

playing a solo and faltering on one note

missing your sectional cue and hits

wasting your time instead of practising your new part and then getting to rehearsal trying to sight read the whole part

double tounging

excessive articulations

Symphonie n.° 25 en sol mineur, K. 183: I. Allegro con brio – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart