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Re: End-of-the-Year Community Concert! Are we limited to one piece per performer?
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- 1 yr ago
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Re: Matt Palmer: Virtuoso Guitar Technique @martin yes!!!! I am also readyto sign up for the last performance of the year on December 29th.
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- 1 yr ago
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Re: Carlos Bonell: How To Become A Better Guitarist In 12 Months! @Barney the first photo is from maestro Carlos Bonell’s out-of-print book which he is rewriting. The second photo was from one of the many technical workshops I attended.…
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- 2 yrs ago
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Re: Carlos Bonell: How To Become A Better Guitarist In 12 Months! The Wheel of Perfection by Carlos Bonell. I have also included an example of Barré. You can substitute barré with scales, arpeggios, tremolos, or any piece or technique you are working on.
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- 2 yrs ago
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Re: Carlos Bonell: How To Become A Better Guitarist In 12 Months! @Nigel Thomson The livestream has not started
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- Bill_Young
- 2 yrs ago
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Re: Public Space: Perfecting Musical Expression with Borbála Seres! Hi Martin, Zoom check in is still listed as 9am Pacific but I thought the time has been changed to 11am Pacific. Please confirm. Thanks!
- Bill Young
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- 2 yrs ago
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Re: Borbála Seres: Quick Tips to Improve your Technique and Musical Expression! @Borbala Seres thank you so much for the detailed explanation on how to practice the passage in your response video. My teacher also talks about playing arpeggio as one gesture instead of thinking…
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- 2 yrs ago
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Re: Borbála Seres: Quick Tips to Improve your Technique and Musical Expression! Fantastic, love these selections, especially Mertz’ Elegia. We need a Tonebase produced lesson on this emotion-filled piece. Thank you Martin!
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- 2 yrs ago
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Re: Brouwer on Brouwer: Un Día de Noviembre - Commentary by Mircea Gogoncea On Brouwer's Tonebase lesson on Un Día de Noviembre, Brouwer mentioned that "When writing for film, Brouwer strives to avoid what he refers to as "banalities.…
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- 2 yrs ago
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Re: Sign-Up: Building Left-Hand Finger Independence and Flexibility with Bokyung Byun! Hi Martin, I signed up on day 1 but have not received any confirmation. I think several other people are seeing the same issue. please advise. thanks, Bill
- Bill Young
- Bill_Young
- 2 yrs ago
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Re: PREMIERE: Xuefei Yang Teaches Cavatina by Stanley Myers Would love to see Xuefei sharing her tips in conquering the first few measures - the difficult barre. Those are the most challenging bars of music in the entire piece.
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- 2 yrs ago
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Re: Sign-Up: Improve your Scales in Two Weeks with Eduardo Inestal! Hi Martin, is it possible to view the assignment and feedbacks of previous two-week intensives happened in July & August. I was away from home and didn’t always have an internet connections.…
- Bill Young
- Bill_Young
- 2 yrs ago
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Re: Sign-Up: Increase Legato Playing in Both Hands in Two Weeks with TY! Please sign me up. I will be traveling but will try to check in.
- Bill Young
- Bill_Young
- 2 yrs ago
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Re: Jeffrey McFadden: Fretboard Harmony As a follow-on to Jeffrey McFadden’s excellent & informative Fretboard Harmony webinar yesterday, I would love to have Tonebase invited Dušan Bogdanović to give a webinar on his book Harmony on…
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- 2 yrs ago
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Re: Group 1 @Martin Hi Martin, thanks for the heads up. I just rescheduled my doctor’s appointment on Friday so I can attend the Zoom check-in.
- Bill Young
- Bill_Young
- 2 yrs ago
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Re: Sign-Up: Increase your Left-Hand Fitness with Slurs! Hi Martin, please sign me up. Thanks.
- Bill Young
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- 2 yrs ago
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Re: Xuefei Yang: Mastering Tremolo!
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- 2 yrs ago
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Re: Xuefei Yang: Mastering Tremolo! I have been a big fan of Xuefei since John Williams gave two of his Smallman guitars to the Central Conservatory in Beijing so she could have excellent guitars to play.…
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- 2 yrs ago
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Re: Xuefei Yang: Mastering Tremolo! Fantastic! Can’t wait. Check out Xuefei’s incredible tremolo in Barrios’ Un Sueño en la Floresta she recorded for the Omni Foundation concert a year ago. The piece starts at 25:56. https://youtu.…
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- 2 yrs ago
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Re: Group 1 I have been very busy and late to join the tremolo practice. I finally finished watching the suggested Tonebase tremolo productions by Stephanie Jones, Scott Tennant, Thomas Viloteau,…
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- 2 yrs ago
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Re: Lets discuss about Kashuito Yamashita...lol @Steven Liu I have known Kazuhito for decades and we are friends. I have also met one of his sons. I have picture with him from 30 years ago.
- Bill Young
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- 2 yrs ago
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Re: Dress Rehearsal for the 4th tonebase Community Concert @Martin I will perform Marieta-Mazurka by Francisco Tarrega. Also, there is an omission in Khiem's piece. Khiem will perform Carcassi Op. 60, No. 7 as there are 25 studies in Op. 60.
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- 2 yrs ago
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Re: 4th tonebase Community Concert! Martin, as I mentioned when I signed up, due to a conflict in schedule, I can only participate in the Dress Rehearsal but not the 4th Community Concert. Thank you.
- Bill Young
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- 2 yrs ago
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Re: Shifting vs Lifting – The use of guide fingers Would love to learn how to make the shifting (measures 33-39) easier and with less effort: Excerpt from Prelude No. 1 by Villa-Lobos
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- 2 yrs ago
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Re: Shifting vs Lifting – The use of guide fingers Here is another section with shifting (marked in red) that I need help with. It’s variation 5 from Sor’s famous Op. 9.
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- 2 yrs ago
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