During the week, the teacher sent me an image of the open string notes on the treble staff and another image I could use to make flash cards of the individual notes. I have never used flash cards for my own study. After having tried them for the musical notes I must say they were quite effective. I also spent time memorising "The Golden Harp" (as it is 12 bars long and involved repetition it was not hard to do). I practised my bow hold on pencils and chopsticks. I did find some tutorials on youtube that my teacher said were suitable to use for learning how to hold the bow.
The second lesson started with me playing "The Golden Harp". There were good points and bad points :) I knew the piece very well but played it too quickly, and at times my pizzicato technique was not so good. After some more practice, I moved on to two new pieces. The first is called "The River Melody", composed by the teacher, and includes an accompaniment. The student part is entirely pizzicato, and sounds fine on its own, but when she played the accompaniment it sounded so much richer. This was the first time I had heard the teacher play and I loved the tone of her violin. For now I can only imagine how it would sound to hear her play something like Vivaldi's "Summer" (3rd movement AKA Storm). The second piece is called "The Salsa Song" and is entirely single-note pizzicato. The focus here is on the introduction of quavers, or as I was shown today "monkeys". Crotchet is "cow". It serves the same purpose as ta and ti-ti but more humorous. The last thing I was taught today was how to use the bow. This was quite exciting. I learned the one way to bow correctly, and the four or five ways to do it incorrectly.
This week I have plenty of homework and I love it.
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