I remembered precious little from my short violin career nearly four decades ago. I knew there was a bow, that the strings had names, as did the little dots on the page. I remembered the combination of fingers on the strings and sliding the bow across the strings made sounds. Some not so pleasant, some amazing depending on who played them.
In February, when I barely knew a dozen notes and couldn't count to four and play at the same time, and couldn't recognize anything I was playing beyond the occasional kid song, I went to my teacher's concert.
They played William Tell Overture and I was amazed. So fast, so crisp, so entertaining. And as I watched their fingers fly I thought I'd never be able to play that song.
2 comments:
quite remarkable, lots of notes and no giggling. Imagine what 6 more months will do. proud of you. Mom
Thanks, Mom. I must say listening to it was a little bit painful...but, I'm playing the dang thing. After ALL the retakes and halfway thru, "DANG IT!" redos, I didn't even feel like giggling. Haha. 6 more months....looking forward to my progress. Hopefully I won't be practicing the same three songs I got going on now.
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