Monthly Archives: September 2016
A Pass on Seitz
Somehow, three months after starting it, I managed to play through the Seitz from memory for Teacher in Tuesday’s lesson, and she declared it passed. I had to be honest, of course, and told her that particular play-through was the second time ever I’d accomplished the big doubled sixteenth note section of the piece without […]
Sight Reading G Major
Tuesday’s lesson brought a new etude from Wolfhart – there are sixty etudes in this book, and two years in I’m now on number three. They are lovely sets that Teacher uses to practice sight reading and bowing – each etude can be played with many bowing variations. The first two were in C-Major, so […]
Seitz Report
It’s interesting to me that on certain days certain sections of my current Seitz piece – movement three of the second concerto – seem harder than others. It’s also interesting to drill down on what hard means. There’s playing the notes, there’s memorization, and there’s musicality. There’s also technique independent of what I need to […]
Back to Boccherini
I’ve come a long way since the end of Book Two, but I basically left the Boccherini Minuet, the book’s finale, in the dust sometime in the middle of Book Three. For whatever reason I haven’t been as motivated to keep it active as I have with some of the other Suzuki pieces. Because I […]
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