coolpinkone said
@BillyG I was hoping for some feedback from you as well as the others... Bad feed back is ok too.

Hia @coolpinkone !   Just back from an extended "working holiday" ( is there such a thing? ) and trying to catch up on things.

I hear a marked improvement, the effort is paying off.  Fluffed notes are relatively unimportant, and the point is, you play through them, avoiding the tendency to stop and correct, and indeed on occasion I'm sure I've seen you do small corrections on the fly - that's the way to do it.  Some well known violinist ( I forget who it was ) said, "of course my intonation isn't perfect, it's just that I correct so rapidly the listener is unaware of it"  ( or words to that effect ).   I also feel you pretty much have the rhythm sorted, albeit with a couple of deviations from the basic tempo.  Again, nothing too much to concern yourself about.  

When I encounter a "difficult" part in a piece - even just a few bars where perhaps either the fingering is defeating me, or the rhythm changes, I'll often score it up maybe with MuseScore or one of the other editors I have, put in a bass drum and snare as the "click" for timing and voice the melody line with piano rather than strings.  I will listen to that over and over - dozens of times - and sometimes if it is a REAL MEAN piece, I'll slow the tempo.  Eventually the "flow" sticks in my mind, and I'll then start to play along to it.  I do find that breaking a piece into sections like that really helpful.

As you already know, I do not play from sheet (although I largely understand sheet, I cannot play directly from it - but my sight reading speed is gradually improving) - so - eventually, I find myself in the position where I am in "automatic mode", and don't even have to specifically think about the notes to play - it just "happens" - leaving me free to concentrate on bowing, expression and dynamics.   I don't know how many iterations this takes really - but I would say it must be around 150 to 200 hundred attempts all the way through the piece before the actual tune and rhythm is "burned into my subconscious" (or something).

So, that's it - minor issues with intonation and timing.  Although I liked the expression you brought to the piece, I feel the bowing action could be a little bit more "precise" - well - I don't know enough to properly describe what I am trying to say here - but - that is just down to more, and more, and more practice!

The biggest "negative point" I have to make is that once again Toni, yes, once again my friend, you have caused me to have to learn yet another piece to add to my repertoire !!!!  Arggggghhhh !     Well done, and thanks for the post Toni !