65 min
An @EmilyCello deep practice session. I almost feel like I was in an altered state of consciousness, and I can't remember everything I did after the fact. I wonder if it would be useful to take notes along the way, or if that would interfere with the motor stuff?

How I divided the time:
C MAJ scale, 3 octaves. Making sure everything was loose and in tune. Then a slow ascending 2 octave C MAJ, 3 gesture martele down and up bow on each note, completely relaxing all bow hand tension before each martele segment. That took forever. At least 5 minutes, for a total of 20 minutes on the warmup.

Breval play through, focusing on gentle bow hold and balance over the strings, ignoring the sound quality as much as possible. ~7 min

Haydn C m71-78. This is the chord bowing exercise in the development that I have labeled "passage work B." We went over a practice approach in my @EC lesson yesterday. I can't remember the order I did things here, but I divided the time between pizz, playing the chords with separate bows, and slurring them. As I focused more deeply on the chord patterns and changes, I stopped playing in the middle to analyze the chords. At some point I had the epiphany that this whole section is about 3 chord progressions divided from each other by the 3 separate stacato "gasping for air" notes. This section now makes intellectual sense to me, and I am making good progress on memorizing it. I love the feeling of the moment that happens, and it's so hard to predict. I leave thinking "How could I have not recognized that before?" and laugh. That part is predictable.

Four hours with Emily on Deep Practice to come this afternoon. Don't you wish you were here today?