I've had a chance to take a closer look at Wei Nin's video & sheet music and compared them to Sigrid's recording of "Everybody Knows". 

I think this will be a great piece to explore different bowing, phrasing and especially dynamics - to get more of the Sigrid recording appeal. 

Wei Nin's use of positions is interesting and great practice, but I might change some of that - maybe also change, add/remove some notes for more expression. There's some great small runs of notes in the accompaniment that can be picked up/added.

I also want to see how I can best utilize my C string - may come in handy to add more powerful harmony touches.  Some chord changes in Sigrid's are very powerful, emotionally - a few select double stops or broken chords might do the trick to convey them. 

You can see from the lyrics, this song starts with 3 verses - each with 6 phrases plus a refrain of 2 more, then 1 chorus of 8 phrases, followed by 3 more verses - each 6+2 refrain phrases.

The whole 1st verse should be soft/unaccented - nonchalant.  Tension builds slowly as the song progresses through the powerful 3rd verse - with a massive, release of longer notes & strong bowing in the chorus. 

More percussive/accented bowing techniques would be great in places - especially in the last half of the 3rd verse, but also in the 4th into a powerful 5th verse. 

The dynamics lower some in the 6th verse like a sober warning.  Needs a very soft last 2 measures (last phrase of the refrain) in the 5th & 6th verses - it has a very dramatic effect. 

If I use NO back-up, does anyone have additional thoughts on this, or suggestions to try for a SOLO piece to feel more like Sigrid's recording of "Everybody Knows"?

- Emily