johnelwood:

I think again you have really good points, thanks. I am going to take people’s advice from these discussions. I think how I think about playing/practicing very important. I have often practiced by how the lips felt, how it felt when I COULD do certain things I wanted to do but I think practice needs to be more disciplined and planned.

In ways it’s training that needs to be very rigorous in very specific ways. There are so many aspects to practice where you do very different things for very different reasons. I think I will be looking for a teacher again. I haven’t spoken with Greg via Skype yet as I am just getting the app working.

Maybe too sensitive to how the lips feel, or maybe not sensitive enough, or maybe not to the right things…