Lesson 123 & 124 - Velocity, duets

I've been wanting to focus on velocity in thumb positions. The Popper piece from eons ago still needs thumb position revisions as comfort (and therefore, confidence) is still not a 100% in those higher registers.

Deryn suggests the following exercises to compensate:

Bunting pink book velocity exercises
Feuillard pg 24
Langin book 5

We looked at 3 octave scales that are separated in chunks per octave, playing each octave in various note lengths and learning the notes as they are played. The various note lengths may include double quavers, separated with rests in between sections. This changes the melody of a normal scale and makes it a little different and possibly, challenging.

We start at 66bpm and then faster to establish velocity, with both 2 & 3 octave universal fingerings.

Hopefully, we'll look at the Elegie next week.

One of the things I've been enjoying were baroque duets with my sister. This doesn't happen as often as I'd like due to different commitments and work but when it does, I try to record them so we could listen to the tracks. Deryn recommended 2 books, one only recently uncovered by musicologists in dusty library archives. They seem like advanced repertoires but we like a good challenge :}

Here's one from Tommaso Giordani's 6 Duos for 2 Violoncelli