Violin and yeah...violin

February 18, 2006 at 7:29 AM

Everything was going great last semester when it came to my violin. I was enjoying playing and making vast improvements. My tone was gorgeous, full and huge. My fingers were gliding over the figerboard with great speed and accuracy. Then comes Christmas Break and J-term. They started out fine, I was still practicing everyday but then the week after Christmas I didn't practice and just figured I would take a nice week off. 5 weeks went by and then I realized that I had been practicing very little, less than a hour a day average compared to my usual 3-4 hours a day first semester. I had my first lesson of the semester last week and I recieved wonderful news or at least indications, my teacher basically said that I could pursue a Violin Performance degree in grad school. She is also allowing to me to play much more difficult pieces than I thought I would be playing. However, I just don't feel like playing. I'm unhappy with violin, I mean, I still love violin but I just can't get serious about practice. I have everything going for me violinistically speaking so why am I not happy?

Oh yes, I also got an email back from Dr. Thomson regarding lessons this summer and he said that he had room to take me on as a student. That made be pretty happy but even after news like that, well, you got story above.

From Carley Anderson
Posted on February 18, 2006 at 2:28 PM

I know JUST what you're feeling like. Because I'm feeling the same way. My mind still loves violin passionately...but my body just DOESN'T want to practice. Hmm...

From Jonathan Frohnen
Posted on February 18, 2006 at 4:18 PM

John Thomson is great...see if he will teach you some solo de Beriot :-)

From Danielle Gauthier
Posted on February 18, 2006 at 5:21 PM

I think it's winter...for me at least, there's just something in me that won't practice during winter unless it's during a blizzard.

From Terez Mertes
Posted on February 19, 2006 at 2:12 AM

Most creative and artistic endeavors have an ebb and flow. It's just hard to sustain 100% passion and skill for a long period. I'm just guessing here, but I'm inclined to think this is a phase and quite possibly, six months from now, you'll have the opposite problem: your motivation will have you on fire, but you'll start having annoying technical problems that aren't bothering you right now, or else you'll be suffering from a lack of time (which, of course, will set you on fire with motivation).

Bad news: it's always something. Good news: it's all a cycle and the highs and lows never stick around forever.

Good luck!

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