Keep Sunday holey.

 

Moving right along...

I had a five year old, who has just started learning the violin, pop around the other day. He saw the two double basses in our living room and was amazed by their size - he thought they were very big violins. I played a little bit of arco double bass for him. He looked at my bow and said, "You've got a violin stick!"
I can't stop calling it that now.
The power of a five year old.

Well, there wasn't any interest shown for my violin scale advice on my last post.

I was thinking of sharing my 12 essential things to practise if you want to play jazz (on violin), but I think I'd be wasting my time. I can see why Robert wouldn't be interested because he did question the need to play in tune in a comment on my last post.

I've included my reply.

 As for Peter, his only known music performance experience has evidently been on the bagpipes. I just hope he didn't practise early in the morning, or late at night. Maybe he did and that's why the people on his local 'Neighbourly' site don't seem to like him much.

 

Sorry about the American
spelling of 'neighbours'.

I did 1 1/2 hours of practice on my violin this morning. I did an hour on The Orange Blossom Special (a solo violin version) and thirty minutes on Project Violin 100. I guess it's time for some double bass practice now. I'll do some work with my fingers AND the violin stick.

Don't forget to keep Sunday holey.

Ciao tutti.