The Last 2 Weeks

July 10, 2008 at 2:43 AM

Chamber music, even when it's being prepared for a wedding, is fun. My friends and I are getting ready to play for a wedding and this Friday we are playing for the bride, groom and the groom's mother. I'm excited to play for them actually. We're just going to play basic music suitable for a wedding. At our rehearsal tonight, on a whim, we decided to play Hoe-Down. It was a blast and I sucked at it unfortunately. I'm so completely excited to have a string quartet this coming year! I'm also excited that I have a lesson again tomorrow. The bow grip/bowing technique change is going well and I've definately developed a greater flexability in my wrist. It's still not fully there, but it's close and I love it. I think I actually sound better and I don't have to worry about my right hand as much. It's become much more of an extension of my arm.

Because of changing the bowing stuff, I haven't been able to practice as much repetoire. I've been mostly focussing on excperts. Don Juan is freaking hard to play. My main focus though has been on Sheherazade, for my college orchestra auditions. I just really want to be in the first violin section and in the chamber orchestra. I'm so tired of being thought of as an ok player. I have the potential to be good...at least I think I do and so does my teacher, past and present. I mean, my biggest problem is rhythm, but that has never been a huge part of my musical training and I used to learn rhythms by my teacher dictating them to me or just getting them to be approximate. My brain also really fails to remember that there is a differce between a C# on the violin and C# on the piano. My intonation with piano is often not of the greatest quality. It's not because I don't know it or hear it but because I just don't have a ton of experience playing with a piano. I need to work on that...a lot.

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