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A Great Lesson

November 1, 2005 at 8:48 PM

Ahhh! Talk about a good lesson!
Besides the fact I showed up 10 minutes late (which wasn;t my fault), had pink nail glue left on my fingers, and the remnants of very dark eye pencil drooping around my eyes from last night's escapades, it was fabulous!
Mr. Neal was very impressed with my Sevcik exercises, and gave me another set of them, along with a page of Kreutzer, a fifth position exercise to increase dexterity, and his traditional shifting exercise which I can do without "checking" the notes in first position now...BIG improvement.
I went on to stun him with a really good sautille; at our last lesson, he told me to begin thinking about it and practicing it on an open string. He started me on it so late because he said most people don't learn it correctly, and he wants me to be perfect at it. He said he's overprotective because HE didn't learn it right the first time. Anyways, I was clocking an AWESOME sautille at 160 bpm, after only learning the technique ten days ago. Oh yeah!
Now I just have to learn how to do it at 100 bpm.

I graduated from Kreisler's Sicillienne and Rigaudon and moved on to Liebeslied, which was AWESOME AWESOME AWESOME.
And then, I confessed that I was double jointed, after perfectly performing some really nasty shifts that he changed the fignering on (which he said was freaky). He said that if I was double jointed, I could learn to vibrato with my double joint, creating a "3d" vibrato. Which is, like, ROCK ON!

I love good days. I wish I had more of them, but we can't have everything, now, can we? Only bad thing is that I didn't finish my English and Literature. I can tell you what I'll be doing tonight....

From Sydney Menees
Posted on November 1, 2005 at 9:29 PM
Gosh dangit! Your phone's busy.
From Sydney Menees
Posted on November 1, 2005 at 9:29 PM
For those of you confused - That had nothing to do with her entry.
From Natasha Marsalli
Posted on November 2, 2005 at 12:16 PM
Yes, everyone...Sydney is prone to making strange comments that no on eunderstands. We apologize for any inconvenience we may have caused you. ;-)

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