Interval Review:

Reviewed yesterday's intervals (40 cards)

Sight Reading:

So one important aspect of sigh-reading is getting the correct rhythm down. i found a program that generates rhythms based on the time signature and the level of difficult that you choose.

4/4 time, level 3 @ 75.

Also, 3/4, level @ 75


Fretboard Review:
76 correct, 4 incorrect (95%) @ in 2 minutes.
To be honest, I don't know whether I should just move on or keep at the same number of frets in order to improve my score.

Warm-up/Technique:

Finger-stretching exercise - 1st position.

String Walking exercise (Pumping Nylon pg. 37) with i,m eight @ 113 bpm
String Walking exercise with m, l with eight notes @ 91 bpm. Filed nails, so rest stroke was harder. Hmm, maybe I should file the nails less often.
String-Jumping 1st string to 5th string, 2nd string to 6th string @ 88 bpm

Right-Hand Velocity (pg. 63) with sixteenth notes @ 109 bpm rest & free.
l, m @94 bpm rest & free (slower than the 97 bpm I've been playing)
i, l @ 88 bpm

Synchronization Exercise (Pumping Nylon pg. 65) with i,m sixteenth notes 95 bpm.
l, m @ 83 bpm

Putting it all together p. 67 Exercise - @ 80 with i, m.
@ 75 bpm l, m rest stroke

Scale Rhythmic Variation p. 68 @ 97 bpm i, m
@ 75 bpm l, m

Played etude @ 70 bpm with i, m.

Speed Burst pg. 69 Exercise 1 G & H @ 75 bpm with i, m

Percussive Exercise
Played Nothin on You rhythm @ 90. Realized that there's still something off. Decreased tempo to 70 and practiced slowly.

Repertoire:

Just the Way You Are (Bruno Mars cover)
Practiced @ 71 bpm, making sure that I'm only hitting the notes I need in the bar chord in the first measure. This is especially hard to do when switching from the Bb major chord back to the F chord.

Pica-Pica
Played with metronome on silent at 90 bpm, but it was hard to concentrate for some reason. Definitely didn't get into the groove of the tune.

Estrellita
Wow, my facial expressions suggest I'm really struggling with this piece. I wonder if it detracts from the listening experience.

Samba Caribe
Part A measure 13-14 @ 60 bpm. Sounds solid.

Na Gafieira Do Vidigal
Played beginning to part A @ 70 bpm up to part C. Did well, but the speed is killing me. It's so slow, I feel the spirit of the tune is gone. I was really tempted to play at full speed, and I did. It went fine, but I had to look at the fretboard at times (for the double-stop parts, the wrist position is a bit different, and I'm not so used to them; also for the artificial harmonics, the left hand fingers are supposed to be right over the frets, as opposed to a little to the left when playing normally). I reminded myself that I should get this part down perfectly at a slow tempo before playing at concert speed.

Triad Study:
In order to sight-read properly, I must be able to sight-read chords. In order to do that, I need to be familiar with whether a given triad is in the root, 1st or 2nd inversion. Then, based on that information, which the brain should theoretically process in a tens or hundreds of milliseconds, I should play the correct triad based on my knowledge of the shapes of the root/1st inv/2nd inversion triads.

Currently, I am at the first step of this process. I'm teaching myself to recognize the triads. Created triad deck in Anki in E Major in which I so far have E major, F# minor and G# minor in the first inversion. I will keep adding to this deck on a regular basis.