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Day 2 of your cycle· plan suggests this

**Dallas solo video (10–15', from memory, recorded in the hall 09-12): Bach 1001 Adagio + Ysaÿe 3 *or* Barkauskas** (≈12–13' either way) — the second piece is pending your coach. The Bach take doubles as your Aspen ACE track. **Aspen ACE also needs Montgomery and *Filter*** — ready by 15-12, recording dates open. Milestones: **Bach + the chosen Dallas piece from memory by 22-11** (until the coach decides, keep both Ysaÿe and Barkauskas alive, alternating). ***Filter* and Montgomery ready by 15-12.** Montgomery and *Filter* both load the right arm and back: short bursts, Bach between them as the breather.

• 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 28–95: 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
• Bach — Sonata No. 1, BWV 1001, Adagio (Dallas video + Aspen ACE; memorise by 22-11): chord voicing, the line through the ornaments; singing, not heavy. No click 7m
• Quick break 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 solo piece — Ysaÿe 3 *or* Barkauskas (alternate days until your coach decides; then this slot is the chosen one only): from memory, one section per day checked against the score; once a week a full run. Ysaÿe: the recitativo intonation + double-stops, the Allegro con bravura episodes. Barkauskas: performance-mode run of a movement, fix the one spot that slipped 12m
• Once a week, from 16-11 (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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