Practice has been good again this week. I think there is more incentive to practice when your pieces are close to completion because they generally sound really good, and so are more enjoyable to play. Having said that, I think I have been neglecting the Superstudies pieces a little.
One thing I have found is that when I don't think I can play because it will be to loud, I can play the pieces pizzicato style. It's not ideal, no, because I miss out on the bowing, but I can still practice the left-hand fingering, which certainly must be better than no practice at all.
Today I was in Room Three. Normally the room assigned to Laura is a small room downstairs. There was some mucking about this week and Laura ended up in Room Three, which was big and airy and even had its own piano.
Laura is full of surprises. Today she had written up some music gleaned from YouTube. It was one of the Greek songs I had mentioned to her (and yes, I am embarrassed to say the name slips my mind at this time). It sounded really cool when Laura played it. It's not difficult to learn but it will have to be transposed (to G Major I imagine) since I don't know F Major on the violin yet. Laura, thank-you for taking the time to do that. I really appreciate it.
It was St Patricks Day yesterday, and some of it must have rubbed off on me because today I passed Raggle Taggle Hippie. Huzzah. Again I had to play it with Laura accompanying on the piano and it was much better. I think this was partly due to having practiced with the recording of her accompaniment from last week. Laura says I should be proud of myself because it sounds really good is a big improvement even from a few weeks ago,
The other two songs are pretty close to being finished too. Hopefully the practice I had previously allocated to Raggle Taggle Hippie can be allotted to these songs and they will be good to go next week. I need to practice my articulation with the runs of notes in Hornpipe and play into the string a little more for Fiddler Fancy.
The Superstudies songs are going good too. They need a little more time, and they are now joined by Vanilla Ice-Cream. Also this week I am starting on some of the scales and exercises Sirisha has been doing (I think). There are things like two octaves of G Major with different bowing techniques and assorted other exercises. Like I've said before, I enjoy playing the scales and exercises as much as I enjoy the set pieces. I hope I can get plenty of good practice time in this week.
Sirisha wasn't in this week. Probably next week.
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