July 18, 2005 at 10:12 AM

Ahh, what a pain. I should be practicing now but im in town waiting while my car is being fixed. Im so excited about learning Paganinis Moto Perpetuo, I have the whole thing memorised, now I just need to implant it solidly into my muscle memory so that I can play it at any speed. At the moment I can play it at 150+ bpm up to the repeat, but I havent worked the rest up to that speed yet. My teachers advice has worked a treat - play it with a metronome and different speeds, in the same part of the bow that you would use up to tempo. I cant wait to play this peice in public. I can just imagine the devillish facial expressions that you could pull while playing this, haha. I dont know what it is about this piece, it brings me so much joy to play. I have always loved the sound of semiquavers and it seems that this is my ideal piece seen as it contains about 5 minuites of them! Big smile 8-D

From Rick Basil
Posted on July 19, 2005 at 2:11 PM

John, you have an interesting left hand setup their!!

From John Lanceley
Posted on July 19, 2005 at 6:40 PM

Haha yes! It solves the problem of those stupid damn position changes!

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