April 2, 2005 at 1:14 PM

Lesson this week...

So I went to practice this week. It went pretty well. I got to face the metronome, but it didn't totally hose me like last time.

I got work on some finer points of the bow and tried to better my tone. I Also got to work on ear training a bit. I still feel like I'm lost in the woods a bit when comes to ear training.

I picked up a small key board to help me visualize the intervals between notes and I'm going to ask my wife to play a note while I guess what it is.

I brought my Bird's Eye Maple violin to the lesson as my Romanov was still in the shop. My music teacher was a bit unsettled by it, the grain of the wood reminded her of bugs. I did pick up the Romanov after the lesson.

I finally got to play a bit with guy at work with his "resonator guitar". He basicly followed the songs I played and inserted cords. At this point my repetoire consists of:

Mary Had a Little Lamb
Hot Cross Buns
Go Tell Aunt Rhodie
Ode to Joy
King of the Faires (only the 1st 4 measures)

It was fun though and gave me a better understanding of the concepts of Rhithym vs. Melody etc...

I put some new dominants on my Czech beater/travel violin. They seem to fall out of tune quite a bit. I'm not sure if its the strings or peg slippage at this point.

That's it for now.

Jason

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