Sept 25 - 30

Monday - I did a book 1 review! Gavotte was a mess but I did ok for the rest!

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Feb 13 - 25

Monday - AM: Book 2 Minuet for 10 minutes. PM: Book 3 Minuet for 10 min

Tuesday - Sat - I practiced but didn't record things. 

Tuesday - didn't practice yesterday (we were skiing)

Feb 6 - 11

Monday - It's been a while since my last post. I had a baby on 31 May 2022 and haven't done much practicing since. A little, but it's hit and miss. Today I times myself and was shooting to get in 15 minutes but I was able to do a solid 30 minutes! I only worked on the last song in Book 2- Minuet. I'm setting a goal to practice every day this week. Fingers crossed.

Tuesday - Just did Minuet slow practice one time at 9:30 pm. Something is better than nothing though!

Wednesday - 11AM - 15 minutes of slow practice Minuet, I think I have it all down except for a new bowings

Thursday - praciticed 25 minutes, yay - did slow practice Minuet 2x, slow practice Book 2 review (at .75 playback speed) through Gavotte MIgnon

Friday - 20 minutes of review today

Saturday - Started Minuet in Book 3! I made good progress

Sunday Sight-reading

Sophi and Natalie are on day 105 of their practicing streak as of today. I am on day 8. Today for my sightreading I did Baptism and My Own Sacred Grove. I think I'll order the sheet music for My Own Sacred Grove. I found the first page online (right notes, wrong lyrics), and then just played the rest by ear. 

Two Grenadiers

 I started working on The Two Grenadiers last week. Here's two takes of my playing. I kept messing up, here's one of me messing up on like my 6th take, and on this last one I called it good for tonight... I didn't mess up too much in that one. Still need to work on tone and clarity and getting deep in the strings. Those things will come as I practice. I'm glad that I like practicing, it's fun. 

Graduated Book 1

I graduated Book 1 today, yay, I took like a month trying to get Gavotte really good, and I tried to pass it off twice and she told me to keep working on spacatto, and it improved, but the slurs need a little more work, you're almost there - but today she said it's good and she'll count it. There is still room for more improvement on making my slurs clear as I'm switching strings, but she said not to worry cause it will come as there will be lots of pieces that will help those techniques in book 2, so it's ok. So yay, I'll try to record myself playing the songs and we'll see if I improved from my before take - 

Before Take - March 15th

Dec 14 - 19

Monday - lessons, got some great pointers on Bouree, keep bow wrist straight when up at the frog, practice scales at the frog to get used to that position and to help me make a better sound there. Also going to try and work more on vibrato this week. 

Tuesday - 
Wednesday - lots of review from 11pm to 12am, waiting up for Corey to finish work. I love the violin, I am excited for when I sound better! I sent a polo of me playing to Nicole, her kids play the fiddle, they said I have improved 😁
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Nov 29 - Dec 12

Sunday - Practiced the simplified Hymns "The Spirit of God", also "Jesus the Very Thought of Thee" by ear

Saturday - I'm checking in and see that I didn't record anything this week, sorry to myself. I did practice for over 90 minutes today - 60 minutes with Sophi, 25 with Natalie, and more on my own

Monday - Girls had lessons over zoom. Tonight I worked on Bouree

Tuesday - 9 pm - More Bouree and other review, played to calm myself down before bed. It helped. 
Wednesday - 10 am - Bouree bowing, I think I have it down! And I can tell that my sound is improving. 
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Nov 23 - 28

Monday - traveling all day, left hotel at 6am, flight at 8, 5+ hour flight, 6 hour layover in LAX until 9pm CA time, in Las Vegas and to bed

Tuesday - drive home, left Vegas at 11, home at 6pm
Wednesday - good review of all songs, and started listening to Bouree on repeat
Thursday - Happy Thanksgiving! Didn't get to any practicing today
Friday - nothing :(
Saturday - practiced for 20 minutes with Natalie and an hour with Sophi! Go Soph! She was inspired after after Lily practiced for 90 minutes. I love the violin and I want to play better than I currently do, I want to practice everyday. 

Nov 2 - 21

Nov 2 - 7 - Monday S and N had lessons. I just did a little bit of Mussette on Monday, other than that I didn't do a lot or do deep this week. Practiced with Sophi on Saturday, Minuets

Nov 9 - 14 - getting ready for Hawaii, left on the 11 for Las Vegas, early flight on Nov 12

Nov 16 - 21 - Didn't practice as much as I would have liked, but did do some, I love the violin and look forward to being able to play well someday! Until then, practice practice.

