Interval Review:

Reviewed intervals and added 5th string - 3rd string intervals.

Sight-Reading:
Decided that I may get overwhelmed if I start memorizing both the triad structures and the intervals (they're somewhat in different categories, because I'm studying ALL the intervals now

Warm-up/Technique:

Finger-stretching exercise - switched to 1st position, I've been languishing at 5th position for way too long

String Walking exercise (Pumping Nylon pg. 37) with i,m eight @ 100 bpm
String Walking exercise with m, l with eight notes @ 75 bpm
I filed my nails. Didn't seem like I overdid it, but it's harder to play, especially rest stroke

String-Jumping 1st string to 5th string, 2nd string to 6th string @ 50 bpm

Right-Hand Velocity (pg. 63) with sixteenth notes @ 105 bpm rest & free.
l, m @ 75 bpm rest & free

Synchronization Exercise (Pumping Nylon pg. 65) with i,m sixteenth notes -
85 bpm

l, m @ 70 bpm.

Putting it all together p. 67 Exercise - Crossing the strings is actually much harder than it seems. Had to take it down to 90 bpm and practice those parts exclusively

Scale Rhythmic Variation p. 68 @ 78 bpm


Repertoire:

Pica Pica
Played @ 85 bpm, but double-timed the second repetition of Part B. That relaxed me and the melody flowed.

Also, noticed that it's difficult to nail chord in the 1st ending of Part A (ater measures 16). Practiced this slowly.

Estrellita
Still not confident enough about the position jump in measures 9-10. I suppose I just need to keep hacking away.

Na Gafieira Do Vidigal
Recorded myself and compared to original recording. As I thought, there were nuances that I had missed, etc. Too complex to get into all the details, suffice it to say that there are a lot of nuances there. Didn't go on to next section, because felt like I'd overload my brain with new info.

Here's the vid:





Samba Caribe
I started to practice the jump Part B measures 12-13 chord jump after I woke up in the morning. Naturally, this is where the insightful stuff comes. I realized that the pinky stays in the same position in both chords and that I've been ignoring this opportunity for economy of movement.

Bart A measure 12-13 arpeggio to chord - still difficult at 60. Referred to Gerald Klickstein's section about problem-solving. Some ideas I tried out:
1. Playing the section backwards
2. Modifying the rate of change
This allowed me to see that there's a left and right hand problem. In LH, the pinky needs to be stretched in order to gain the most economy of movement, but pinky-stretching in the first position is quite difficult.