Practice Notes

violin

Played for another hour and a half after lessons last night and my earlier entry. The etude is going to be brutally fun, and perhaps a little painful. I've been able to get the arm in better position; and, thankfully times some exponent my left hand is getting stronger.

I'm very very anxious to start work on some of the variations. Within any real limits, they are going to be awesome. The basic notes are also helping me with site reading to some extent as well--who'd ever thought I'd get off my lazy butt and accomplish this.

I've noticed that sometimes, the beauty of the music nearly hypnotizes me. I'm going to have to watch that ,as it leads to messiness. This instrument....!