Hi @Fran - here's some thoughts - but keep in mind I'm still a novice myself, but here are my observations !

Your intonation is pretty good !

I notice the spread-out fingers on the bow - now - in this instance - it probably makes little difference - but - and this is just me - I prefer to keep them fairly tight together on the stick.  There are probably different schools of thought on this, but I do find the fingers-closer-together-grip more amenable to giving better control especially over longer bow strokes.   But - I don't really think that's the issue here - it's just an observation.

I assume you're asking, because you feel you're not making as much progress as you'd wish ?  

Here's what I am seeing.....   I suspect you are reading from sheet.   That's awesome of course, but, we often struggle with simply "too many things going on at once".   I play a lot of tunes by-ear - just because I know them in my head already.  I do NOT have a mental connection between a note position on the stave and the left-hand finger position - I appreciate that many people DO - my "learned approach" to finding the note comes down to experience of other instruments, an understanding of basic musical theory and years of playing as a pastime - so once I know what key and mode I have to play in, I'm away!

HOWEVER - and here we have it ( LOL ) - when I have to learn a new-to-me-tune - I'm EXACTLY the same as you there, in the video - in fact worse - I'm almost sawing-away at individual notes, not building them into complete musical phrases, misinterpreting bow-direction changes and so on....  

For me, it's like some kind of mental "overload".  So, what I do is indeed - force myself to play ( "saw-my-way" hahaha )  through it, this "new-to-me" piece, from sheet, several times.   Depends on the complexity of the piece of course, but for me, probably half a dozen times through will have pretty much got it into my head.    THEN - I put the sheet aside - and start to play it from memory.   If it is too difficult to remember it all, I'll break it down into maybe 4 or 8 bar sections -perhaps going back to sheet to really familiarize myself with that section - and then - put the sheet to one side and simply concentrate on getting the sound, and feel of what I'm playing to my liking.  With that decoupling, it gives me time to really concentrate on the bowing action, dynamics, string crossing point or "lane", bow speed, pressure, direction change and so on, and that's only the right arm/hand !!!

Of course, it's easy for me to say that because my preferred genre is fiddle music - which is open to ALL sorts of individual interpretation.  You have to be a lot more precise with classical themes.

Anyway - that's what I kind of saw in your video - as I say - it is reminiscent of me when I try to "follow" sheet on something that is new-to-me - it's as if, for me there is too much going on - and once I decouple the sight-reading from all the other subtleties of actually PLAYING I find it gets easier, and better !   And yes indeed - sight-reading - that is a failing of mine but I do work on it and I'm improving as time goes on.   For new pieces, I also find it REALLY useful to either play along to an existing performance, say on YouTube or CD, or, when all else fails, I'll score it up in a music editor where I can change the tempo and start by playing it slowly.

I don't know if these thoughts / observations will help or not - it's just that I have shared (and still do) similar feelings about my own progress.

Good luck !

Hia @Fran - can you post the link to the Canon sheet you are using please ?   I take it that is IS here on the forum - I just want to get the same one as you are working with.....

Many thanks in advance !   

Yup @coolpinkone - I already "hack away at it" from time to time - it's just one of these melodies that flit through my head... you know...  but it would be nice to be able to play something that is "more complete" rather than the 16 or 24 bars I kind of know and actually end up with something that works as a stand-alone solo in isolation of any backing etc...   anyway, it's on my list as well  !!!  

Any info I get I'll share with you.   I'm sure I could find it if I drove myself to it, but it would be much nicer if it just "fell out of the sky and landed on my desk" to save me the time searching !!!!   Hahahahaha