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The Zen Etude
The Zen Etude has begun. Practiced all Suzuki, first runs were excellent, got a little sloppy in 'some' of the repetitions--needs stamina!. Began what I'm calling the zen of etude one, described earlier.
I'm not certain how much I'm going to have to slow etude one down in the beginning, but this is about 'all' elements. So far, it's pretty slow, but I discovered tonality and even melody within the thing that I 'believe' will make the it bearable.
Practiced for a little over two hours. See above. I got through the etude several times, cheated on vibrato a little (shhhh!), and learned the Beatles "Yesterday" just for the heck of it. I think I'll master that'n, as it is very very melodic in F, with a bunch of potential accents existing. Also practiced "Old Man River" a little--it's very melodic as well.
I'm excited about the Gavotte--it's soooo dynamic. But then, I feel the same way about the Farmer's piece for the same reasons. I want to make those stacatto notes very crisp, but my instructor is making me smooth them out for the time being--which is probably best.
Ordered Nadine's Suzuki volume 3 cd today, and volume 4 book and cd. I'll go ahead and start collecting up through 6 for the time being, in the spirit that my unexpressed poorly understood love for violin has not diminished along the lines of the abstraction: 'after the first kiss'. Phenomonal.
I barely practiced 3rd position. I think I'm going to do that in a zen-way as well.
The Zen Etude has begun. Practiced all Suzuki, first runs were excellent, got a little sloppy in 'some' of the repetitions--needs stamina!. Began what I'm calling the zen of etude one, described earlier.
I'm not certain how much I'm going to have to slow etude one down in the beginning, but this is about 'all' elements. So far, it's pretty slow, but I discovered tonality and even melody within the thing that I 'believe' will make the it bearable.
Practiced for a little over two hours. See above. I got through the etude several times, cheated on vibrato a little (shhhh!), and learned the Beatles "Yesterday" just for the heck of it. I think I'll master that'n, as it is very very melodic in F, with a bunch of potential accents existing. Also practiced "Old Man River" a little--it's very melodic as well.
I'm excited about the Gavotte--it's soooo dynamic. But then, I feel the same way about the Farmer's piece for the same reasons. I want to make those stacatto notes very crisp, but my instructor is making me smooth them out for the time being--which is probably best.
Ordered Nadine's Suzuki volume 3 cd today, and volume 4 book and cd. I'll go ahead and start collecting up through 6 for the time being, in the spirit that my unexpressed poorly understood love for violin has not diminished along the lines of the abstraction: 'after the first kiss'. Phenomonal.
I barely practiced 3rd position. I think I'm going to do that in a zen-way as well.
posted by al justice | 5:06 PM
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