Primrose, Cmaj 7th pos all strings. ~ 25 mins. Hand fatigue wasn't as bad, but may have had something to do with starting out on lower strings instead of upper.
Schradieck, #1 2nd half on G. Felt it by the end - I think I'm going to continue doing a few lines a day on G in addition to running through half/full exercise on a diff string.
Just a quick pre-lesson warmup - don't actually teach for another hour, but needed to get my fingers working a little bit here.
Tuesday, August 5, 2008
Monday, August 4, 2008
Monday, part deux
I got a good 90 minutes in this evening. A lot (probably too much) of tension in LH in high position on low strings - gotta work on that and need to remember to ask Davidson about it. I also need to start writing down how long I practiced everything, because... yeah, times might be a good thing to note.
Anyhoo.
Primrose: Cmaj, fifth pos. All strings (as mentioned above, LOTS of LH tension)
Sevcik op1: 1, 1st line + a few measures. Having problems putting down 4 with the drone and with leaving all other fingers down - top of the hand wants to stop the higher string as well. Something to ask about.
Sevick op2: 1st exercise all strings, plus read ahead a little bit.
Schradieck: 1, G. Got the first half before hand fatigue became an issue. I think I need to focus a bit more on work on the G to strengthen LH a bit more.
Trott: #2, getting both notes to sound clearly and evenly. Did some work with just open strings to try to get consistency there - it helped, but still needs a little bit of work. I tend to lean to the high string on the longer notes. This, too, can be resolved.
Gazda: #2. reworked a few fingerings, as the C on G doesn't want to speak on the downward runs when it's the last note. I'm thinking that playing something else on the G before the C will help.
Anyhoo.
Primrose: Cmaj, fifth pos. All strings (as mentioned above, LOTS of LH tension)
Sevcik op1: 1, 1st line + a few measures. Having problems putting down 4 with the drone and with leaving all other fingers down - top of the hand wants to stop the higher string as well. Something to ask about.
Sevick op2: 1st exercise all strings, plus read ahead a little bit.
Schradieck: 1, G. Got the first half before hand fatigue became an issue. I think I need to focus a bit more on work on the G to strengthen LH a bit more.
Trott: #2, getting both notes to sound clearly and evenly. Did some work with just open strings to try to get consistency there - it helped, but still needs a little bit of work. I tend to lean to the high string on the longer notes. This, too, can be resolved.
Gazda: #2. reworked a few fingerings, as the C on G doesn't want to speak on the downward runs when it's the last note. I'm thinking that playing something else on the G before the C will help.
Monday
Despite the lack of posts, I *did* practice some Sunday as well as earlier today (about 45 mins each session), but it was primarily sight-reading to try to stave off boredom. I think that's really the hardest part about not having had a lesson in almost 6 months, I've not been given anything other than remedial work so I don't have anything to move forward on. But, oh well.
Going for another session tonight.
Going for another session tonight.
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