The Attacca Journal
A living record of violin practice, repertoire, lessons, listening and learning.
I'm Anne-Marie Legault.
This is my public music notebook — a record of what I'm practising, studying, listening to and learning as I continue developing as a violinist.
Some of it starts on paper: marked scores, practice logs, lesson notes, lists of recordings and questions I want to bring back to my next lesson.
This site is where those pages become an archive.
Built and maintained by Anne-Marie Legault — a strategist, founder, and adult violin student based in Ottawa — the journal is for anyone curious about the unglamorous, deliberate work of learning an instrument. It is a record of process, not performance.
The same belief in deliberate practice shapes my work as a strategist: observe carefully, make the right correction, and keep moving into what comes next.
I'm a student, not a violin teacher. These are my notes, my process and my understanding as it develops. This is not intended as professional music instruction.
The Name
Attacca
In music, attacca means to continue directly into what comes next — to move from one movement into the following one without pausing.
That idea fits this project.
One étude into another. One lesson into the next. One correction into tomorrow's practice.