Day Off Sick

Was ill with a flu all last week and still fight it so taken the day off work to recover. Didn't rest on the weekend.
- Didn't practice yesterday.
- Today feeling unco-ordinated.
- Initially working through the hold / bowing and elbows.

Good left hand technique requires well trimmed finger nails!?

Is playing sevcik, schradiek, ... with a metronome great or devastating?

An etude is finished when there is nothing more to be learnt from it.

WHF 0p 45 N0 17 is surprisingly difficult to keep light and interesting. The bow arm seems dull and the left hand seems strains. Not sure what is so difficult about these appreggios?!?! Working through it with a metronome doesn't seem to help. Playing around with differnet bowing patterns isn't overly useful. Perhaps this etude is simply boring?!.... There is something about the up-bow movement of the etude that is perculiar but not sure what. tbc...

I barely feel like playing the violin today. I barely feel like doing anything today.

Edward Said seems to be slightly pompous and too theoretical for my earthy natural body approach to sound. Politics is entertainment for the simple mind.