Today

Day 35 of your cycle· plan suggests this

Little or no playing. Use it on heavy pit days or when your back's a bit sore. Protecting your back protects every audition. This is also where the winter pieces get their light seed touches — dropped first if the back or time is tight.

• Morning back check
• Extra physio — your set + the next step on the reconditioning ladder (check it with your physio first)
• Score study — mark phrasings and bowings, plan the trouble spots for your next hard day (no instrument) 20m
• Mental practice — silently run your hardest excerpt in your head: fingerings and bow plan (no click, no instrument) 15m
• Walk — 20–30 minutes, reset your posture
• Ysaÿe No. 3 "Ballade" — re-learn, not polish (the recording was ~5 yrs ago): re-finger the opening recitativo, or read a bravura episode slowly. Reference the old recording, don't lean on it 12m
• Montgomery — Rhapsody No. 1 — the con fuoco bariolage (mm 28–95) in short bursts; isolate the G-string harmonic so it speaks every time 12m
• Roumain — Filter (2017) — the groove pattern + the "filter" bow technique (bow travels toward/away from the bridge); drill the effects separately 10m
• Project-prep touch — a short refresh of an upcoming paid project's rep (only if one starts in the next 2–4 days). Pit sitting counts as load — keep this off a hard day 15m
• Log today's session — mark it as recovery, low effort
• Back check

or just log it →