Moving Toward a Goal

Last night I watched Milstein play the Mendelssohn Concerto. It was a DVD of TV broadcasts made in the early ‘60s. Naturally, the playing was riveting.

Afterwards I took out my fiddle. I wanted to ‘get into his skin’ and play with the same velocity and attack.

I must confess, my first attempts were less than encouraging.

I had two choices. Give up, or get my grey matter working, and lay out a strategy for success. Let me tell you, I’d already had a full day of playing on ‘Ratatouille’ and was tired. But what I had listened to got to me.

I wanted it.

So I took it one note at a time. I assembled passages I had difficulty reproducing note by note. I made sure each note had the attack, energy, and color I was looking for. As I warmed to the challenge I began placing notes next to each other, but only as close as I could ‘think’ them first.

Low and behold, the ‘form’ I was looking for began to emerge.

Sometimes I thought I had a passage completely mastered, but when I placed into context I ran amok once more. I backed up. I raised the bar on my consciousness and resolve.

Then I moved forward once again.

Did I attain everything I wanted last night? No, I didn’t. But I did move decisively toward the goal. I wanted All of the last movement, my body and mind gave me two-thirds. There is, after all, a time when everything you give is met with diminishing returns. That is when you put the violin aside, and rest.

One of our subscribers is moving to another kind of goal. Being on a rather tight budget – she’s in college – she is putting aside money each month so she can purchase the ‘Kreutzer for Violin Mastery’ course.

There may be others doing the same thing I don’t know about. Today I’m going to help them reach their goal much sooner.

For a limited time, I’m reducing the fee on Volumes 1 and 2, and I’m making them available separately.

In short, there’s no better time than now to get started on the program that will give you the technical tools to fulfill your highest violin aspirations.

Come get started on the course that is transforming the playing of hundreds of violinists around the world.

All the best,

Clayton Haslop

P.S. Watching Milstein play reaffirmed the value of all that is found in the course – the relaxed, efficient fundamental techniques that allow truly special sounds to come out of a violin.