Viola immediately after a 1 week vacation hiatus (Day 38)
Viola had to take a hiatus for a little over a week while I was on vacation in Taiwan, so naturally, I'm a bit rusty. This is simply a video of me jumping back on and playing whatever I remember by heart in a row.
Pretttty nasty. But, it's a nice little checkpoint to compare to Day 1 to now, and where I can push forward from here. I finally, kind of, learned the vibrato but it's proving impressively difficult to use in the context of a song. It's still really difficult but I'll try to post a video using that technique in the coming days.
Anyway, I can see what I have to improve here. The usual; corpse-style bowing hand, squeaky tones, blah blah blah. I will be focussing purely on scales rather than songs for a little while, too, to become more familiar with the 'fretboard'.
Enjoy. If possible...
Nice! I hear the improvement for sure. You are making me want to learn how to play the viola. Or any instrument beginning with Vio.
How about the Viola de Gamba?
Totally, yes!