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Slurring two string and notecards

posted 26 Feb 2010

The waltz I am working on introduces a two string slur which is a first for me. Samantha had me practicing this pattern by first double stopping the strings then alternating them. I will practice with a metronome. Also, need to exercise switching strings upbow, upstring, downstring, downbow, upstring, downstring, etc.

Another exercise is hearing flats/sharps by ear. Need to work on that one. but it is hard to practice without an instructor. But, I do need to work on my sight reading. I plan on making some notecards to practice playing notes without knowing the "song" by mixing them up and to increase my sight reading speed.

As always, more bow.

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Brandon Philips by Mujtaba Ali

ifup.org is the weblog of Brandon Philips and contains excerpts from my code, work and play.

I write Linux software and work on the systems layer of Linux. In the last two years I have helped to organize Linux Plumbers Conf and Freedom HEC Taipei. It has been rewarding to bring together these communities to discuss current Linux issues.

Robotics is another passion and I had the opportunity to mentor a FIRST Robotics team in Portland recently too. I also continue to work with my friend Ron Jackson to build some neat USB devices for robotics.