@Katie M

You can do this! Just stay calm.

Jim Dunleavy has given you sound advice on counting.  In fact, writing out the count throughout the piece will really help simplify this.  It’s not hard.

MAJOR TIP:  Set your metronome to 6/8 time at a very slow setting for preliminary work.  Generically speaking (not referring to the specific measure you questioned), a measure counted in 3/4 time is:  1 and 2 and 3 and.  When your metronome is set to 3/4, you’ll have a tick on: 1 2 3.  BUT, when you set the metronome to 6/8, you’ll have a helpful tick on: 1 and 2 and 3 and.  This granularity will really help you stay on course and finesse the trickier counts.  When you’re really comfortable with the timing at your pace, it will be much easier to switch to Fiddlerman’s All Parts click track to polish it all up.

Pay special attention to measures 10 and 11.  Carefully count the semiquavers at the end of bar 10, which together will take up just half a beat. Then, carefully count the triplets at the beginning of measure 11, together the triplets will occupy one full beat.  

Put the violin down, and just count out the whole piece while tapping out the beats with your hand as you look at the sheet music. Then, count it out while listening to the metronome.  Next, count it out while  listening to Gibbles play, and again while listening to Fiddlerman’s click track, all the while looking at the sheet music.

Warm up by practicing the F major scale repeatedly and the G major scale as well.

Practice the intervals in measures 9 and 10 again and again.  Nail your B flat, C natural, and F natural.  

Put all the pieces back together and work on the whole.  Notice all the repetitive phrases throughout.  There’s less to learn here than you realize.

Today, you only need to see a couple measures at a time.  Go to your local library later on when you have time and print out a couple copies of the piece from the public computers with internet access there.

Have fun with it!

Unfretted