Thursday, July 31, 2008

Practice Session 1

Did pretty well today, got a bit over 30 mins in so far.

Primrose - Cmaj iii: G Did the 'scale' over all four strings along with some moments of honesty thanks to the tuner... Very revealing. VERY revealing. One more thing I need to work on.
Trott #3 - smooth changes between notes and stretching within position between some of the trickier intervals (I have small hands, reaching an octave in 1st pos can be a pain from time to time). This is a LOT easier with the Jeandel, at least sound production wise. The Carlesso sounds a lot scratchier and more forced.
Sevcik op2- 1, all strings. Getting a little bored with this one, but I did notice a difference (especially on E) between doing it right and doing it wrong.
Schradieck - 1: 1-13 on D. Started to feel fatigue in LH so put away, will return later in the day.
Gazda - 2 w/ metronome. Notes are there, need to work on dotted 8th-16th rhythms with the metronome a bit more, and then just work on making it as pretty as possible for my next lesson (after all, I shoulda been working on this more over the summer... whoopsies).

I'm feeling a little guilty for not digging out Yost or Hrimaly or Flesch to work on alongside the Primrose, but... those will probably be assigned at some point in the not terribly distant future anyway. For now, just getting the time and the effort put in should be enough.

Hrm. Maybe I should dig out the Bach for later in the day.

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