In “Anna remembers she really needs to practice the instrument” news, here’s today’s fiddle practice report!

• Time practiced: 10 minutes
• Scales practiced: One octave G, one octave D, one octave A, two octave G, two octave A
• Arpeggios practiced: One octave G, two octave G
• Other techniques practiced:
  • Double stops, lower string, upper string, both strings, all three string pairs
  • Double stops, upper string, lower string, both strings, all three string pairs
  • Left hand rehearsal on B part of La fée des dents
  • Being mindful of left hand finger curve
  • Being mindful of elbow position to facilitate finger curve
• Tunes practiced: La fée des dents, A part and B part

I haven’t tried to play André Brunet’s lovely La fée des dents in a while, so it was a pleasure to revisit it today.

This is one of the tunes that you definitely want to play in a nice flowing kind of way. Figuring out where to put some slurs seems like my primary tool for encouraging that… though I also need to keep in mind that there are questions here of just how smoothly I change fingerings and change bow direction, too.

But that said I did begin to identify some spots in both the A part and the B part where I could add some of that sense of flow, for lack of a better word. By which I mean, some spots where I could put in a few short slurs.

Mostly though I wanted to review the tune and remind myself of the fingerings necessary for it. And I’ll look forward to working with this one some more!