It's time for an update! As of now, things are still going slowly but smoothly, apart from the one tuning incident. I have been practicing my pizzicato and the fingerboard. I have learned the notes for the Key of D, and have spent the last week or so running through scales and simple songs. I still don't always land on the right note, but I can hear and feel myself getting better. Along with this however, come some pains--not all bad, though! My finger tips are becoming calloused, which is good--no more tenderness and pain. My left hand and fingers are also getting stronger and more dexterous as I become more comfortable holding the violin and moving along the fingerboard. However, the first finger on my left hand sustained some sort of absurd tenderness or sprain, making it painful to practice or even use that finger at all for several days. I chalked it up to over use:)
Along with physical pains have been the tuning pains. After my last lesson, my violin stayed in tune and the pegs stayed put. However, today my G string was just slightly off--and thus ensued thirty minutes of playing with the fine tuners, and occasionally the pegs, to get the strings back into tune; for as all know, as soon as you get one string tuned, another goes off just a little. But at long last, I got them all in tune, and while I don't think I truly understand the tuning process any better, you can only learn by doing, so I gained something in that tonight! Looking forward to my lesson tomorrow...
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