The blessings from Buddha's Birthday Festival must have paid off because even with the three days I missed out on practice I still managed to earn three, count them ... three, stickers. I could not stay for the second half of the double lesson with Sirisha because I needed to be home as early as possible for teacher interviews with the Szechuan Prince.
The lesson started off poorly. A bouncy bow meant another week on the G melodic minor slurring exercise. I know the cure for bouncy bow so I expect at least one sticker next week.
The A melodic minor scale was in tune so now that I am comfortable with that I expect to be able to tick off at least one of those scale exercises for next week.
The KISS exercise passed. I used plenty of bow and I was in tune so the sticker was mine. Of course this means I have a new exercise so I am curious to see how that plays out.
The second sticker was for Toffee Nut Fudge Cake. I finally nailed the accents and staccato and everything else well enough to earn the pass. It sounded pretty good. There is still Rum-Bah Ba left to do in the Superstudies book. I am glad Laura suggested that book when I bught Patience.
Before I went any further Laura brought out the next piece: Air In G, by Bach. OMG. Not Air On G. But still by Bach. This is my first official Bach piece. Huzzah! So not, it's not the famous Air On A G String from Suite For Orchestra Number 3. That is at least Grade 5 and mroe likely 6 or 7 as I understand it so it's a little way away yet :) However, this is Bach, and it is pretty, and I will learn to play it.
After this I had time for Fiddler's Fancy. And it was fancy. Sticker fancy. I played it very well. Then Laura wanted to accompany me, but she music for a different key. Can I play it one string down? I would not be CDCCD4U if I could not. I knew that I could do it and I played it passably well considering it was such short notice.
That was it for this week. It was time to go. I hope Sirisha had as much stickery success for her lesson.
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