My sister asked me when would I want to meet with my music instructor I have had since I was five or my aunt to look at my violining, and my answer was after I sight read and play a piece well and think I am performance ready. Or if I have a question about how to count something. Taking private lessons every week from five to eighteen was my version of going to college and getting a music degree, and I am lucky that gave me time for all my grad math classes and business classes. So the reason that I wait until I think that I am performance ready is, that is the most constructive time to have a professional critique your playing and tell you everything to touch up or change. Then, I can practice with corrections and actually become performance ready. So before I record certain pieces this upcoming year, I might meet with someone in my professional circle and have them critique me to improve on something. A time that could happen is when I am using my aunt’s fancy violin and with her anyway, which is pretty cool. I would never want to have an appointment with someone that I do not know already, because it would be a step in the wrong direction for me as well as most others. My first professional recording was when I was 12 and there was so much legality tied to it because of being a minor at the time, it is funny to look back on, but now as an adult I am going to have a really good time with this upcoming year. Everyone is in a league of their own performing, and I think that everyone needs to take that step back and say ‘Whatever I just played sounded fine’. I am still unsure if I just want to keep it all in the family or make a YouTube page of my recordings and videos this year, we shall see, but I am predominantly doing this for my family to have all our hard work over the years documented. For instance, I would record Tchaikovsky just for my little cousin to dance to, and arrange things the way she wanted for her dance. I do not know what I’ll post online or just like have for my family. Then there is always, what do I want done in the studio versus my laptop… Four Seasons is definitely a studio thing, but I might do the Christmas songs on my laptop. With the studio selections, what would be the best way to make the video of me playing it? As in should I record separately or have a special thing with the camera? So much to think about. However, no one wants to sync a recording with a separate video, because that would take forever. And then there is that debate about recording downstate or upstate, I would want to do it up here, but since I want to use my aunts’ violin I don’t know where we are going. Just a matter of semantics, nevertheless I am looking forward to opera fudge upon finishing my recordings this year.

Today is rainy and thundering so I have to resort to the treadmill! Let’s see how long I can last on the treadmill, will I break 1:20?