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May 15th, 2017

Start time: 12:00pm

Things to do:  - warm up with long tones on open strings, scales, and kreutzer.  - slow work on bach... refresh first 4 lines and add on 2 more.   - slow work on hindemith... getting comfortable with trouble areas and focusing on resonance! 

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time to start practice journal again!

accomplishments thus far: 

- learned the 1st movement of der schwanendreher! now time to get comfortable and feel free while playing- form musical ideas! 

- started brahms no.2 op.120 movement 3

- started rebecca clarke 1st movement

- refreshing bach suite no.4 prelude 

- keeping up with scales practice, open string long tone practice, kreutzer #19 (working on strengthening trills)

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Playing Viola with Ease: Karen Tuttle's Concept of 'Coordination'

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#reference #practice notes

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February 22nd, 2017

1:30-3pm: lots of brahms!!! just felt like jammin’! run through of bach (fixing memory slips) and campagnoli!

5-6pm: sightreading mozart trio in e-flat with michelle, then practicing chamber music rep fixing certain areas that felt awkward in the strauss

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Feb 21st, 2017

5:40-7pm: tech & campagnoli (solidifying shifts and minore section!)

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February 20th, 2017

- 8:30-9:30pm: learned campagnoli!! Yay!

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February 18, 2017

Practice from 1-3pm - technique - campagnoli

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Reading Week Goals:

- Learn Campagnoli 40 - Memorize as much of Partos possible! Figure out what you are trying to do musically! (Work on bow distribution and limit use of vibrato!!) - solidify Bach Prelude no.2 - Chamber music !!!! - make ur scales beautiful

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February 12th, 2017

4-5:45: chamber rehearsal

7:30-9: chamber orch rehearsal 9-10pm: bach and partos

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February 11th, 2017

4-5:40: tech stuff and mostly just memorizing bach

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February 10th, 2017

4-5:30: tech (scales, double stops, etc.), bach!! Memorizing 2nd prelude yay!!

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Chamber Coaching With Elissa Lee

- thema: play it like the easily hummable melody it is instead of playing rigid, metronomic and uptight. Stacatto-marked quarter and eights not too short. - variation 1: longer stroke?? Imagine playing a half note for each bar… phrase your sixteenth notes this way! (Different from Tom in that he wants a crispier and spiky sound) - variation 2: more viola!!! But still listen to the violins melody! Watch out for violins fp… -variation 3: change the way you play the eights… phrase with the melody! - variation 4: sextuplets overpowering bass line?

#practice notes #chamber music

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February 8, 2016

- 11:30-1:17: tech for 30 mins (scales, double stops, arpeg), bach prelude 2 for 30 mins (memorization!) and partos for one hour!

-4:30-5:30: trout 4 rehearsal!

-5:30-6:30: chamber coaching with elissa lee.

- 8-10:50: partos, mostly just jamming!

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February 7, 2016

- 2:30-3:30: Chamber Rehearsal (Trout)

- 3:30-4:40: Warmed up with dom7/dim7, d major sixths and thirds (trying todo 2 notes per bow!), dohnanyi review (SLOW WORK!) in preparation for next weeks performance, partos (solidifying triad shifts: root, fifth, third)

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February 4th, 2016

LYS concert! 9:00-10:07pm: memorizing first page of Bach, isolating trouble spots and rationalizing! (Where did you mess up, why did you mess up, how to fix it?), also started campagnoli 40!

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February 3rd 2017

Focus: Bach & Campagnoli (practice that one little part on last page of trout u know what im talking about!!!) + tech! **** LYS Rehearsal today****

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February 2nd 2016

Focus for the day: practicing partos last 2 pages in preparation for rehearsal with raymond tomorrow! Also practicing dohnanyi and other chamber. Warm up with technique set!

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