Corelli "Pastorale" from the Christmas Concerto

[avaldes]

I got into a local Ren-Baroque ensemble to try something different. I am doing the first violin part of this Corelli piece.

[mrmando]

1) Too fast. Let it breathe!
2) Lighten up your pick strokes on beat 3 of each triplet. Right now you're hitting the first and third notes in each triplet with equal force.
3) Anytime you have a quarter note followed by an eighth, as you do in three of the four triplets in the first bar, try treating the quarter note as a dotted eighth with tremolo, followed by a 16th-note rest, followed by a single stroke on the eighth note.