Yay-ness

jon laa wrote on January 29th, 2009, 1:10 am

First violin lesson in three years, I think. The last time I had a lesson was probably late 2005.

Lesson was refreshing. I am glad there are still morsels of playing left. I can barely deal with a half-an-octave-scale the other day but I ended up walking away from class with three two-octave scales to work through, sixty times each - daily. I suppose that will fix my pitching, if my sense of pitching is actually accurate. Major scales only though, I can’t wait for minor. It will be good if we can work on three scales every week, we can probably cover a lot.

Didn’t have much resources to work around with. Back to detestable suzuki book, it was book two. One easy piece and two relatively difficult pieces. I suppose they will be good brain work for me to refresh my extremely stale fingers and brain.

There’s little bit of excitement in life now. Of course internship is a total drag but we can’t really blame anybody, can we? I told her about the previous teacher being a little too nice and she snapped that it wouldn’t be so. I think she said that a few times and the last time she did she mentioned about my limits, for the first time. That’s some what safe to here.

Next week will probably be more exciting, she promised, or rather mentioned, that she will be gathering some resources.

I need to head down to the library soon. Probably on saturday (just so you, you, you, know), but I need to practise as well. It is a little difficult to cope.

No tutoring this week, thank God.

I definitely need to bulk up on my listening. Probably going to get down to listening to baroque ensemble music for real, and some violin music for a start. I will probably need to add trio sonatas to the list. I added lots and lots of vladimir horowitz to my play list but never got down to listening to them. It’s an awful waste.

Did think of heading down to library on sunday to do some reading, but I figured I shouldn’t. I need my sunday afternoon naps and it’s supposedly ordained for rest, so let it be as it was. And from sunday onwards, it will be the last two weeks.

I’m secretly shouting for joy.

No la, internship isn’t that bad. But I have a million and one other things to do.