November 14, 2004 at 6:40 PM

Fantastic practice today. Intonation was really good and seemed easy.

My left hand really freed up today. Seemed to fall naturally into place. After a 15 minute warm up my reach was great, felt comfortable. Only coming down to the G string in an easy piece that I found I had slipped a little, which led to having to tense to hit that low A.

I felt so much more loose today that I tried the beginner vibrato lesson on Vmasterclass.com ok I am along way off being ready for this, but it was a huge mental leap for me. I had got into my head that vibrato was going to be beyond me. Just by trying this really slowly with each finger and achieving the effect I am now sure I will master it in good time.

Really glowing today, the improvement in 1 week is astounding. I know the hard times are ahead, my teacher will probably take me along way back this week but somehow I am not so scared of not being able to get where I want to be now. Great day.