Violinist.com - Because you can't say enough about the violin

News by E-mail
Violinist.com - Violin Blogs - Natasha Marsalli - Blog Entry
Printer-friendly version
Natasha Marsalli

July 9, 2005 at 11:53 AM

It's so frustrating when you go back to review and you can't play some of the pieces. Several very important/good pieces in Book Five, I never polished due to the fact that my teacher didn't push me at all, and I was in a state of violin hatred in my youth (which only subsided about three years ago). So now, I'm polishing Book Five. It's both embaressing and humiliating to have to skip down from Book Seven/Eight to relearn pieces. I can play the Bach A minor better than the Vivaldi Concerto in G minor. Looking back at my book, I can't believe some of the fingerings my previous teacher had me do; no wonder I had so much trouble with it! I remember that being the only piece other than the Bach Double to ever truly utterly frustrate me for longer than a half an hour. And now I must redo.

So for all those teachers out there...PLEASE never breeze through a Book, regardless if the student has changed violin sizes. S/he will later curse your memory.

Stupid hurricane's moving in too. The cone they show on TV makes it look like nothing will happen to Florida, but one has only to look at the satellite pictures to see the truth; pretty much half of the nasty swirly thing of terror is expected to hit the gulfside---which is right where I live of course.

Okay. I'm done venting my frustration on all you innocent victims of my writage. Have a nice day!

From Carley Anderson
Posted on July 9, 2005 at 12:39 PM
I agree...don't you hate it when teachers force you to use certain fingerings? I prefer suggestions rather than "USE THE FOURTH FINGER HERE!" Everyone has a different hand, so why not let them at least try it, and maybe they will discover that they need your help and will ASK for it!

Hope you don't get hit too hard by the hurricane.

From Sydney Menees
Posted on July 9, 2005 at 5:10 PM
Natti---Please don't die in the hurricanes. And about your review problem, my teacher has a system that seems to work pretty well. It's called "DeCapo Club." It is a chart Mon. Tues. Wed. ect. that has all the Suzuki books 1-8 on it. For example: Sunday is Twinkle Variation A, Monday is Variation B ect. and it goes all the way to the Veracini Sonata at the end of Book 8. I don't know if I descibed in a way that is easy to understand, but you can always e-mail me!
From Natasha Marsalli
Posted on July 9, 2005 at 10:12 PM
Yes, Sydney, I have done a similar review system. I also used to do a rep/review class once a week...and fervently hated it! Most of my difficulty comes from not being taught very well when I was younger. I'm SO glad that now I have a superb teacher!

This entry has been archived and is no longer accepting comments.

Music Giveaway

Mark O'Connor Mark O'Connor's method books -- released this week -- teach students using many styles of American music. Enter to win a set of the books this week, on Violinist.com. Photo: Deanna Rose

Search

About Natasha

Natasha Marsalli is from Cleveland, Ohio. Biography

E-mail to Natasha Marsalli

RSS Subscribe in a reader

Blog Archive

2009: Jul.

2008: Jun. May Apr. Mar.

2007: Nov. Jun. May Apr. Mar. Feb. Jan.

2006: Nov. Oct. Jun. May Apr. Mar. Feb. Jan.

2005: Dec. Nov. Oct. Sep. Aug. Jul. Feb.