This week, I am visiting my parents in Kentucky. I brought my Kreutzer and Bach and metronome but decided to play my dad's violin, rather than bring my own, and to leave the scale book in Somerville.
Any scale I can remember (the fingerings for, that is - I think I can remember the order of notes!)
Kreutzer Number 6
Bach B-Minor Partita: First Double
Last week, I practiced about twice, and the movement I was trying to learn was quite difficult. It's filled with chords that are hard to set up. In some cases, you have to move a finger from one string to another to go to a chord from its preceding note, that or use the free fingers in an unnatural way. If I had my druthers, I'd take about 10 seconds' pause before every chord. Unfortunately, when a chord is supposed to be climactic, the pause ruins the effect.
This week, I'm practicing the Double and reviewing the Allemanda. I am particularly determined to get somewhere with my practicng this week because my parents, who haven't heard me play violin in a long time, are listening to me practice. I don't want them to think I've "lost it."
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