Violin lesson #73

I was reasonably happy with practice this week.I kept the focus mostly on scales and exercises and still made time for the pieces. And there was even time for the blues. It's not my usual genre of music but I did learn a few things from "Fiddlerman". All in all it was good fun.

There was one day this week where I had a "cranky old man" moment and went to the park to play violin. One of the songs I played was Hornpipe, which was passed by Laura with reservations. After I had finished my rendition I looked around and noticed an older gentleman some distance away. He saw me looking at him and applauded. That made my day.

There was no Sirisha today, not even a late one. We got straight into it. I passed my G minor arpeggio and was rewarded with the F Major scale and F Major arpeggio. Laura said my first attempt at the F Major scale was pretty good. I put that down to a) listening to her instructions, and b) diligence with the existing scales.My sliding exercise is going really well so fingers crossed and it will pass next week, and I made good progress and got very good feedback for my bow stroke exercise.

There was time enough to play through the Telemann Minuet. Laura says that when I play the music and focus on the technical issues I can sound mechanical, but when I put that to the back of mind and just play the music it sounds great. I am happy to be making good progress with this piece. Laura gave me some tips about how to play certain parts of it so I will take that on board with my practice this week. I won't be neglecting the rest of my pieces either ... and who knows, there may be more time for blues =)