Thursday, March 30, 2017

New Acquisitions

I got the Zombies book in the mail to-day!  I haven't read very much yet (I want to go a bit slowly in order to make it last), but I've already seen two pictures I hadn't seen before!


I think I neglected to mention this, but when I pre-ordered the book, I also ordered Colin Blunstone's Collected set:


Earlier this month, the price of one of the flutes I've been looking at dropped something like $80, so I bought a flute too:


For this project, the primary goal is to learn Mike Vicker's parts in songs like "Smokey Day" and "I Know She Will."  I've been practicing nearly every day for a week, but I know only three notes so far (Bb, A, and G), so it'll be a while before I'm proficient enough to play those parts.