Today

Day 2 of your cycle· plan suggests this

Singing tone, high-position tuning, gentle on the body. A good day after a hard one, or when your back's a bit sore.

• Morning back check
• Physio set (2×10)
• Warm up — open strings, slow full bows, long tones; relaxed, back-aware i 6m
• Scales & arpeggios — 3 octaves in today's key; then slow double-stops (thirds, sixths, octaves) for intonation i 8m
• Left-hand drill — Schradieck or Ševčík op.1, a few patterns, even and relaxed i 4m
• Étude — a sustained-tone / shifting study (Kreutzer 11 or sons filés) for the singing line. Skip if the back or time is tight i 8m
• Ease in — slow whole-bows, shifts into upper positions, tuning against a high-position drone i 4m
• Scheherazade II solo (mm 1–5) — rubato, no click: phrasing, colour, free but in control 18m
• Quick break 3m
• Brahms 1, mvt II (E→end) — phrase shape, bow plan, in-tune singing line at about ♩=84 18m
• Quick break 3m
• Reger op.131b (you play 2nd violin) — the demanding one, so it gets the bulk of the concert time. Slow double-stop / intonation pass on today's duo (rotate I → II → III across the week), then bring the worst spots back up to tempo. Refresh, not relearn; restore your ensemble cues, and run it with your partner when you can. Sit if your back asks. 15m
• Quick break 3m
• One of the easy three (rotate, quick refresh read): Halvorsen Passacaglia (you play violin), Telemann "Gulliver's Travels" (2nd violin), or Leclair Sonata No.5 (1st violin) — play it through and tidy any spot that's drifted since you last performed it. 8m
• Log today's session
• Note how the two pieces went — tuning and expression
• Back check after playing

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