June 9, 2005 at 7:51 PM

I have been playing scales for 20 min everyday now, part of that time includes shifting and spiccato. The music I used for practicing spicato is Brahms Scherzo, Beethoven Rondo from the concerto, The first minute of mozart 4 and now that I figured out Paganini 17 out, Im starting to work on that too. Progess is slow and I do alot of expermienting but its alot of fun especially when I improvise scales. Spiccato is so hard for me to control but I have to say thanks to Buri (the John Madden of violin) for all the advice.

Bach 1 (d min sarabande) I never play much anymore because I know it really well. Bach 2 (b min sarabande) I play every day, Bach 3 (g min adagio) is coming along ok, I still have a long way to go. Im still trying to finish it by the end of the year and I think I can get it done.

I finally listened to James Ehnes Wieniawski Sarasate cd, it has some awesome playing and I think the sound of the production is improving. I also listened to the Dohnanyi concerto 2 cd, the first thing I noticed was it is on a different label, chados. The tone on that cd is 100% better than any other cd I have heard by him. I hope he will get signed by a great label soon. I think he is the greatest violinist since rabin but I didnt like the sound on most of his cds, the recordings just didnt do justice to his tone. BTW I have an extra Dohnanyi cd that is unopened, I accidentally ordered 2 so if anyone wants to buy it click on my name and send me an email.

Monday I took my fiddle to the blues jam and played the middle part of Dance of Maya by Mahavishnu, that was alot of fun playing fiddle with my friends band. Yesterday was really fun too, I recently met a pianist that graduated from The Berkley School of Music. If you know anything about jazz, you know it is the best school in the world to study jazz. Some of my all time favorite jazz musicians studied there: Joe Lovano, AlDiMeola, Steve Hunt, Matt Garrison John Scofield to name a few. Anyways I had my piano fried come over and even though it was really humid, we spent 3 hours discussing jazz harmony and I persuaded him to spell every chord for 3 jazz tunes I have wanted to work out for a really long time: Naima by John Coltrane, and the classic statdards "There Will Never Be ANother You" and "Misty". I was so happy, to finally have answers to questions I have been trying to get for like 15 years, all revealed in a few hours.

Tonight Ill be making my famous soup, I call it Brahms' broccoli soup, all you do is steam some broccoli and then mix it in with a can of chicken noodle soup and some boiled chicken. Hmm lets see what else I can come up with beethoven burger, chausson chili, mozart meatballs, paganini pizza, ok now Im just getting silly.

cheers
scott (muggle violinist)
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