u/rlawd11 — reddlx

After ~6 years I'm getting back into playing for a local orchestra. I have until early September to get back in shape, so I think I'll be fine with regular practice. Currently I'd say I'm a passable player but not where I'd like to be.

Most pressing issues for me are

Endurance(i believe should just come with practice)
Smoothing out lip slurs
Getting a fuller sound in the lower range(will be on 4th)
Transposing

Any advice on exercises/études/books? Most of my resources are back at my childhood home so I need a restock.

I feel like I must be misreading or missing a step in this pattern. It doesn't seem like a difficult pattern but I'm getting more thrown off than anything else I've done. I'm about 10 rows in and want to figure out of I'm missing a step that's coming up or if I've already missed something and need to start over.

It starts knitted flat and eventually switches to in the round, but I'm not seeing anything that addresses uniting the flat section (i see where it goes to in the round but not what joins the first ~40 rows). It also seems like the front will be very small (divisions for XL have shoulders 18st, back 43st, but only 2 for the front to start?)

https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/slatter---tee