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New fingering for Una Limosna

April 21, 2019

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I'm really excited about this fingering. The double barre and the hinge barre make this passage much more relaxed.

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Savarrez Corum basses

I tried Savarrez Corum basses (normal tension) in last night's string change, but disliked them so much I took them off this morning. The sound of my fingers sliding on them was much louder, and the tone quality was weak and especially poor high on the D string.

Shorter M nail, tension in P

I focused on VL Etude #2 and Una Limosna this morning. Before that, scales. And in the scales, I notice my P was carrying quite a bit of tension. Yuri had noticed that in Una Limosna too. I worked on relaxing it consciously in both pieces. Something to keep in mind. In VL #2 I've been practicing at a steady 52 bpm. It's a good tempo for me, still plenty to work out, especially the barres on the second page and the RH fingering. I spent some time focusing on the end, and need to do more there. I think I want to focus on this piece less now than I have been --- maybe 5-10 minutes per practice but no more. In Una Limosna, I noticed my M nail getting caught, even though I'd just redone my nails. (Especially shortening P, as Yuri suggested.) I filed it down more, and things got better, but it still got caught. So I filed it even more, so it doesn't even reach the fingertip, and voila! My tremolo got much improved....

Pull across strings for tremolo

In my lesson last night we discussed how my tremolo had gotten very tiring, perhaps because of excess tension. One thing Yuri suggested was to pull across the strings rather than up (which is tempting due to the need to prep again quickly). That seems to help with tension and with accuracy. Another thing I'd been worrying about in my tremolo is how my pinky sympathetically curves almost to the palm; but Yuri's moves similarly, so I'm not worried about it anymore.

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New fingering for Una Limosna

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