To start off my first, I went on a five mile leisurely run.

On my run, the idea came to me to make shorts of about ten measures each of my Four Seasons pieces, for my private students to play. We can film the recital of them playing my composed shorts. These shorts will be the fun parts, but broken down into slower playable variations separated by open notes with a bow circle, for my private violin students. Typically in the fall the only thing I do private lessons for is essential elements, a Minuet in Suzuki, scales, a NYSMA solo, perhaps a Christmas song. However, I feel like if I make the shorts into practice pieces, they can be recital or audition pieces in the springtime which would be very cool for my private students to attain. Everyone can have their music in front of them, play dress up, and it will be slow and playable for the level my private students tend to be on which is very nice.

I plan on doing my studio sessions by fall/winter and late winter, and having the videos of me playing each piece individually outside in the ambiance of a correlating season finished by springtime. The videos will be live of course, while the studio session will sound like they were recorded in a studio. Hopefully, Summer can be recorded on the beach somewhere sunny, during the winter. Next summer, I would like to perform all four pieces of Four Seasons at once for my ‘big recital’.

My Four Seasons project really is going to be a powerful experience for my year post the nightmare of covid.

On less serious terms, I am shopping for a new bow with rose gold hardware, which is fun seeing all the new high tech bows on the market these days.

What ideas will I have on my long run tomorrow?!