Tuesday, September 30, 2008

Practiced exercise 10 and andante today with the metronome. Progress is good.

Sunday, September 28, 2008

Exercise 10

I practiced exercise 10 with the metronome at 80 sixteenth notes per minute. I tried practicing the piece backwards and this new way of practicing helped to smooth out some of the rough parts of the piece. I practiced for about 45 minutes and I feel like I am making good progress.

Monday, September 22, 2008

Excersise 10

I practiced exercise 10 with the metronome at 80 bpm, It is tough to stay on tempo but i'm improving

Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Aguado

I have found excersise no. 10 (aguado) to be a pretty difficult piece to master. There are a lot more notes and the fingerings are strange, for example in the second measure the piece has me play e on the b string and then the open high e string right after rather than just hitting the open high e string twice. I am struggling through the first few phrases now and I hope I can have the whole piece by the end of the week.

Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Andante

I practiced Andante today, the piece is significantly more difficult than the Waltz but with enough practice I will be alright

Monday, September 1, 2008

Day 1

I practiced the waltz today. I didn't really encounter to many problems. Its a relatively easy piece to play. I need to work on it with a metronome tomorrow.