Things are coming along. Tess can play all of Minuet Two now. We won't have another lesson with Alicia for a couple of weeks, and then the recital is around the corner. It was decided at the last lesson that Tess would play Minuet One at the recital. Alicia gave Tess an idea to help her with getting her fingers down precisely-- she is imagining a little colorful clown dancing on the scroll of the violin. Certain things done right make the clown jump or spin... if she takes her eyes off her fingers the clown stops dancing. So you see what lengths we are going to.
Tess is much more interested in playing her piano songs on the violin. She can play Yankee Doodle and last night all of a sudden during our practice time she played Frere Jacques. Then she tried to play a whole bunch of other things... it was fun watching her enjoy herself with the instrument. She also decided that she wanted to play Long Long Ago with the bow upside down. I recorded that... need to get the audio file uploaded somewhere and post a link. I think doing that made her much more conscious of keeping the bow in the right position. A good exercise.
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