Another day in the lovely land of tonal harmony.
This lesson was good, and bad.
It was good because I've apparently made progress.
It was bad because I couldn't even get through the first half of my piece by memory in front of my teacher. Therefore, no master class next week for me.
I don't know why I get so incredibly nervous when I play from memory, or even why I screw up. I mean, it's not like I don't know the piece. The only thing Roger told me to do is to A) practice the *notes* without the rhythm (which is incredibly hard to do, actually) and B) stare at the 'point of contact' (ie: where my bow hits the strings. I've been having a bit of a problem with doing that, since I'm so used to just shutting my eyes when I play from memory. In my lesson he just told me that if I looked away for even an instant from where my bow hit the strings, he would end my lesson. So...yeah. I didn't look away. And he said I got further and played better in rhythm than before.
Sooooo...I dunno. Lots of work. And I have to fix my left hand position a bit. My lesson was like, an hour and a half because he went half an hour over on Melissa before me, and then I mentioned something about Norwegian pop music, which somehow got him off on a tangent about 80s punk culture and the present state of the US in the global economy *_*. Yeah...okay. Nobody ever said I wasn't good at derailing conversations.
It was good because I've apparently made progress.
It was bad because I couldn't even get through the first half of my piece by memory in front of my teacher. Therefore, no master class next week for me.
I don't know why I get so incredibly nervous when I play from memory, or even why I screw up. I mean, it's not like I don't know the piece. The only thing Roger told me to do is to A) practice the *notes* without the rhythm (which is incredibly hard to do, actually) and B) stare at the 'point of contact' (ie: where my bow hits the strings. I've been having a bit of a problem with doing that, since I'm so used to just shutting my eyes when I play from memory. In my lesson he just told me that if I looked away for even an instant from where my bow hit the strings, he would end my lesson. So...yeah. I didn't look away. And he said I got further and played better in rhythm than before.
Sooooo...I dunno. Lots of work. And I have to fix my left hand position a bit. My lesson was like, an hour and a half because he went half an hour over on Melissa before me, and then I mentioned something about Norwegian pop music, which somehow got him off on a tangent about 80s punk culture and the present state of the US in the global economy *_*. Yeah...okay. Nobody ever said I wasn't good at derailing conversations.