Right, so, oddly enough, I’m in a rather decent mood. I guess I’m still on my happy high from Thursday. Finally did the challenge against Rebbecca. Guess who won? That would be me! Yes, no longer am I behind her, forced to let an inferior player be ahead of me! I am now second chair! I mean, she wasn’t too bad. Between her, Lynn, and me, we’re about even in playing skills. But my technique is better than hers, since that’s what I work on in my lessons so often. BUt I can’t believe how easy it was. I thought the song would be easy, in such a simple key. But she kept playing F sharps, even though it was in C major. Her piece for me to play was pretty easy. It was in b flat, 3/8 time. I think I sped a bit on it, but that didn’t matter. And now, well next week really, I’m going to challenged Abby. I am sick of letting a truly inferior player be ahead of me, and be concert master! Never! I already have my song, and I have concert master in the bag. It consists of shifting while playing, from third to first to fifth and back to third. She can’t shift at all. Before she ever plays something, she has finger up all the way from first position. On this particular piece (that I’m going to challenge her with) I can tune by ear the first note. I don’t know what the deal it, with lower positions I have trouble having perfect tuning, but for some reason the really high notes in high position, I can get those in tune by ear. And, luckily, Lynn is going to be challenging Rebbecca. So I don’t have to worry about her challenging me back. Lynn has my back, we’ve made a pact. She’s a junior, so when I get concert master and if she makes it up to second chair, she’s not going to challenge me for concert master, since it’s my senior year. But she’s a shoe in next year for concert master. There is no competition for it, the only other junior playing violin is George, and he’s not all to good at it.
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