Friday, November 27, 2009

November 27, 2009 Cello Lesson

Today's lessons was OK; better than last week, but not one of my best. Didn't have as much time to practice during the week due to Dr. appts., tests, and two concerts on the weekend.

Played Schroeder #34
Actually played this better at home. Main problems:
Intonation; need to work with a drone and practice getting my fingers straight across the strings when playing 5th chords.
Need to move thumb into position when playing an extension; example, in half notes from E to G#, get the thumb under the third normal finger position. Sort of anticipate the extension.

Will move on to Schroeder #35 for next week. Is longest yet and is at the point; aim for upper 1/3 of bow. Will be playing out of position at various points.

Retired the Breval Sonata in C; was playing that fairly well these past couple of days.

Vivaldi wasn't very good. B usually has something good to say about anything I play, but couldn't come up with anything other than it was better than last week (sight read) but wasn't good.

Pay attention to lines over some of the 8th notes; make longer
Changed the bowing to reflect B's copy and the Suzuki copy
In difficult 8th note passage (one with all the string crossings) pay attention to extensions; was not playing those correctly.
Can use more bow in last 16th note section.
Do a quick vibrato on quarter notes (not too many of those) and appropriate 8th notes; the ones introducing a run of 16th notes. Just a quicky.
Don't rush; don't play 16th notes staccato

Will work on this for next week and will at least attempt to play some of the next part of the allegro movement.

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