September 15, 2003 at 3:03 PM

I played the second movement of vivaldi's winter yesterday, a much easier scale pattern than spring. I love playing vivaldi and bach and so much, I could play only baroque stuff the rest of my life and be happy.

I also started to play some of the gavotte from the 3rd lute suite, it sounds so good on violin and I cant wait to record that and overdub the cello part for the bass notes, that will sound so cool.

The bach b min and d min sarabandes are now both second nature by now, I have completely memorized every note. I think Ill start on the chaconne and 1st movement of the e maj, that and more vivaldi, maybe summer which is my favorite, I think im ready for some of the faster movements now, this will be exciting for me to finally play the third movement of summer, certainly one of my favorite pieces of music ever, exploding with genius.

I never thought I would make this much progress in one year, last year this time I played with really scratchy bowings, the bow would bounce unintentionally and I had no clue about playing in tune or where the notes were. Its so rewarding to be able to play my feelings (finally). There have been so may times I have said Ill never be able to play in tune and kept on playing anyways.

Soon I will be distributing OOP recordings: soon I will send a cd to my friend Stephen Redrobe full of rare violin mp3s by kogan, shumsky, rabin, grumiaux, szeryng and more. We will put them up online for everyone to download, it makes me feel good about distributing rare and out of print recordings that you cant get anywhere especially when students and teachers benifit from this.

Im also craving more instruments Im dying for a second violin, I love the dark tone of my paganini delgesu copy but what I really want is a strad type sweet tone that isnt as loud. Im buried in debt right now in time Ill get there. I alo am craving a cello, recording devices, a digital piano and a drumset, its strating to really eat away at me because I can not do the musical things I want to. Ahh the aggrivation, maybe Ill start working 2 jobs again soon although I usually wait until winter when it is too cold to practice.

One thing is that the violin can take all your time and money and make you obsessed. I practiced as much as I could in the summer, now the fall is coming and I will likely practice less and spend more time going out with friends and having fun. Practicing so much helped alot but I need to relax and have fun this fall, this is also the week the students move into the dorms at osu and that means there will be tons of young girls looking for someone to date so I will likely be spending a great deal of time looking for someone fun to date and possibly marry one day, Im 35 and Im running out of time before I can have children, the clock is ticking wildly but I have to remain patient, we will see what happens...

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