Learning Paganini Caprice No. 1 in One Week?
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- Опубликовано: 6 фев 2025
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00.00 Intro + Day 1
06.21 Day 2
07.33 Day 3
13.45 Day 4
14.48 Day 5
17.14 Day 6
21.39 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 one week 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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What's your favorite caprice?
Also, I made a mistake...It doesn’t show on the calendar the days being marked down, but I started recording on January 24th Sunday, and day 7 was on January 30th Saturday!
I’ll make sure that’s fixed in the next video!
Timestamps:
00.00 Intro + Day 1
06.21 Day 2
07.33 Day 3
13.45 Day 4
14.48 Day 5
17.14 Day 6
21.39 Day 7
This is such a brave project to take on! I hope you can record all 24. Thanks for playing slowly at this camera angle/distance. All of us "hacks" can finally see what's going on in this caprice. I think you might be THE FIRST to ever break down Paganini like this on youtube.
Thanks for your sweet comment! Really brightened up my day :D
If you have any requests for camera angles for future Caprices (in advance before filmed, now we are going into week 8) please let me know and I'll try to make it happen! This project is something which I hope can become more informative and useful to others :)
Mimi Jung is the Master of the Violin! Amazing player, musician, and human being! Keep it up MIMI!!!
Fantastic video Mimi! I’ve always wanted to try this Caprice - now I will have a go thanks to your useful video. I have around 8 audio versions of the Caprices by different violinists - I always compare no. 1 and 24 between the artists - I still like the version by Schlmo Mintz the best - on original cassette tape!
Thank you for stopping by! I’m glad you enjoyed it :) I hope you have a great time with the Caprice, and it’s amazing to hear about your experiences with comparing different violinists! There’s always so much to learn 🥳
Wow this is such an excellent idea Mimi!! Keeping my fingers crossed that you manage to learn all of the caprices 🤞🤓
I've been thinking of keeping record of my practicing in a video form as well... still building up the courage though😅
I enjoyed the video very much, looking forward to the next one 🥰
I just started on the second caprice yesterday, but that’s one I know pretty well, so it’ll be a different kind of progress I guess :D
You should definitely just go for it! It’s kind of scary at first, knowing that it’ll be online but I think it can adds to the encouraging atmosphere :3
Miss you tons!!!
@@doremeems miss you too!
👏👏👏👏I love you Mimi 🥰🥰
Haha thanks uncle! Hope you're doing alright :)
Wow! Well done! That's really amazing progress in a week or 10 hours! Bravo for all the courage! Am waiting for the next video, thanks for great content!
Thanks :)
Really awesome video. Thank you so much for sharing. The process means a lot. Thank you.🙏🙏🙏
Thank you for watching! I’m glad you enjoyed it ☺️
You inspire me! Keep it going 💪🏼
Thanks Pablo!!! 🤩
Great process!
Thanks for watching!!
I played the Liszt transcription many years back and the thirds were a similar challenge on piano but probably much easier than for violin
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Oh that’s amazing!!! I love transcriptions, they bring lots of pieces to life in a different way which can be refreshing 🤩
Thank you so much for your vidéos, you're a pretty master
Thank you for watching 🤩🤩🤩
I m expecting more video's, may be you've online courses!
What type of content would be most helpful for you?
@@doremeems I'm interested by efficiency when practicing, methodology
I really love your sounding 💛 ❤️ 💕
you are awesome !! did practicing scales helped you a lot in learning this caprice ?
Thank you for watching!
Practicing scales for many years built a sturdy foundation on which I could rely on to learn all of the pieces. Scales are great 🎉
This is helpful.
Glad you found it useful 🤗
I don't think my hands will ever relaxed enough to play thirds like that ;_;
I’m sure you’ll get there!!! With thirds, I’ve noticed that making sure the left thumb is in the right place really makes a difference :D
wow...I wish I can play like you even though it's your first time on this caprice.
You're very sweet! The thing is, most of these Caprices, I've grown up listening to them, so in a way, they're a bit in my head already :) With a piece I've never heard before, I'll struggle more through the reading :P
You have great violin. It helps a lot to produce this kind of quality. I'm not sure it was sight reeding
I do love my violin a lot, it's my beloved companion :D
Paganini Caprice No. 1, I've heard many times in my life before (definitely more than 200 times probably) but never formally studied it. I find it much easier to play things if I've heard them before, and I have tried to play it through very badly many years ago. So perhaps, you're right, it's not my very first time playing it though, but it did feel very foreign and new while I tried to read it for this video. I hope that clarifies things a bit! :)
Edit: Also, I have a hobby of sightreading pieces quite often, so I've learned over time how to read better :D
@@doremeems this capricio is priceless, it helps a lot with both hands. I'm quite jealous how effortless you have reached high positions. )
Ohhh don't be jealous
It is not a problem for me either) I played A Lot of Schefchik exercises, and Flash scales. Time to practice 🎻🎼❤️
Nice!!!! Happy practicing~~~
played this on 1.5x speed, sounds pretty good!
Ahahaha that must have sounded funny 😆 thanks for watching!
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Hey, was wondering if at 20:56 after sol# mi you considered starting with the second finger already holding/prepared a# for the third run?
I have considered it but somehow it wasn’t very comfortable for my hand. Cheers!
May I ask which violin you own !
I’m using a cut-down (from viola 🤪) Lupot!
This is hard
It’s also very fun :)