July 18, 2004 at 3:15 AM

Lately I have been very conscious of my bow arm/hold/changes. It seems that in my awareness of the movements I use, they have become jagged, or confused. I realized, for instance, that my wrist is not as flexible as I thought. I hardly move my fingers/hand at all when I change bow at the frog. I use my arm, however, my shoulder stays down. My fingers get used when I do fast bows closer to the middle or tip. The faster the bow, the more flexible I am. But my core bow change seems stiff. But it works? And my shoulder isn't stiff or moving...so I don't know. When I try to loosen it up, everything gets clunky and uncomfortable. I wonder if I'm doing a bad thing by trying to analyze it all. My playing has gotten worse because I can't stop noticing how everything is moving. GRR. The result of not having a teacher at the moment, I suppose. Anyhow. I'm sure that is all very interesting....
I think I'm a hopeless music dork. Oh, and I've been reading about a book a day. Those NYT bestsellers that you get at the supermarket. I'm hopeless!
-Jennifer

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