Viola lesson recap: 22 March 2011

First lesson in three weeks -- missed one lesson on account of going to Chicago for Drupalcon, and a second on account of March break. Didn't get a chance to practice anywhere near as much as I would have liked in the interim -- locked my practice materials in the car while in Chicago, and I spent March break glued to the coverage of the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake when I wasn't peeling the kids off of the walls. While I haven't improved a lot in the past weeks, I haven't lost much either; I was surprised how easily many of the songs in the book came back to me when I've been playing nothing but scales and tunes from memory all week.

To work on for next week: slurs (still), starting in on the G string (woot!) and bringing the fourth finger into play (double woot!) Things are really starting to get to the point where you have to stretch for notes now, and while the challenge is fun, I'm still left with the feeling that things would be much easier if my fingers were just a millimetre or two longer....

Airports near Sault Ste Marie

I recently compiled a list of the airports within reasonable driving distance from here. Given that a bit of a drive can make a huge difference in price when it comes to flying out of regional airports, other folks could probably find this useful.

( Probably of interest only to folks in Northern Ontario or Northern Michigan... )