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The Women Composers Challenge Week One
Welcome to our latest community-driven challenge! In this challenge, you are invited to work on music by women composers. Whether it be a historical composer like Catharina Josepha Pratten,…
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What are you working on?
While Martin is on his family leave, several community members have expressed a desire to have a community-driven challenge as a way of connecting and sharing our musical journeys again.…
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Request: Complete Performances for Tutorials
While I appreciate the in-depth analysis provided in many Tonebase tutorials, I'm often left wanting more. Specifically, I'm missing the opportunity to hear a full performance of the piece being…
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Let's Vote for our Next Challenge
Hey Everyone! We have seven wonderful proposals for a new community-driven challenge: Women Composers Studies - choose your own set by any composer Leap Into Spring - find music that in some way…
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New Challenge Ideas?
Hey Everyone! I'd like to propose that we begin another community-driven challenge while Martin is off on his family leave. This time, maybe we could have a more specific theme.…
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RH thumb placement during scales
Hello all! For the last 10 years or so, while playing scales I've practiced resting my RH thumb on a string two strings lower than the one i/m are playing.…
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I Just Discovered Angelo Gilardino
As I have said many times here before, there are so many interesting composers who write for the guitar. So many interesting compositions to explore once you step out of the comfortable confines of…
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Intonation
I would like to open up a discussion on the challenges of keeping chords in tune, especially in higher positions and when there is horizontal stretch across strings or vertical reaches, or,…
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Boijes collection
Hi friends. I used to approach many 19th century composers through the Swedish catalogue “Boijes collection”. I am now unable to find it anymore, has any of you encountered this problem?
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Embarrassing Moments.
I am sure that this topic will resinate with many players as I am sure that everyone, at some stage, has had an embarrassing moment when playing. That moment when you wish there was a hole you could…
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Out of tune guitar Leyenda Tutorial
How can you record a whole video lesson with the guitar horribly out of tune? Aso the left hand fingerings from bar 17 are not correct to her explanation. Thanks
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Lukasz Kuropaczewski
I just wanted to post a big thank you to Tonebase for featuring such a talented guitarist like Lukasz on the website and a really big thank you to Lukasz for giving of his time to help those of us…
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The Joys of playing easy pieces (for those aging fingers and wrists...)
I wonder if my musings on the limitations of making progress resonate with others: The ethos among guitar aficionados and musicians in general seems to follow the motto of the Olympic Games: Cities,…
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Lukasz Kuropaczewski-practice principles lesson
Just finished watching this and I must say it is the best instructional video I’ve ever seen and that is no exaggeration. I agreed with everything he said and his enthusiasm is impressive and also…
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Music school Recommendations!
Hi, does anyone know any good classical guitar program at university/conservatiry? I’m applying for master next year and it would help me a ton if you give some tips! preferably,…
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Help me find a tremolo piece... for guitar
Hello, can anyone suggest a tremolo piece written for guitar (no transcriptions please) in the last 50 to 75 years. No Poncelike fakery, something stylistically 20th or 21st century.…
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More Music Theory, please
Just watched the Demystifying Jazz Theory live program with Jeremy Siskind, really informative. Can we get access to the full program he offers on other Tonebase instruments?…
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Bryan Burns "Classical Guitar Compendium" & "The Guidonian Guitar"
If anyone has used either of these texts, I would be interested in finding out more about their content. How does the Compendium differ from other technique texts?…
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On Mircea's Stretching course
https://app.tonebase.co/guitar/courses/player/mircea-gogoncea-teaches-on-stretching-lh-technique This is great! I've been teaching this to my students for more than 20 years now and i don't know of…
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Blasphemous fingerings to mend Brouwer's mistake in notation for Estudio Simple 2
As part of the great TWI course with @Arturo Castro Nogueras we worked on Left Hand relaxation and one of the tasks was studying over Brouwer's Study n°2.…
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Study with me the trill from Granados' Danza Española n°2 "Oriental" (Kevin Loh's transcription)
In this 30 minute video I explore this bar from Granados' piece Danza Española n°2 by request of @Barney who posted his question on the TWI with Arturo.…
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Reaper issue?
Has anyone in our community had a problem with the audio recording stopping midstream before completing your performance using Reaper? any solution? I am using Windows 11,…
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My First Year
I have just reached the mile stone of learning guitar for a whole year. Whilst I love learning guitar I have to ponder "at what level should I be at after 12 months?…
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Tarrega Anthology
Looking for a good one that covers preludes and major pieces... no tabs. Also not interested in digital downloads. I'm a luddite in that way ;-)
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Thoughts on Technique Books: serie Didáctica and Pumping Nylon
Hi everyone, are you familiar with Carlevaro’s Serie Didáctica or Scott Tennant’s pumping nylon? I’m analyze those two books for my pedagogy class. The areas I want to focus on is the difference…
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