September 30, 2003 at 6:02 PM

Last weekend I played through half of the first page of the Chaconne, it was incredibly rewarding to produce those sacred tones with my hand. It is already sounding like music because the chords in the d min sarabande are very similar so the chords seemed familiar to me. I cant explain the feelings that come over me when I hear this music and the rewards of learning to play these works by myself.

Yesterday I ordered a violin instructional cd called Mimi Zweig's Approach to Violin and Viola Teaching. It is a cd full of violin instruction by a grad of Indiana U, where Joe Gingold used to teach. Im looking forward to using it soon and learning from it. I especially need help with my spiccato and I think this will help. Even Josh Bell was quoted as saying Mimi Zweig's course is a powerful and wide-ranging learning tool. I encourage string students and teachers to immerse themselves in it. I am convinced that the great wealth of knowledge she offers will be as beneficial and inspiring to you as it was to me in those important early years of my violin study.

Over the weekend I went to the library because I was craving new sheet music to devour. In addition to the some films I checked out on video, I found scores for the Bruch Concerto 1, Mozart's Eline Klein Nachtmusic, Mozart Concerto 4, and Mendelssohn and Brahms Concertos. It has been a goal of mine to lern the best parts from some of the more popular violin pieces like this. Im sure Ill have fun learning them sometime this week while I watch "The Hit" "The Score" and "Theres Something About Mary". I like to have the tv on when I practice because I live alone and it adds ambience to the room, seems to be better than silence for some reason and if it works, use it I figure.

My guitar desires also seem to be reappearing, there are guitar pieces by Ralph Towner and Bill Connors I wish to arrange for violin and guitar and its starting to make me want to play them so bad I won't be able to go much onger without working on them in addition to all the straight violin stuff Im doing.

Also met someone from maestronet who is buying an $18,000 violin, I offered to let him try mine and me his so that will be fun to play a violin that nice, Im excited about that.

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September 30, 2003 at 6:02 PM

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