Revisiting Paganini Caprice No. 17 in One Week?
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- Опубликовано: 11 фев 2025
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Link to Dr. Melrose's thesis on Paganini Caprices: digital.librar...
0.00 Intro
0.06 Day 1
03.23 Day 2
07.56 Day 3
10.15 Day 4
11.24 Day 5
13.42 Day 6
15.02 Day 7
Hello, my name is Mimi and I’m just someone who really loves playing the violin!
For so many years, I’ve been thinking about starting RUclips, but my intensely deep rooted
fear of the cameras and all things related to it have been holding me back...all the way up until about five weeks ago, on a bright and cheery Sunday morning, when I woke up and decided, today is the day, I’m just going to start. So I did! and here I am, uploading this video!
A little background about what I am planning to do on this channel:
I love learning music, and there’s so much that I haven’t been able to learn due to many different reasons. Now, I’ve come to a point where I really want to pursue filling up my repertoire shelf, and I thought, why not document this process for as long as I can and share it, because I’ve noticed that when I watch other musicians practicing or performing online, I become more motivated and inspired, and that’s a pretty nice thing to spread around.
To make this easier to follow, I’ve decided to organize the uploads as projects. For instance, to start all of this off, I’ve decided to go for the 24 Paganini caprices. For this project in particular, I’m setting a one week time frame per caprice, in other words, one caprice per week, and what I’m hoping for is to have the caprice memorized and playable at a reasonable performing tempo, and most importantly, to focus on PROGRESS rather than PERFECTION. This last point is very important, because the fear of not being good enough has time and time again prevented me from doing things I really want to do, and this has in a way limited my capacity as a musician.
Practically speaking, I’m going to document each day, starting with a read through, and then show bits of me practicing which will then be compiled into a video of the 7 days to share with you. I’ll also be sharing my thoughts, and nothing about my learning process will be edited at all because the idea is to acknowledge things as they are. The only thing I have added is some reverb because the acoustic in my apartment is terrible, and this is the only way I won’t go crazy listening to myself.
I have no idea how any of this will turn out. I’m not thinking about whether or not this is an ambitious project or if I’m in way over my head. I’m just going to try my best to commit and see what comes from it and go from there.
As I’m really a beginner about video creation, I’d love to hear your feedback, comments, opinions, criticisms, and of course, any questions, which can all be shared via the comment section down below.
And lastly, for anyone wondering why on earth would I go for the 24 caprices, it's because this project is also something of a little present for my parents, my most avid and loving supporters, who have been asking me to record the 24 caprices ever since I was a kid. I'm not sure how serious they were every time they'd bring it up, but I thought this would make them happy. Love you tons, mom and dad!
Thanks for your time, and I hope you have a fantastic day!
Virtual hugs,
Mimi
Music used in the intro/outro: Golden Hour - Vlad Gluschenko
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Nice work! 👍👍
Thanks for watching 🥳
Amazing practice and performance! Thanks!!!
Thanks for your encouraging words :D!
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Wow, that's so great! Looks like you had tons of fun playing this caprice! Very playful and sweet interpretation! Also very useful to see your choices of fingerings.
Thanks for watching :3
I'm following your footstep and finally got to caprice 17 now (but my 1 week isn't even half good as your 1 week, haha)! As always, the tips are so helpful :)
Overall I feel like the fingered octaves section in this caprice is hard, but is not unreasonable because the intervals between 1-3 and 2-4 are mostly a whole note in lower positions. What's impossible to me is probably something like chromatic fingered octaves in lower positions :/
It’s amazing that you’re going for it!!! The chromatic fingered octaves definitely do feel very uncomfortable with the extra stretching involved! I found that the more tension free time I spent on them, playing them slowly and softly as a warm up really helped my fingers adjust without any pain :D I am rooting for you!!! 🥳🥳🥳
Your tone is beautiful, your performance was interesting to listen to, and it's super impressive that you learned this so quickly! (you must practice 40 hrs a day) If you don't mind me asking, where did you study?
Aw!! Thanks for your sweet comment!!!
As fun as practicing 40 hours might sound (at some point, time is a luxury!), I end up spending anywhere between 30 min-2 hours per day for these weekly paganini Caprices :) It really depends on how much time I have available, especially while juggling other projects at the same time. I just try to make the most of the time I do have :D
I studied for my bachelor's degree at Carnegie Mellon with Cyrus Forough and obtained my masters degree at Maastricht Conservatorium with Yuzuko Horigome!
You practice very efficiently and effectively ( as shown in your videos) ! I would love to see a video on your fav practice methods and tips on how to practice certain things. (for example, different bow strokes, double stops, etc.)I know that your videos have these sprinkled throughout, so maybe even an edit of them spliced together would be cool. If you get the time, that is! Thanks for the reply :)
Sounds like a super fun idea! I'll definitely look into it soon!!