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Lágrima - Francisco Tárrega
After learning 2 Tarrega pieces in the last monthly challenge, I decided to learn one more Tarrega piece, the famous Lágrima. I know this is a very famous piece,…
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Fantasia XXXI by Francesco Canova da Milano
When I started studying classical guitar, I was obsessed with anything Julian Bream ever played. I remember listening to his album "The Woods So Wild" over and over again.…
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Sor - Op 2 No 3 Andantino
This is a piece by Sor that I love, but I don't hear it played too often. It has good length, nice contrast between the sections, a strong melody, and very elegant voice leading.…
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Mauro Giuliani - Le Romarin Op 46 No 5
Here is a piece that I discovered and worked on during the 19th Century Music Challenge with Hannah Murphy. I then performed it in a masterclass with Emmanuel Sowicz.…
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7 Ejercicios Previos - Abel Carlevaro
I was planning to practice Abel Carlevaro's Microestudios, but the version I bought came with 7 "Preliminary Exercises". I am a "start with page 1" type of person,…
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Evocacion Jose Luis Merlin
This weekend I will start practicing Evocacion. Any tip is welcome. Aim is to post first video on Sunday. Attached the video that inspired me.
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Sinfonia - from Cantata BWV156
After listening to Eric's performance in the last community challenge, I really wanted to play this piece myself. It is a really beautiful piece, but there were a few stretches that were quite…
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Milonga, Danza de los Altos Cerros and Zapateado until April 8th!
Hello everybody! Hope you're doing good. So I plan to post everyday from now until April 8th this set of pieces like if it were a concert (kinda like Steve Goss' performance practice),…
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Emma's Practice Diary - Bach Gavotte 1 & 2
Hello, here is my first entry for the practice diary. I am learning the Bach gavottes 1, and 2 . Technically are achievable for me and if good I will enter the challenge for the concert with this…
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2022-03-13 Recuerdos de la Alhambra
I'm still practicing Recuerdos. I managed to reach around 120 BPM for each thumb note. My goal would be 130/135 BMP, not more. At that point I could focus on overall musicality and tone,…
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2022-03-12 Asturias Practice
I watched the lesson by Ana Vidovic on tonebase, as motivation for finishing learning Asturias and practicing it further.…
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Granada de Isaac Albeniz
Hola a todos. By the challenge of transcriptions I wanted already to begin with a practice diary on Granada. NOW I DO !!! I did today two recordings, one of only sound (uploaded in the Week 4 of…
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Cadiz by Albeniz
I have been practising this for the Spanish music challenge. Not very happy with it but now is all memorized. I will go back now to slow practice in the difficult passages,…
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Gaspar Sanz - Folias
After last month's community challenge, I decided to practice one more Gaspar Sanz piece. This one had a stronger "vibe" of dance music than Españoleta, the tempo was faster,…
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Lob Der Thranen - Don's practice diary
Came across this piece performed by Petrit Ceku and immediately I knew I just had to learn it. Was happy to find there is a actually a lesson by Petrit on tonebase.…
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Nora's practice diary "Recuerdos de la Alhambra"
Hi Martin (and Emma, Blaise,etc I already know some of you guys !), I am struggling with recuerdos and Tremolo since March 21, and this is a great challenge and opportunity which I want to join.…
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Emma’s practice diary: learning tremolo
I will use this diary to record my progress with the tremolo. I have started with very slow practice: planting and making the a m i sound exactly the same. This is a long run objective.…
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Diary routine - Technique, studies and repertoire
Hi everyone, I am a methodic student (always amateur) and I use many ways to keep my focus and progression. From Google Sites I manage a personal site where I have a Google Form (diary tasks),…
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Bach: Jesus Joy of Man's Desiring / R Foster
I sort of backed my way into working on this piece. Martin had mentioned he was working on the David Russell transcription. I have the Rick Foster transcription (Parkening Plays Bach) and was curious…
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River Once - Roni Glaser - movement 2
It's about time I learnt to play this piece I wrote/have been writing. Maybe if I document it here I'll do better at learning it.🤔🧙♂️ Here's a video of the current state of affairs.…
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Jesu Joy O Man's Desiring - Kevin's Practice Diary
I want to do this piece because it's beautiful and up until this year, I never considered it a Christmas tune. This would be my first actual Christmas tune I've learned on Classical Guitar.…
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LAGRIMA Kevin's Practice Diary
H there, I decided to journal my experience walking through the "Lagrima in 7days" tutorial by Thomas Viloteau. I have been looking for a good technique for learning new music and I think this is a…
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Sor Op 21 Les Adieux
I obviously love the music of Fernando Sor, but I haven't yet played any of his longer pieces. I thought this might be a good one to start with, as it seems within my technical abilities.…
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Ballet by Ponce
I have been preparing this piece for the second community concert for about 3 weeks. This is the recording of the first take, and I failed the final of the second part! which is easy by the way.…
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