Passing the Torch lessons has made Jayrhien improve as a musician by learning the fundamentals of playing the violin. During our lessons together, Jayrhien learned how to properly hold the bow and violin. Learning this skill took harder than I expected due to the amount of correction we had to do and the time it took to fix it, but eventually, Jayrhien was able to fix her wrist and bow hold. We then moved to learning the positions of the finger depending if the note was natural, flat, or sharp. This was one of the hardest things Jayrhien did since she was still a beginner and her finger has yet to learn where to go, she would often forget to keep playing F natural as her fingers go back to play F sharp and vice versa. With this problem there
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Jayrhien accomplished this by playing pieces with a key signature of C major to practice playing F natural, and B major to practice F sharp (also did this technique for others e.g. B flat), we would then play a piece that both sharp and flat to mix things up. Then, Jayrhien practiced playing with her 4th finger. This was a mind game for Jayrhien as she kept telling herself that she could not do it because “it’s too far,” but I knew that she was capable of playing it. We worked on techniques on how to extend her pink better by moving her elbow more the right to help her reach further. Lastly, Jayrhien learned how to do slurs and staccato to give more life the final piece she was going to play at the end of this project. With this, Jayrhien had a great deal of trouble learning how to keep the bow moving and apply equal pressure on the bow to avoid screeching when slurring. We went back to the basic and learned how to grip the bow again so she can apply the same pressure all the time, we also worked on keeping the bow moving by holding notes to get her used to it. Jayrhien also struggles with counting when staccato was introduced. This was because she would play the staccato way to fast or way to slow from what it was intended to
Jayrhien accomplished this by playing pieces with a key signature of C major to practice playing F natural, and B major to practice F sharp (also did this technique for others e.g. B flat), we would then play a piece that both sharp and flat to mix things up. Then, Jayrhien practiced playing with her 4th finger. This was a mind game for Jayrhien as she kept telling herself that she could not do it because “it’s too far,” but I knew that she was capable of playing it. We worked on techniques on how to extend her pink better by moving her elbow more the right to help her reach further. Lastly, Jayrhien learned how to do slurs and staccato to give more life the final piece she was going to play at the end of this project. With this, Jayrhien had a great deal of trouble learning how to keep the bow moving and apply equal pressure on the bow to avoid screeching when slurring. We went back to the basic and learned how to grip the bow again so she can apply the same pressure all the time, we also worked on keeping the bow moving by holding notes to get her used to it. Jayrhien also struggles with counting when staccato was introduced. This was because she would play the staccato way to fast or way to slow from what it was intended to