Accepting My Shortfalls

August 30, 2006 at 7:26 AM

The concert over the weekend went well apparently, despite a few non-noticeable mistakes on my part.

The violin exam however is coming next week. There are a certain things I cannot yet do:

- Perfect intonation on my 3-octave sacles (those beginning from E flat and above)
- Perfect intonation on double-stop scales
- Cannot distinguish a Perfect and a Plagal cadence.
- I can't even tune my own violin properly!

Well, apart from the above, I think I should do OK with the rest. I'll just have to accept my shortfalls, hoping I will pass this exam, and strive to nail them before the Grade 8 exam next year.

From Richard Hellinger
Posted on August 30, 2006 at 12:43 PM

oh I hate double stop scales. I read in the buisness weekly about the meadowmount school, they said something about a cello has to play them with the side of their thumb?

From William Yap
Posted on August 31, 2006 at 3:44 AM

I don't play the cello but I have seen cellists using their thumb to play double-stops and chords, like the guitarists.

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