Wed 2:06 (1314-1520)

The Thing for today: balance over left hand

15 min Warmup
Today's is a Just Do the Thing warmup. Started with a serial 3 note pattern up and down the A string, focusing on shifting the weight of the hand over the played note by lowering and raising the elbow, fighting my (un)natural tendency to raise the elbow as I play higher notes. Then did the same thing using the Morgenstern E scale pattern. Switched to C, 4 8va, and the 3 martele strokes/bow to focus on opening the elbow at the tip. Finished with a Breval play through, attempting to keep both of those actions happening - only partially successful, but well warmed up. A slightly longer typing break than called for because John wants to sit in my lap.

Then took a few more extra minutes to make a new practice copy of my Haydn C Henle edition, and to find T4's fingerings and bowing of same. Forget this trying to work from a different edition.

30 min Haydn C exposition
Starting by reading through slowly, using the "right" fingerings and bowings. Then focused on the scale passages, working slow and fast, paying attention to the shifts and finger patterns. Used a metronome at qu = 52, which makes the melody too slow and the 32nd notes still too fast. but I realized I was getting a warped sense of how things hang together rhythmically because I play everything but the 32nd notes at tempo, and the scales much slower. Started from the beginning to do memorization reps of the phrases with the new bowings. Remembered to work on strong bow, light fingers.

30 min cello quartet
10 min Offenbach exposition
10 min Handel, both mvmts
10 min Boismortier 2nd mvmt