Interval Review:

Reviewed intervals from yesterday. A string - B string intervals are totally foreign to me, so I failed the reviews of those cards from yesterday.


Warm-up/Technique:

Finger-stretching exercise - 1st position

String Walking exercise (Pumping Nylon pg. 37) with i,m eight @ 100 bpm
String Walking exercise with m, l with eight notes @ 65 bpm. Decreased from 75 because I really wanted to nail the notes perfectly

Made up a little lick - I would never (up to now) play this while improvising because I avoid position changes and descending lines - but those things add color to the music.

Here's a vid:




String-Jumping 1st string to 5th string, 2nd string to 6th string @ 65 bpm (same descending)

Right-Hand Velocity (pg. 63) with sixteenth notes @ 107 bpm rest & free.
l, m @85 bpm rest & free

Synchronization Exercise (Pumping Nylon pg. 65) with i,m sixteenth notes -
at yesterday's speed of 89 bpm, the pinky went up too high, lowered to 86

l, m @ 76 bpm.

Putting it all together p. 67 Exercise - @ 90 bpm - rhythm wasn't perfect, so took it down to 85 bpm and tried my best to make my beat coincide with metronome (you know it's right when you can't hear the metronome beat)

Scale Rhythmic Variation p. 68 @ 85 bpm

Speed Burst pg. 69 Exercise 1.A @ 70 bpm


Repertoire:

Estrellita
Check it out.
Got myself worked up and quite nervous, so made a couple of errors. Was able to recover in Part C, but still made a mistake. Good lessons in performing:



Pica Pica



Na Gafieira Do Vidigal
Went onwards - Baden Powell's (BP) busting out crazy, subtle, barely audible rhythms here with artificial harmonics. I'm bound to forget this by tomorrow



Samba Caribe
Bart A measure 12-13 arpeggio to chord - still hard. Messed it up in recording.

Part B measures 12-15 lost confidence - looked at fingerboard