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I think there was a thread similar to this for last fall... so here we are again.
What are you currently working on? Share a video of the tune if you like (yourself playing, or someone playing it the way you want to play it), or just let us know the tune or technique you are currently working on improving.
Happy Autumn!!
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I might be a little over ambitious, but I started working on this tune last week, and went over it in class today. I'm still slow at it, but my fingers are getting used to it. Plus, my teacher let me play on her 1700s-era violin, and a couple 1800s-era bows she was testing (part of it was so she could hear what the fiddle sounded like away from her ear, she hasn't had it very long and this was her first time getting to hear it played by someone else. It was fun!)
Anyway, here it is, The Gothard Sisters playing their original tune, Hummingbird (you may remember these ladies from my Traveler videos):
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I started this piece today
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Both great tunes!!
I am working on the speed of GoldRush
and trying to loosen up and add more of me to it.
Violinist start date - May 2013
Fiddler start date - May 2014
FIDDLE- Gift from a dear friend. A 1930-40 german copy, of a french copy of a Stradivarius. BOW - $50 carbon fiber. Strings - Dominants with E Pirastro Gold string.
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That was so cool that you met the sisters!! @damfino Do you have the sheet music? I have seen many songs named Hummingbird on line.
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Fiddler start date - May 2014
FIDDLE- Gift from a dear friend. A 1930-40 german copy, of a french copy of a Stradivarius. BOW - $50 carbon fiber. Strings - Dominants with E Pirastro Gold string.
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@LizaA That sounds like a pretty tune to play 
@Schaick Those seem like fun tunes!
And I loved getting to meet the sisters, very sweet girls. I got the sheet music from their website: http://www.gothardsisters.com/store
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You guys have great taste. All fun stuff.
Thanks for the link to the sheet music damfino.
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@damfino Thanks for the link!!
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@Schaick No problem
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I'm still working on Wohlfarhd #1 but also #2 & #3. Doing scales as well. Trying to get better bow hold and intonation in general.
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@Fran Fun! I'm going through the Wohlfahrt book, too. I can't remember which etude I'm working on, though. My teacher bounces me around a bit. There are some pretty ones in there, and some that I just like the feel of so don't mind using as a warm up before I get into my practice.
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Wohlfahrt is great.
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So lately I have just been playing stuff I have been playing for a long time....
Ashokan, Amazing Grace, Skyeboat, Godfather, and a lot of the FM sheet songs, and songs from Essentials one and two.
Once or twice a week I just play songs "little" songs from the lesson books so that I can practice playing from sheet. I had fun with simple songs last week.
Tom Dooley, Camp Town Ladies, America the Beautiful, Home on the Range, Pomp and Circ., Can-Can.
I am re-addressing Hunger Games song, Hangin' Tree.
I think I really want to lean to play Comin' through the Rye.
I also have a book of Beatles sheet music and I am dallying around with Hey Jude, and Michelle.
Happy Fall and Happy Playing all.
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Hopefully you are all working on Game Of Thrones too.
Deadline is approaching a bit over a week left.
Thanks
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@coolpinkone : Hi, I noticed you were working on The Godfather....here's my try at it.
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I mess up the 'high jump' ending, so I take another run at the ending after I finish Lara's Theme. It's a bit better but still not right on...oh well
Would it be possible to post yours to see how you do it?
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@coolpinkone : Hi, I noticed you were working on The Godfather....here's my try at it.
..................I mess up the 'high jump' ending, so I take another run at the ending after I finish Lara's Theme. It's a bit better but still not right on...oh wellWould it be possible to post yours to see how you do it?
Great job bluesviolin. You have a video badge now.
If anyone should have a badge that I have not assigned for anything at all, please let me know. I'm terrible at remembering.
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@Fiddlerman I am going to focus hard on Games this week.
I admit to be struggling with it more than usual. Which is odd...because it is surely a favorite for me.
I noticed some of the parts that are "easier" still have double stops... I need to start wearing my "big girl five year player pants.." ha ha.. maybe I should have said, "hat".
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@bluesviolin I loved your Godfather....I am super jealous of how well it sounds.. Jealous in a good way...and it helps me to see my lacking parts. Congrats.
Lara's was very very nice also..boy these songs are (in my opinion) some of the finest modern day scores..mmmmmm.... I love them.
Thank for sharing your video.
AWESOME !
Cheers,
Toni
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coolpinkone said
..................I noticed some of the parts that are "easier" still have double stops... I need to start wearing my "big girl five year player pants.." ha ha.. maybe I should have said, "hat".ahaha
Just play those easy parts omitting the double stops. You can choose the easiest of the two notes.
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Wow, you all have such great taste and most of all luck that you can actually pick which music you want to play! My teacher enslaves me 
Just kidding, I love him and he's the best teacher I have ever had, in anything.. I am very lucky to have him as my teacher. Nevertheless, since he gives me so much homework to do, I can hardly ever find the time to play my favorite tunes.
Currently working and actually I am pretty much at the end of the 1st movement of Vivaldi's concerto in D major. Also working on Wohlfahrt's 27th etude from the 1st book (op. 45), and working on shifting from 1st to 3rd position as well.
Sometimes, when I am done practicing all these (which almost never happens, obviously) or whenever I am just too fed up with the shifting thing (or, as my teacher calls it, "cats" - not the fun musical!), I play "air in D major" by bach and Glenn Miller's "In the mood". Barely make any pregress at them though, since I get to practice them so seldom.
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