More ideas and Progress

NYSSMA is less than a month away! I have been working on the second page of the solo and noticed that the third page is very similiar to the first. That will make it easier to learn in the end. Other things I need to start memorizing is scales because the NYSSMA judge will randomly select about seven scales to play so I'm going to ask Mrs. Rivenburg to help me prepare for those more. I'm also going to be going in for extra help before first period more often to prepare for the solo. I have thought about a final product more too. This boy named Sean in my orchestra class prepares music for the entire orchestra and it inspires me to want to do that myself. However, I don't know the notes for the Bass and Cello and I want the final product to be primarily on the viola and maybe the violin. So maybe I'll make a piece for the violas and ask Mrs. Rivenburg if we can play it in class and I will record it. For the solo I could ask the judge if I could record myself performing it as well.

Chugging Along

I'm learning the notes on the D string and A string, which are the last two on the right and I have to say I'm starting to get them confused with the violin notes. The Viola notes are completely different from the Violin ones because for example, open D string on the Viola would be played as the note "C" or two fingers on the A string for the Violin and all of the A string notes for the Viola would be played on the E string for the Violin. The difference between the Viola and the Violin is it's lowest string is the C string and it doesn't posses an E string, the highest. The Viola's lowest string is G, which the Viola has, but it's highest is E, which the Viola doesn't obtain. The order of the Viola strings from lowest to highest is: C, G, D, A, and the Violin's order is: G, D, A, E. That is why everything is a shift and it gets confusing along the way to learn notes that I am already familiar with but they are played differently on a new instrument.