Hi, HP. First. You are doing great. I don’t recognize the first song, but it was very good. If it is in the Suzuki Book, it is probably one that was skipped when I had an instructor.

The second song, “Minuet No. 1” by J.S. Bach is in Suzuki book 1 pg 38. I was on that page for a long time! For some reason, it is much easier on my cello. I love the song and it is fun to play, but took a lot of work and time. Proved to be so worth it.

Before I offer my suggestions for it, I want to say, you did a really good job on a technical, as far as I am concerned, song. But, you asked for suggestions, so I hope you don’t mind if I tell you what I did. I now have a lot of fun playing this song.

Look at the song as three separate little songs. Spend time working on measures 1-8. Treat it as one song. The eighth note runs, there probably is a musical term, but I don’t know it, are always an issue when we begin, I have noticed. Take those runs out of that little song work on those. Treat them as quarter notes until you are confident with them, then do them as eighth notes. After that, do the measure before it and go right into it. Do this for each run. 

Example: Measure 5 should be worked on its own slowly, then at speed. When you can do it at speed, add measure 4 and flow right into 5. Stop after you finish measure 5. Repeat as much as needed. Now work measure 6, which is very similar to 5. After that is smooth, start with measure 4 and end after measure 6. Now, do that whole little mini “song” until you can do it smoothly. Always play it twice, because it is repeated in the whole song before moving onto measure 9. So you have to be comfortable holding the G for 3 beats and then going to the D in the first measure. So this mini song is the 8 measures repeated.

Now work on the measures 9-16. This would be done the same way. You have measures 12, 13, and 14 to work on the eighth note runs. Make sure that measure 16 has that D held for 3 beats. 

After you have that mini song of measures 9-16 down, add measures 1-8. Remember to repeat measures 1-8 before doing measure 9. Hold all notes to their beat counts.

Now work on the last 8 measure, 17-24. Do the same thing I mentioned for the other two mini songs.

When you are ready, put measures 9-24 together. This is repeated in the minuet, also, so repeat when you put it together. Hold that B at the end for 3 beats before going back to repeat at measure 9. Remember to also hold it for 3 beats at the end.

Remember to hold the B in measure 8, D in measure 16, C in measure 20 and B in measure 24 for 3 beats.

Yep, I know a lot. But this song is so good to learn technical stuff and when it is learned, it will make going forward much easier, plus it is a heck of a lot of fun after it is smoothed out.

The third song I recognize as Etude by Suzuki. That sound really good, too. This, too, is a difficult technical fingering song. I broke this song down into mini songs, also. You should work on the runs, which might be easier to do if you worked them in the Minuet. Don’t go too fast. The speed will come on its own as the song becomes more natural. Really, it will, but it does take time. This will be fun to do, too.

So, you are doing spectacularly. It does help to break songs into mini songs. It helps to work trouble spots on their own before doing them in the songs.

Pay attention to intonation. I can’t believe how few times you were off, but most of the time it is with those trouble spots. Work on them at slow speed and then speed them up. It takes a lot of time.

I am certainly no expert. These are just things that helped me with those two songs, which later have helped me with other songs.

If you don’t move on right now, and spend time breaking these two songs down and working on them, and get them smoothed out, the time spent will certainly pay for itself later. This system with these two songs helped me with:

Intonation

String crossings

Loosen your bowing so it is more relaxed, alrhough yours is pretty relaxed.

These two songs have so many technical parts for fingering and bowing that they are a great place to stop and break them down to hone skills before moving on.

You can play simpler songs periodically so you are not just breaking these down. I might just work on one right now. The first I would do is the Minuet by Bach.

Add some simple songs to your practice before and after working on whatever you are doing with these songs if you go the breaking down route, to break the tedium.

I noticed one issue with all the songs. Make sure you hold the last note out to its full beat count. That is a bad habit to break if you don’t. Ask me how I know. 😁

I really hope this helps. Might or might not. That is just what worked with me for those difficult songs.

One thing I really notice is how well you and your violin seem to connect. I think you chose your instrument perfectly. You look like you are truly comfortable with it.

But all of this depends on your instructor. I typed this up on a notepad because editing within the textbox in the forum is not easy. I just noticed you memtioned an instructor in a reply you made, so your instructor might not agree with me. I learned the breaking songs apart from my cello instructor years ago.

Sounds like you have a good fit in a teacher.