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I had another 30 minutes lesson today. I have a subscription to trala.com, giving me four 30 minutes lessons a month. There are many good teachers there (and I tried many:) ), but I keep coming back to two of them. The lesson was on Dankla's Bolero, but since I did not practice it much, I did not show much improvement:)) (with, perhaps, the exception of vibrato). We kind of played the "Simon's says" game. He was showing me how to play a phrase, and I was supposed to play exactly the same way. It was fun:).

I spend some time again improvising with the vibrato and then begin to practice a second piece for the string orchestra. It took work! Well, it would be easy as a solo piece, but playing with an exact rhythm and metronome was challenging for me. The next step will be playing it in tempo and with the orchestra, but unfortunately, I did not find a good recording for this piece yet (there are many, but the quality of the sound is not stellar:)) )