Learning Bach from harmonic pillars first
I start learning some Bach partita and sonata pieces and asked my teacher if we could focus on learning the harmonic pillars first instead of going in note-by-note details. I hate going through notes by note in Bach as I need to strategically manouver my fingerings to hit the chords correctly while she said oh vibrate here and there oh go faster with the bow and slow down here, it’s very overwhelming!!
She seemed perplexed and said she never learned it that way. Since she also has a piano training I tried to explain that is the way I learn piano pieces by getting the idea of chords progression first and filling in the details later. She said piano is different, well I am not a pro but Bach pieces surely sound very chord-y if that’s the word.
Anyway out of curiosity, is my request to learn Bach violin pieces from harmonic pillars so unconventional ?