March 26, 2005 at 1:27 PM

I greatly enjoy practice. I literally practice every day when I first wake up, before going to work and at night before going to sleep.

Fortunately, my wife is working on her MBA so her nights are pretty much taken up with school work and studying. Which might make her resent my practice time a bit.

With the current situation, she appreciates that I've found something to do as she needs to concentrate.

I practice in the method book that my instructor teaches in. The ABC's the Violin. It seems to be a pretty good book and I've enjoyed working through it. I usually begin with long bows and parking the bow. I end with tuning my violin.

I find it a little difficult to focus on the fingering excercises like C# to D over and over again. And had whole rests. I can more really dive into riffs that sould like music, but I perserve. Week by week I learn a little more. Usually about 2 or 3 lessin in the book. I'm currently on lesson 13, walking the fingers.