@stringy Ah! Gotcha. 

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So, I have been working on the Group Project. I have made progress, even on the second page with the E and A strings. I do feel better about them, but it is still not acceptable, for me. 

I also have issues with bowing for 3 or more beats, especially following right up with a note, and then that note being drawn out for 3 or more beats. This, is not improving, at all. Please, do not post videos showing how to biw. It messes me up, and I no longer watch them. I will find something in Fiddlerman's tutorials. I need just one way to do, not a ton. His videos are clear, thought out and very well done. I mean that. Thank you Fiddlerman. I will get there. If time has run kut before I will be too busy to sit and do the video, I will just fudge those long bows, I think there are 4 measures where I have that problem. The rest, is just a matter of getting it down better.

For some reason, I cannot memorize this GP piece. Funny, I seem to be able to get it better, maybe not memorizing and a just relying on the sheet music works better for me. Keeps me from doing whatever I darn well feel like doing! 😂😂😂😂

So, Sunday I turn %#$$&. Yep. I asked my husband if he was going to bake me a cake or buy me one at the supermarket. The supermarket would be chocolate with the whipped frosting option, not the buttercream. The whipped is airy and not so sweet. I suspect he will buy it. That supermarket makes the absolutely best chocolate cake with whipped frosting. Everyone loves it. Hmmm. Wonder if he will do it. I did scale down my idea for this birthday from a trip to Las Vegas to this cake. 😁

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Hey, @Unfretted! Welcome to my Cubby Hole!

Thank you for your comments. I sit down. I have never stood while playing, When I had lessons, it was always sitting down. I did try standing one time when I was not getting lessons, did not go well. I will give it another try. It just might help. It does make sense, based on the  arm position and the body position when bowing those two strings, and mostly the E string.

Congratulations on being literate!  Reading and using sheet music is an essential and valuable skill that you should embrace and take pride in!  The random internet chatter of the day implies that all pieces must be memorized and some folks even enjoy dismissing sheet music as “the dots.”  I just view that as envy from folks who haven’t made the effort to learn to read music well. 

Reading music is about as far as school music teachings went. Complicated music, not so much, too many symbols and stuff that I am not familiar with, but I don't do complicated. This is supposed to be fun. I could categorize my reading music as "adequate" too, and that is a good place because I do not perform, this is just for me, myself and I.

My adequate playing could, quite possibly, improve beyond adequate, my music reading, will probably remain as a adequately literate, which is a good place. 

Thanks for visiting the Cubby Hole! Next time, please bring some chocolate cake with whipped frosting topping. I only ned one piece, not an entire cake. Mice do not really like cheese. This Mouse does, though, but only a little bit. 😂

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Later today, back to the GP work, and my other pieces. I am really enjoying this GP. 

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Thank you, @Fiddlerman. I had a great easy day. I am glad I decided not to take a trip. Staying home was very relaxing. Besides, I was home when my granddaughters facetimed. It is better using an iPad than iPhone, which it would have been, had we headed out somewhere. I was also home when my older daughter and daughter-in-law  called, Who knows how reception would have been had we gone somewhere. 

Cake was good. Haven't had cake in a while. 

I did not get to do my violin. Between phone calls would have been a little hard. Given my granddaughters live 3 hours difference away, by the time they were home from school, had dinner, settled down, I would have already done it. But, earlier, I would have been stopping and starting. I need good playing time sessions or it messes me up. 

It was a beautiful day, so I did go out to read and watch Jer "fiddle" with his tractor, 😂😂😂. He does pretty well with the fiddlin'. 

Later today, I will be doing the group project. I need to find a place with a good background to record it. Might have to be un front of the plant again. Too many windows to try to dodge elsewhere,  it a small house. I would like to record sessions,  now. Who knows, I might get a lucky recording, or, hopefully, when I try for a good one, it won't freak me out, In theory ....

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Dang! I have hit the same roadblock I always hit. I was filled with confidence about the GP. I was going to try to start videoing next week. 

All out the window. I have lost all confidence. I have already begun to panic about a video I will be seen in (again, in my mind it is an audience). 

I was doing so well. 🥴🤯😔

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Weeeellll, I did two videos of the GP, just practice videos. Better than expected, but that is not saying much. I did better before recording. Bummer. I will try again tomorrow.

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Just finished playing my violin. The GP is coming along. I am beginning to have it memorized. I look at the sheet music, but it helps to have it memorized. I was not able to have any of it memorized before. That usually does not happen until a piece starts to sink in and becomes almost second nature, so I guess this means progress. Maybe, I can try to video tomorrow, before I lose it, which also happens after a while, 😂.

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Got my Group Project submitted. 11 takes! But it was submitted.

It stresses me out, but in a good way. It was violin 1 this year, not cello. That was different. 

I learned a lot. Mostly learned what I need to work on. We will see how that goes.

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