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Day 9 of your cycle· plan suggests this

**Dallas solo video (10–15', from memory, recorded in the hall 09-12) — program pending.** Candidates: **Bach 1001 Adagio, Ysaÿe 3, Barkauskas, Račiūnas *Sonata-fantazija*** (your coach's suggestion). **Aspen ACE musts: Bach, Montgomery, *Filter*.** Montgomery and *Filter* every Solo day; **Bach now lives on the Concerto day** (its own regular slot); the three Dallas candidates rotate through two slots here. Milestones: **decide the Dallas program by 31-10** (the application opens 01-11, and memory needs the time) → **Bach + the chosen Dallas piece from memory by 09-11** (before the 10–22-11 orchestra block) (until you decide, the three candidates rotate). ***Filter* and Montgomery ready by 15-12.** Montgomery and *Filter* both load the right arm and back: short bursts with a real break between them.

• 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; then slow double-stops and chords; harmonics on the G string (Montgomery's G4) i 8m
• Left-hand drill — Schradieck or Ševčík op.1, even and relaxed i 4m
• Ease in — three-string bariolage on open strings, slow then building; a few sul pont / ordinario bow-placement changes i 4m
• Montgomery (Aspen ACE, ready by 15-12) — rotate the work: the con fuoco bariolage (mm 29–95: G–D–A evenness, every G4 harmonic speaking, *wild!* ff at m.59) in short bursts with a metronome ladder · the opening double-stops and harmonics (mm 1–13) · the con sord / sul pont / tremolo close (m.116 → end). One memory section a day, checked against the score 14m
• Quick break — stand, shake out the bow arm, reset posture 3m
• Filter (Aspen ACE, ready by 15-12) — the groove pattern at a ladder toward ♩=140, rock-solid accents; the "filter" bow (toward/away from the bridge) as its own drill; the free cadenza effects (gliss, wild vibrato, sul pont, trills) practised separately, then placed. Repetitive, so once the pattern is owned, memory comes fast. Set to today's goal ♩=100
• Quick break 3m
• Rotate: Mozart 39/i (mm 1–14, the Adagio intro: dotted weight, runs placed) → Brahms op. 51/1, i (→ m. 33: intensity without forcing) → Schumann 2 Scherzo mm 1–54 on weeks it didn't get an Endurance-day turn 7m
• Dallas candidate A — rotation Ysaÿe 3 → Barkauskas → Račiūnas *Sonata-fantazija*: today's first piece in the rotation. Ysaÿe: recitativo intonation + double-stops, the Allegro con bravura episodes. Barkauskas: performance-mode run of a movement, fix the one spot that slipped. Račiūnas (new, ~10'): map it (fingerings, bowings, structure) section by section. Memory work only on the piece(s) you're leaning towards 10m
• Dallas candidate B — the next piece in the same rotation (so each candidate gets two of every three Solo days). Once you've decided the program, A + B are both the chosen piece (or the chosen piece + Bach review) 10m
• Once a week, from 09-11 (skip before): timed run of the Dallas solo program (Bach + the chosen piece), from memory, phone recording. Check the total lands 10–15' and listen back to the first minute like a jury would
• Log today's session — which pieces, how long, how hard (1–10), memory stage of each
• Note the best moment of the day and the one spot to fix next time
• Back check after playing

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