Oct 26 - 31

Monday - lessons for S&N, C scale and slow Waltz for me

Tuesday - practiced with Sophi and Natalie - sight reading, and then Sophi and I did scales, happy farmer, and started gavotte, and Natalie and I practiced Allegretto and Andantino. Later I did a little bit of Waltz
Wednesday - nothing :( busy cleaning and reogranizing bedrooms most of the day, I didn't follow through with the girls. 
Thurs - Sat - didn't record it and cant's remember

Oct 19 - 24

 Monday - I practiced Waltz for almost an hour and then went for my own lesson and it was so fun, yay, I like violin. During the next month, I'm going to work on setting the bow on Hunters Chorus, on doing "sticky slurs" on Gavotte and Hunter's Chorus, and work on vibrato on the Minuets, Chorus, and Waltz. Also, getting deeper into the string but while using the whole bow, go deep from the elbow but at the same time being aware that the shoulder, elbow, and wrist all work together. Also going to work on some Schradeick techniques on A string - 

It was really fun, I liked having a whole hour to go deep playing, deeper than I usually had with the 5 min jump in lessons I had before. I playing violin!

Tuesday - waltz
Wednesday - nothing
Thursday - review with Natalie and Sophi, Waltz
Friday - Waltz, review with Natalie, tried to keep tone even/constant through the whole length of the bow as we did Allegretto
Saturday - C scale and arpeggios, Waltz, review with S, very slow on Minuet 3, Gavotte 1500 part, N didn't practice

Oct 12 - 17

Monday - scales with playlist, lessons today, From 8-9 tonight, I did scales and arpeggios with my violin playlist, then a review of everything, had to try a few times with Mussette and Gavotte. Gavotte is killing me! I might record a little video recital anyway even though I can't do that one, I will keep trying, but I also want to feel like I can officially move on from Book 1

Tuesday - Musette and Gavotte
Wednesday - review with Sophi
Thursday - good practice and review with Sophi and Natalie
Friday - review
Saturday - lots of Waltz slow practice, it was really fun!

Oct 5 - 10

 Monday - Review with girls, scales, sight reading

Tuesday - Review all, Musette
Wednesday - Sophi yes, N no
Thursday - Minuet 3 with Sophi, Gavotte, N no practice
Friday - Musette, Gavotte, Waltz
Saturday -

Sept 29 - Oct 3

Monday - girls lesson, I'm going to take a full lesson for myself once a month

Tuesday - review with girls, lots of mussette, slow Gavotte for 20 minutes, Sophi and I working on the 1500x part from Gavotte 15 x super slow each day

Wednesday - just updating the blog here today, sorry I missed the past two weeks. I have been practicing, not as much as I'd like, but doing ok considering. I'm taking a full lesson on Oct 12, working to have each piece polished the best I can by then, we'll see if I get to Waltz

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Sep 7 - 12

 Monday - nothing, fun outing with the kids though

Tuesday - review with Sophi
Wednesday - review with Natalie
Thursday - nothing
Friday - with girls
Saturday - lots of practice today, it was good, lessons on Monday should go well

Aug 31 - Sep 5

Monday - Lessons. I didn't listen to Sophi's cause Corey and I were talking to Ethan on hangouts, Came in for the end of Natalie's lesson, I passed off Long long ago and had the bowing right, yay, cool. Amy taught me C scale and introduced 3rd position, fun stuff
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Aug 24 - 29

Monday - violin playlist
Tuesday - Book 1 review by myself while kids were at school
Wednesday - review with N&S, N finished practicing, Sophi started but didn't finish.
Thursday - Worked on Perpetual motion and minuets with Sophi, Natalie perpetual motion too, Book 2 songs for me, worked on bowing on Long long ago book 2
Friday - mostly helped the girls today
Saturday - I think I've got the bowing down for Long Long ago in book 2. We have a lesson on Monday, our first in 4 weeks, so it will be nice. We're going to start going every Monday again.

Aug 17 - 22

Monday - nothing
Tuesday - violin playlist, g scale
Wednesday - 20 min review of Happy Farmer through Hunters' Chorus
Thursday - violin playlist, practiced vibratto
Friday - nothing
Saturday - Got in over an hour practicing today - did my violin playlist, review with Natalie of Book 1, then helped her on Perpetual motion and Allegretto, Helping Soph on Happy Farmer, and Allegretto through Hunters Chorus, still can't do Gavotte fast enough

Aug 10 - 15

Monday - left for Bear Lake today - I'm taking my violin and hope i can practice up there in the hotel
Tuesday - nothing
Wednesday - nothing
Thursday - back home, didn't practice at Bear Lake
Friday - review with S and N
Saturday - little bit of Mussette and Gavotte