August 15, 2005 at 11:27 PM

Today I practiced the development section in the Vieuxtemps, man that octaves bit is hard. This is gonna take ages to master. Grrr!!! Other than that, its ok. Its coming, sloowly but surely. Another 5 years and it'll be at performance standard lol
Also practiced Caprice 17 which seems easy in comparison, the vieuxtemps has definately helped with the fingered octaves. It has been fairly humid today, and while practicing the trill section in the cadenza, where you have to squash your fingers right up, my second finger was rubbing painfully against my first finger, just above the nail where the skin is really thin. I ended up putting a bit of sellotape on my skin just where the nail finishes, to ease the friction. Jeez, the things we violinists have to go through. Also, my car stopped working today. It started, then died. About 5 times. at least I got some exercise and walked to where I was going. Walking sucks though!!

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