Big Changes

July 2, 2008 at 7:39 PM

All I have to say is...WOW!!! I'm much busier than I expected to be this summer. For the most part my summer started out slow. I did not get up until noon, practiced, did some homework here and there, ate with my roommate, hung out with people and watched a tone of movies. The last two weeks has been crazy. I was working 8 hours almost everyday, getting up at 6am and going to bed around 12am. I had rehearsals for Pippin, homework for 2 classes and I needed to practice. On one day I spend my entire day down in Cedar Falls getting my bow rehaired and proceded to have a 3 hour lesson with Fredrick Halgedahl

This was an amazing lesson. We talked about what I hope to accomplish this summer and my background with the violin. I played some for him so he could get an idea of were I was at. He said that I presented myself as very disciplined but perhaps to rigid in my playing as far as interpretation and choices goes. So, we're aiming for freedome this summer my veritable cage. We're working on changing my bow-grip...indeed my entire bowing technique. In the end it should be more relaxed, my wrist looser, and my elbow a little higher. We also changed the grip itself to be more "in the hand" as it were. I hope this will take no longer than a couple of weeks to settle in. Most of my practice is to set this new bow grip so I haven't played much of my music at all. I'm also finally going through all of the major and minor scales with their arpeggios. I've played lots of scales before, but hardly ever the arpeggios and never sytematically. We're also planning to work on excerpts for regional orchestra auditions as well as my Luther College Symphony Orchestra excerpts. And my repetoire.

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