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Re: Avoiding Exponential Left-Hand Tension with Arturo Castro Nogueras Excellent subject. Looking forward to this TWI.
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Re: Martin Zimny: Improve Your Sight-Reading Skills! Luise Walker Das tägliche Training (Daily Training) recommended by Martin. $13.44 https://www.boosey.com/shop/prod/Walker-Luise-Das-tagliche-Training/2547003
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- 3 mths ago
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Re: Group 1 Excellent advice about the thumb relaxation and its impact on the rest of the arpeggios. Such a crucial element and rarely mentioned or taught! ¡Mil gracias Arturo!
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- 5 mths ago
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- Improving Your Right-Hand Arpeggios with Arturo
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Re: Record Yourself in the Practice Room and Accelerate Your Progress with Linda Chesis @Chelsea Tanner thank you. Excellent topic and live stream.
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- 7 mths ago
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Re: Scott Tennant: Mastering the Art of Practice Bravissimo, maestro. That was the best lesson on practicing. Please invite Scott back as often as possible.
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- 8 mths ago
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Re: Group 1 @Peter Graneis The aa-mm cross-string trill (referred to by René Izquierdo as "the sweep") is one of the earliest cross-string trills I learned from Alice Artzt,…
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- 8 mths ago
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- Improve Your Two-String Trills With Peter Graneis
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Re: Carlos Bonell: Tips for adult learners! That’s Adagio, the second movement of the famous Aranjuez concerto by Joaquin Rodrigo.
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- 1 yr ago
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Re: tonebase x Koblenz Guitar Festival: A Spectacular Collaboration I would love to go to Koblenz but not this year. I have been in Europe for 2 weeks, studying guitar in person with a teacher here in Bosnia. Will fly home on the day Koblenz starts.…
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- 1 yr ago
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Re: Arranging for Guitar: Gracias a La Vida by Violeta Parra Thanks for reminding me. I saw Manny played this at a livestream before the lesson was available on Tonebase. It is the best arrangement I have seen for this piece.…
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- 1 yr ago
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Re: Let's Talk Guitar Supports! (MOVED TO FEB 1st) @Stefano you are welcome, Stefano. I was first introduced to GuitarLift by Andrea de Vitis. He flies around the world by just attaching the GuitarLift to his case.…
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- 1 yr ago
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Re: Let's Talk Guitar Supports! (MOVED TO FEB 1st) @Stefano I have been using a GuitarLift for a few years. I lost one after an ensemble rehearsal. I suspected that it fell off while riding piggyback on my guitar case.…
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- 1 yr ago
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Re: Let's Talk Guitar Supports! (MOVED TO FEB 1st) You can buy adhesive suction cup protectors, available from Strings By Mail or other stores. I use ErgoPlay, GuitarLift, Embracing Guitar. These are all suction- cup-based guitar supports.…
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- 1 yr ago
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Re: Group 1 This is the mother of all base damping etude. The article from Classical Guitar Magazine illustrates how to practice the thumb alone as suggested by Sanel: https://classicalguitarmagazine.…
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- 1 yr ago
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- Staccato, Portato, or Legato with Sanel Redžić
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Re: Alfredo Escande: The Left Arm in the Carlevaro Technique! @Blaise Laflamme You are so lucky to have studied with Alvaro. Pierri used to teach at McGill University in Montreal. He has quite a few Friederich guitars.…
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- 1 yr ago
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Re: Group 1 @Barney staccato with the RH is the most important techniques for articulation. The Romeros are a big advocate for that. RH staccato will help you with planting,…
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- 1 yr ago
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- Staccato, Portato, or Legato with Sanel Redžić
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Re: Let's Talk Guitar Supports! (MOVED TO FEB 1st) @Eric Phillips hahaha, Eric. @Ashley (Ash) Lucero should thank you for generating interests for her upcoming livestream.
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- 1 yr ago
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Re: Let's Talk Guitar Supports! (MOVED TO FEB 1st) @Ashley (Ash) Lucero . I was only responding to Eric’s question.
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- 1 yr ago
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Re: On Articulation - Staccato, Portato, or Legato with Sanel Redžić! Just finished watching the 5 fantastic videos. Thank you very much Sanel. I never worked on the Brouwer etudes before but will try to apply the three different articulations with Estudio No. 1.
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- 1 yr ago
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Re: Let's Talk Guitar Supports! @Eric Phillips Eric, I have no idea. I have only replaced the suction cups and not the pad. I just glued the foam pad back. I started putting 2 pieces of grip strips (one on each leg) for slip…
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- 1 yr ago
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Re: Let's Talk Guitar Supports! @Eric Phillips I have the same issue with the foam pad coming off on my ErgoPlay. You can buy a replacement foam pad from Strings By Mail for $2.99. I have also bought replacement suction cups for my…
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- 1 yr ago
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Re: SIGN-UP: On Articulation - Staccato, Portato, or Legato with Sanel Redžić ! Martin, please sign me up. Thank you.
- Bill Young
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- 1 yr ago
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Re: End-of-the-Year Community Concert! @Jack Stewart thank you, Jack. I had a chance to work with Rene Uzquierdo on Un día de noviembre, in masterclass and private lessons. I was not familiar with Carlos Fariñas’ Canción Triste until I…
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- 1 yr ago
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Re: WEEK 3: Is anybody out there ... practicing? I thought @Khiem Nguyen was the first one to sign up to perform in the December 29th concert under a different thread, before the official sign up was posted.
- Bill Young
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- 1 yr ago
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- End-Of-The-Year Concert Challenge!
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Re: End-of-the-Year Community Concert! The first Canción Triste I learned was by Francisco Calleja published in 1931, and recorded by Vicente Gomez at much faster tempo. I haven’t touched that in years.…
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- 1 yr ago
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Re: End-of-the-Year Community Concert! @martin I would like to perform two Cuban pieces: 1. Un día de noviembre (Brouwer) 2. Canción triste (Fariñás) if the answer is yes, I will start leaning the sad song.
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- 1 yr ago
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