3rd Position Etude for Violin

Alright, it's not the most creative name, but this piece has a place in my past that recently resurfaced, and I rather enjoy it. 

My first musical instrument (aside from recorder, which of course every gradeschooler loathes for the sad ineptitude and cheap instruments inflicted upon them en masse) was the violin -- my grandmother was a concert violinist in a former career, and so when I took up violin for primary school orchestra, she was an integral part of my early music education. Thankfully, that included openness to creativity - and so from my earliest music lessons, I was already toying with my own musical ideas (or variations on the ones I had heard). 

By early middle school, we started learning about the 3rd position, which is a fundamental skill for any violinist, but I found the exercises provided in class to be too non-musical for my tastes, so I wrote my own -- this is that piece, untitled when I originally wrote it, although aimed squarely at practicing the shift from first to third and back again. 

Due to a minor but inconvenient hearing deficit caused by childhood surgery (for which I owe the rest of my hearing - a fair trade), I have some mud in the mid-range, which turns out to be fine for me as a solo musician but challenging in a group setting. Towards high school, orchestras began having more substantive expectations for your skill in an ensemble, and I couldn't keep up in that environment, so I went solo. My musical career since has diverged greatly, and it's been far too long since I played my violins. So I had my bows re-haired, and I started practicing, basically from square one all over again.

To that end, I found a tattered manuscript for this piece, barely legible even by my standards, and I decided to transcribe it as an initial practicing goal while the proverbial WD-40 cuts the rust. Maybe you'll enjoy and/or find it useful, too -- at some point when I'm a little more comfortable again, I'll try to remember to come back and record this. For now, I unlocked a core memory and set a concrete goal. That's enough for one day.

A PDF can be found here on my gdrive, along with the MuseScore file for anyone so inclined.