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.

Bad Violinist...

....didn't practice today (and didn't go beyond the first 30 minute session yesterday).

Tomorrow, I'll be making up for this (and then some).

Practice 1

30 mins

Primrose - Cmaj ii : G
Trott - #2: focus on smooth finger changes and string crossings. especially the 00 - 20 - 03 transition.
Schradieck - I 1-25: E
Sevcik - 1: All strings

Whoops....

... well, there went four months of not updating this blog at all.

It's not a huge deal, as my plan for summer lessons fell through due to finances and I was honestly quite happy to take some time off to rest my shoulders. I've still been teaching so it's not as bad as it could be. I also played a concert in late June, so I've only really been 'off' for a month. Not bad. Definitely time to get back into things before school starts.

Right now, focusing on 30 minute sessions, hopefully 3x -4x / day. Just going to focus on the etude / remedial work for the time being. I'll slowly expand the time and repertoire once I get going with it again, but I don't want to get too far into anything because I don't know what Davidson is going to want me to study. All I know is that I'm bored with Bach and I'm thinking that Bruch might be too big of a bite for me to chew at the moment. We'll see what happens.