October 18, 2005 at 3:45 AM

This past week I have managed to get in a lot more practicing. It feels really good! I have a big violin exam coming up in January so I'm excited to be getting caught up and ahead in my practicing for that. I've been more focused on technique (there is a very large technical requirement for the exam) and been dilligently working through all the scales in the book and double stops etc. Fingering patterns for some of things, mainly chromatic scales are really frustrating me but my teacher helped me get 3 different patterns worked out that can be applied to a "cycle" of them. It's helping lots.

One thing that's really nice to have back is the CBC's regular programming! There was a lockout that lasted around 8 weeks and I was really missing they're programming. The stuff that was replacing CBC's usual programs was all of the really popular pieces and I was getting really bored of hearing 100% classical that was all the famous stuff. CBC has so much variety, jazz, classical, new music and popular and unpopular in each of the genres, plus there's announcers, live performances, artist interviews and such. So YAY to the CBC being back!

I'm finally getting a bit more time to practice piano these days. I've been working on some Bach, Haydn and Debussy again. It feels good to play again.The past month has been fairly sparse in time spent at the keyboard so it really does feel good to get back to it. I'll be starting lessons again in November too!!

I'm truly in love with Ysaye's 4th sonata. I don't know if my teacher will let me but maybe after my exam in January I can learn it! *crosses fingers* It would be something a little different from unaccompanied Bach and challenge me in different ways. I did the Ysaye sonata No.2 before but I was not nearly as competent or comfortable with the violin and my technique as I am now so it would be valueable for me to do one of those sonatas again.

And that's my short and sweet blog entry for today.

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October 18, 2005 at 3:45 AM

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