This week I'm easing up on the rhythm practice - I did have a breakthrough -still working on the Sevcik exercise of straight eighth notes (includes over 200 variations of bowing!) I put the metronome on 40 to cover 2 beats (4 notes) and then played around with moving the metronome beat to different parts of the measure. The breakthrough was being able to play steadily with the metronome beat on the 4th and 8th eighth notes in the measure, or with it on the 2nd and 6th eighth notes of the measure. I wanted to put the metronome on the 'and' to see if I could hold a steady rhythm. Finally, after a few weeks, I can! I couldn't do this when I started working on this exercise.
A while ago my teacher mentioned that my vibrato changed speeds as I moved from finger to finger, so I decided that this week I would try to do something about that. I needed to work on something else! So, this week I've been spending a lot of time doing vibrato to a rhythm (guess I couldn't really get away from the rhythm exercises!) seeing if I could make the vibrato 2 to a pulse, 3 to a pulse, 4, 6, and 8, and move from finger to finger keeping the same pulse as whatever I was doing previously. Half of the battle seems to be keeping each finger steady (story of my ongoing rhythm battles) but I hope the side benefit is improvement of tone overall and more control over my vibrato.
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