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Hey everyone, I'm a Romanian-German classical guitarist currently studying for my doctorate in music with Scott Tennant in Los Angeles.

I work as a teaching assistant for ethnomusicology at USC Thornton and I love languages, travel and video making!

Join me in one of my tonebase live streams, or message me on the forum!

Joined Fri Sep 11 01:52:12 UTC 2020

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Re: Annotations to your music
@Dean Oh, that could be very helpful, Dean! I am going to try it out tomorrow. Perhaps that option was off before, and I could completely stop the stray marks from happening in the future!…
- Head of Guitar
- Mircea
- 4 yrs ago
- General Discussion
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Re: Tablature
@nathan and @Rodney: hi guys! You might be aware of this already, but just in case you are not, we just held a 5-week "reading music course" on tonebase Live,…
- Head of Guitar
- Mircea
- 4 yrs ago
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Re: solfege
Hi Don! Solfege is, indeed, a very useful skill! That being said, you can absolutely start training it by yourself, without formal training. If you want to use fixed-do solfege,…
- Head of Guitar
- Mircea
- 4 yrs ago
- General Discussion
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Re: Best notation software specifically for classical guitar scores
@Adam Goulet Adam: yes, absolutely. All of these are built-in, and you can also import any kind of graphic symbol (even ones you make yourself) or widely available font to use within your scores and…
- Head of Guitar
- Mircea
- 4 yrs ago
- General Discussion
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Re: Opinions on using a strap to hold the guitar instead of supports.
@Dean oh I would like to know more about this! Did you drill the holes in your guitar yourself? @Mehmet I've been thinking about doing it for years now!…
- Head of Guitar
- Mircea
- 4 yrs ago
- 1
- General Discussion
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Re: Annotations to your music
@Dean Hi Dean! Yes, I do use an actual Apple iPen with 4score. I also find it personally quite ridiculous that I have to pay $100 for a simple stylus - however,…
- Head of Guitar
- Mircea
- 4 yrs ago
- General Discussion
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Re: Love the new Level categorization
Hi @Rajesh ! Very happy you've been enjoying these! Our head of Guitar Content, @Erin , is probably the best person to answer these questions. Erin, do you have any thoughts?
- Head of Guitar
- Mircea
- 4 yrs ago
- General Discussion
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Re: Question about Guitar Support Systems
Hi @Stan ! I also use a footstool, however, I have played around with all kinds of different support systems in the past. Let's answer your questions one by one: No,…
- Head of Guitar
- Mircea
- 4 yrs ago
- General Discussion
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Re: III. Guitar Notation // MAR 3rd
@José Espírito Santo Thank you for that, Jose!
- Head of Guitar
- Mircea
- 4 yrs ago
- Reading Music Course
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CONGRATULATIONS and Forum Tags for Reading Music Course Participants and Graduates!

Hi everyone 🎉🥳 It is my incredible pleasure to extend huge congratulations to everyone who took part in the reading music course! 🤝👑💪 Whether through your assignment submissions,…
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Re: IV. Fingering // MAR 10th
@Takato Umeda Hi Takato! That's a very good question! That's a phrase marking, also known as a legatto marking, under certain circumstances. It means that the notes it encompasses are supposed to…
- Head of Guitar
- Mircea
- 4 yrs ago
- Reading Music Course
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Re: IV. Fingering // MAR 10th
@Colin O'Regan No problem, Colin - these things happen!
- Head of Guitar
- Mircea
- 4 yrs ago
- Reading Music Course
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Re: IV. Fingering // MAR 10th
@Colin O'Regan great job on all of these!!! Thank you for sending them in and sharing with us. There is very little for me to say this on account of how good everything sounds and looks!…
- Head of Guitar
- Mircea
- 4 yrs ago
- Reading Music Course
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Re: IV. Fingering // MAR 10th
@Desi Husband the chart is a great idea! My dad made something like this for me when he was learning guitar with me by sitting in on my lessons when I had just started to learn from a private…
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Re: III. Guitar Notation // MAR 3rd
@Desi Husband 😂 the many advantages of being a member of the tonebase Community!
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- 4 yrs ago
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Re: III. Guitar Notation // MAR 3rd
@Desi Husband hah! That certainly happens a lot, I know this issue from my own experience: you practice something one way, and when you go on stage, you play it a totally different way...…
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- 4 yrs ago
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Re: III. Guitar Notation // MAR 3rd
@José Espírito Santo Hi Jose!! This is perfect, thanks for sending it in! Nothing more for me to say here at all 🎉 the string issue was fixed, and your fingering was flawless! Congratulations!
- Head of Guitar
- Mircea
- 4 yrs ago
- Reading Music Course
- Reported - view
Re: II. Rhythm // FEB 24th
@Paul: hi Paul! Sorry for taking a bit longer to answer this! It fell through the cracks for a couple of days, but I found it 😁 congratulations for these, and thank you for sending in the update!!…
- Head of Guitar
- Mircea
- 4 yrs ago
- Reading Music Course
- Reported - view
Re: II. Rhythm // FEB 24th
@Desi Husband Hi Desi! Sorry, I missed this earlier! It's a bit hard to tell from the angle of the video, but I don't think the angle of your left arm is strange.…
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- Mircea
- 4 yrs ago
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Re: IV. Fingering // MAR 10th
@Marek Tabisz Oh cool! Great - in that case, I think this fingering works very well!
- Head of Guitar
- Mircea
- 4 yrs ago
- Reading Music Course
- Reported - view
Re: IV. Fingering // MAR 10th
@Marek Tabisz Marek, this is a perfectly fine fingering! Great job! 🎉 the only thing that I would personally do differently is play the first E (fourth note) with the 2nd finger rather than with…
- Head of Guitar
- Mircea
- 4 yrs ago
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Re: IV. Fingering // MAR 10th
@JOHN ANDERSON Thank you so much, John!!! Very happy to hear you enjoyed it! And looking forward to seeing some of your exercises, perhaps! 😁
- Head of Guitar
- Mircea
- 4 yrs ago
- Reading Music Course
- Reported - view
Re: III. Guitar Notation // MAR 3rd
@José Espírito Santo Great job on these, Jose! Thanks for sending them in! One thing, since this session was all about fingering, it might make sense to send in video, rather than audio recordings.…
- Head of Guitar
- Mircea
- 4 yrs ago
- Reading Music Course
- Reported - view
Re: III. Guitar Notation // MAR 3rd
@BHASKAR Thank you for posting your update - great job on getting to all of these exercises! 3a: Good job! Unfortunately, I can't tell if you are doing the correct right hand fingering or not,…
- Head of Guitar
- Mircea
- 4 yrs ago
- Reading Music Course
- Reported - view
Re: III. Guitar Notation // MAR 3rd
@Bill Dodd Great job, Bill!!! So good to see your update on here! 3a: On this one, I can't tell whether you are playing with the correct fingering or not, since it's only an audio recording,…
- Head of Guitar
- Mircea
- 4 yrs ago
- Reading Music Course
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