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✋ How do you decide your fingerings?
Every score we play is really two decisions deep: the notes, and the hundred small choices about which finger, which string, which position gets us through them.…
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Week 4: Play us out 🎉
We're closing out Summer Sessions with a Watch Party, so post your performance video here to be featured. Doesn't have to be perfect, just yours. Whether you've been at it all month or you're only…
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Week 3: Let's hear it 🎥
Got something you can put on tape? Post a video or audio of what you're playing this summer, rough edges welcome. And leave a kind word or a tip on someone else's take while you're here.…
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Week 2: What's on your music stand? 🎶
The Summer Sessions thread rolls on. Share whatever you've got in progress: a clip, a rough take, or just a note on what's clicking and what's fighting you. New here? No catching up required.…
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🔥 The first ten minutes — how do you warm up?
Before the real work starts, there is that first stretch at the instrument, and everyone treats it differently. Some run scales and slurs like clockwork, some noodle until the hands wake up,…
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Week 1: Play Whatever You Love ☀️🎸
Summer's here. Longer evenings, slower days, and hopefully a little more time with the guitar in your hands. This one's wide open. No set piece, no required technique, no weekly checklist.…
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👩🏫 A teacher, or on your own?
So much guitar learning now happens alone — a screen, a library of lessons, and your own two ears as the only feedback in the room. Some of us have never sat across from a teacher,…
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⏱️ You and the metronome — what's the real story?
Speed is the thing everyone wants and almost no one talks about honestly. Most of us have a method — nudge the tempo up, back off, creep forward again — and most of us have also hit the wall where…
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🎧 What has recording yourself taught you?
The camera and the microphone are honest in a way our practice-room ears are not. Plenty of us record for lessons, for challenges, or just to hear where a piece really stands,…
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🤚 Let's talk about nails
Nails are the most personal piece of equipment a classical guitarist owns, and no two players shape them the same way. The sound that comes out is decided in the half-second of contact between nail,…
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🏁 When is a piece actually "finished"?
What does it actually mean to finish a piece? Six weeks of Unfinished Business just wrapped, and that question is worth sitting with. Some players call it done when they can play it through cleanly…
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🎼 Bach on guitar — where do you stand?
Hey tonebuddies! Bach didn't write for the modern classical guitar. The repertoire we play is some combination of: 🪕 Lute originals (BWV 995, BWV 996, 997, 998, 999, 1000,…