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August 5, 2005 at 9:54 PM

Ive been practing my vibrato alot lately, Ive really been rethinking everything all over again when I stumbled on an essay written by Steve Redrobe discussing an analysis of erick friedman's style. He said Erick mostly used hand or wrist vibrato mostly and that arm vibrato is basically unpredictable. Thats when everything started to really click for me. I dont have it down still but Im definately getting alot better at it and with a little more practice I think I can get it.

I finally finished memorizing the Bach g min adagio, not bad for someone who has been playing violin less than 3 years and no teacher. I think Ill do some of the Bach e maj sonata next. Regarding my return to Bach and the absence of jazz, Bach IS jazz if you consider all the accidentals, key changes, altered chords and everything else that he did.

New dvds > I want to thank v.com member ole bull for offering the josefowitz/vieuxtemps 5 dvd and the shaham/sibelius dvd, really amazing performances there. I never thought I would ever see anyone play the Vieuxtemps and to see Shaham playing the Sibelius is so friggin intense I can barely stand it.

Whats the best song ive heard lately? acutally it was a ford commercial featuring words that mean nothing like la la la yeah yeah yeah

Regarding daisy duke, I think Shania Twain would have been a better choice: shes a better singer, has brown hair and more impartanly is alot cuter.

Enough for now, Im off to start on some of the bach e maj

cheers
scott (muggle violinist)
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Scott,

I always tell new violinists that thry MUST get a teacher. How did you learn to teach yourself so well that you are playing unaccompanied Bach in less than three years?

Re Bach as jazz: Do you like the way Jacques Louissier plays Bach? Keeith Jarrett is a classical and jazz musician. He plays Bach as classical music and I love the way he does it. I recently heard him play Handel and I love that, too.

Ive never heard Jacques Louissier, as for keith jarrett, he is a good jazz pianist if you dont mind the humming which I do, I didnt know he play classical but Ive never heard him play classical. I find mc coy tyner and bill evans alot more appealing than keith jarrett, both were originally classical tranined.
I'm not trying to be rude or anything, but I learned on arm vibrato and it really "clicked" for me. I guess mainly, blanket statements aren't the best for violin.
what ever works, use that so far nothing is working for me though but I still keep on trying

steve's point is that arm vibrato is not controllable but maybe it is, I dont know