After writing down my thoughts about my violin playing the other day, I did my practice as usual. I had to concentrate a bit harder, but I can see what my problem was with my bowing. It's all in the wrist action. The way you move your wrist will then enable you to keep your bow on the strings. Keeping strings on the bow should give you less squeaks. The movement of the wrists is difficult at the moment, but with practice it will get better. After trying it today, I was a lot happier. My wrists started to ache a bit and it made me realise that it was working, may be I am doing it right. I am now looking forward to my next practice session, so I can practice that movement some more. With practice, I can get it the way it should be.
Another day, another practice and it wasn't good. One thing after another goes wrong. Firstly, my violin is out of tune. I've tried tuning it, but I'm not good at tuning. I may have to wait for my next lesson and have Alla tune it for me. I've been practising my wrist movement and I feel like I've gone back to the beginning when I first started learning to play. I am so depressed, I'll never get this right. I didn't finish my practice, my violin doesn't sound right and my wrist movement needs work. I have to keep working on it because I want to play properly with all my bad habits ironed out.
The more I learn about the violin and how to play,the more respect I have for people who play the violin. It really isn't easy.
Is it natural to have doubts on your ability to play the violin? Am I practising too much and should I take a break?
I had a violin lesson and my teacher, Alla, made me feel better. The problem with me, is that I am harder on myself then my teacher is with me. With practice, I'm improving and I have now started sight reading. I'm happy with that because sight reading is a little difficult for me. Hopefully, the sight reading exercises will help me improve. Alla said I need to have confidence in the way I play. I need to be less afraid of my violin and more in control.
This week, Alla has started to teach me how to tune my violin. She is going to get me to tune my violin at the beginning of every lesson. She use to do it before and my violin only got tuned once a week. I'm happy about that as I need to know how to tune a violin. When my violin went out of tune, Alla wasn't around and I didn't know what to do. Now, I do.
Every week, I start to understand more and more about the violin. The more difficult it gets, the more understanding I need. With Alla's help, I understand.
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