January 24th
I've been posting at my progress blog: alsprogress.blogspot.com--every night. But I wanted to write a few words and thought this a better place to do that. Reviewing my last post here, the centering thing continues. My playing has improved, but I think maybe one is always getting there to some extent. More precisely, it is really things like migrating from cusped to vibrato hold than a center issue at this point that I need to work on. I feel more relaxed, and recently have been really focusing on that relaxed feeling, having gone through a Suzuki, Amelia, Hilary festival of late related to basic poster, flowing machines, both around a straight spine.
I'm now in Suzuki 3 officially, though I'll be polishing Suzuki 2 forever probably as my ability evolves--hopefully as my ability evolves. The Boccherini is '''awesome''' and I '''love'''it greatly. I haven't worked on my standards much lately, but did add Bach's BVW997-3 from classical guitar--it too is '''awesome''' and my first really major adaptation. I took it from 'b' to 'e' for the convenience and in respect to low 'g' on the violin. I want to be able to get to the lowest note possible, because it really resonates when one does so. I also have some pretty nice shifting going on in the Bach, though there is a couple neat challenges on lower 'd' that should benefit me overall.
I recently started a project to bring Montclaire String Quartet to Big Creek High School, and War Elementary. I hope everyone enjoys them as much as I do; and, at a minimum feel strongly that it will be very different and hopefully inspiring for the kids--a big kid included. I was honored to have the inspiration to make this happen, and hope all goes well. They will be here on March 15th as it stands. Mr. Courts and Mr. Tucker are handling alot of the logistics for me.
Musically, I have good days, and I have bad days. Though my lhand is growing strong, my age and aches and pains tempt me routinely. All I can say, is wrong devil babbbeeee!. That said, another dynamic of this is I work like not one but two Ninjas, and part of it is overuse. So, I started taking my mini-breaks very serious, and that seems to have helped.
My element list is pretty stable, only having to add one monthly now. Thank God!. But tonight I added trills; and, some more legato exercises. The legato exercises should already exist, but the trills are 'relatively' new. I can play trills already from piano; and, control them fairly well--I added them for strengthining my f3-f4.
I'm having little trouble staying motivated in the big picture, but sometimes I struggle with day to day burnout. I haven't really learned to handle that too well yet, but am seeking solutions. I sometimes switch things around time-wise and this helps some. For instance, instead of 3 minutes per element, I'll hit each one and a half minute twice; and, sometimes mix my music practice in the middle and so forth.
But again in the big picture, I love violin though being a personally shy person, I have a little baggage in being able to see myself down the road if I continue excelling as I have tried to do. I need to work on this, but have the psychological makeup to find solutions.
My initial post: an intoxicating poising holds true, and the thing literally repeatedly seduces me though I know plenty about intoxication from having survived the 70's. This passion is an aspect of the challenge just mentioned, so I'll be looking at it, 'from the mountain'.
I'm now in Suzuki 3 officially, though I'll be polishing Suzuki 2 forever probably as my ability evolves--hopefully as my ability evolves. The Boccherini is '''awesome''' and I '''love'''it greatly. I haven't worked on my standards much lately, but did add Bach's BVW997-3 from classical guitar--it too is '''awesome''' and my first really major adaptation. I took it from 'b' to 'e' for the convenience and in respect to low 'g' on the violin. I want to be able to get to the lowest note possible, because it really resonates when one does so. I also have some pretty nice shifting going on in the Bach, though there is a couple neat challenges on lower 'd' that should benefit me overall.
I recently started a project to bring Montclaire String Quartet to Big Creek High School, and War Elementary. I hope everyone enjoys them as much as I do; and, at a minimum feel strongly that it will be very different and hopefully inspiring for the kids--a big kid included. I was honored to have the inspiration to make this happen, and hope all goes well. They will be here on March 15th as it stands. Mr. Courts and Mr. Tucker are handling alot of the logistics for me.
Musically, I have good days, and I have bad days. Though my lhand is growing strong, my age and aches and pains tempt me routinely. All I can say, is wrong devil babbbeeee!. That said, another dynamic of this is I work like not one but two Ninjas, and part of it is overuse. So, I started taking my mini-breaks very serious, and that seems to have helped.
My element list is pretty stable, only having to add one monthly now. Thank God!. But tonight I added trills; and, some more legato exercises. The legato exercises should already exist, but the trills are 'relatively' new. I can play trills already from piano; and, control them fairly well--I added them for strengthining my f3-f4.
I'm having little trouble staying motivated in the big picture, but sometimes I struggle with day to day burnout. I haven't really learned to handle that too well yet, but am seeking solutions. I sometimes switch things around time-wise and this helps some. For instance, instead of 3 minutes per element, I'll hit each one and a half minute twice; and, sometimes mix my music practice in the middle and so forth.
But again in the big picture, I love violin though being a personally shy person, I have a little baggage in being able to see myself down the road if I continue excelling as I have tried to do. I need to work on this, but have the psychological makeup to find solutions.
My initial post: an intoxicating poising holds true, and the thing literally repeatedly seduces me though I know plenty about intoxication from having survived the 70's. This passion is an aspect of the challenge just mentioned, so I'll be looking at it, 'from the mountain'.
posted by al justice | 9:39 PM
