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Re: Week 4: "Samba Strings Showcase" HVL Prelude no 5 Final submission Trying to play it slower especially in Section A. The thing I realize is I'm bound to make a mistake somewhere so I decided to enjoy and live with it.
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Re: Week 4: "Samba Strings Showcase" @Barney Thanks again for the suggestion. I just had my weekly lesson and my teacher said the same thing. @Steve Pederson @Eric Phillips Thanks!
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Re: Week 4: "Samba Strings Showcase" HVL Prelude no 5 Was practicing it in 4 different sections. Rather than posting 4 videos, I stitched them up. This is the first time for this piece that I got a youtube copyright,…
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Re: Week 4: "Samba Strings Showcase" @Calin Lupa very nice! It takes a lot of focus and stamina for this piece. Well done!
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Re: Week 4: "Samba Strings Showcase" @Steve Pederson thanks! This is a really interesting piece the more I delve into it. John Williams has a version out there where he played it really fast and I can imagine Villa-Lobos play it that…
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Re: Week 4: "Samba Strings Showcase" @Jack Stewart not just the microphone, the camera as well. I cannot imagine the stress those concert players have when facing real audiences.
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Re: What Guitar do you play? @Blaise Laflamme yes. It is a 7 brace Friederich hommage model.
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Re: If you could master the technique of any guitarist, living or dead, who would it be and why? So hard to choose man. From my limited exposure, I will pick 1. Xuefei Yang - for her imagination and execution on what a guitar can sound like. The sounds and melody she extracted from her guitar in…
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Re: Week 4: "Samba Strings Showcase" @Ron Thanks Ron! Yes, he had put in the sagework magnets and sealed up the box now. Not much done on the fretboard and headstock yet. He just went on a short holiday with his girlfriend.…
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Re: Week 4: "Samba Strings Showcase" @Andre Bernier well done. Not sure if it is intentional but the melody does sound a bit cut. I suspect it maybe your right hand accidentally cutting the melody when you place your fingers back on too…
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Re: Week 4: "Samba Strings Showcase" @Spare Machine welcome back and glad your finger healed. I can relate to it, sometimes just being able to play again is a fantastic feeling as staying off a while. Keep at it!
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Re: Week 4: "Samba Strings Showcase" @Marilyn Blodget Thanks Marilyn. I read it as F natural but still played it as F# haha. Thanks for pointing it out, I really didn't noticed at all.
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Re: Week 4: "Samba Strings Showcase" @Marilyn Blodget Thanks Marilyn! This is weird about measure 7, I'm using the Zigante edition and it says it is an F natural.
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Re: Week 4: "Samba Strings Showcase" @Barney Thanks for pointing it out! Really appreciate it.
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Re: Week 4: "Samba Strings Showcase" @Spare Machine Thanks! Sometimes I thought I was already playing very expressively or in tempo with the metronome but once you hit record and take away the metronome your fingers just do its own…
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Re: Week 4: "Samba Strings Showcase" @Marilyn Blodget I just listened your previous version 2-3mins ago and now this. I already thought the previous part was beautiful but this is even better!
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Re: Week 4: "Samba Strings Showcase" @Jack Stewart wonderful progress Jack! The beginning is sounding really good already, some of your musical ideas are very apparent. Keep at it!
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Re: Week 4: "Samba Strings Showcase" @Eric Phillips I think it is already very nice. Not sure where I read it but sometimes your body has improved but your brain hasn't register that improvement yet.…
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Re: Week 4: "Samba Strings Showcase" @Marilyn Blodget TBeatiful tone as usual. Great start to it!
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Re: Week 4: "Samba Strings Showcase" Section C Still very rough but will try to work on this for the remaining of the week and see how it goes.
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Re: Week 4: "Samba Strings Showcase" HVL Prelude 5 i have gotten all my fingering downs and how I want it to sound. I think I've progressed somewhat but when I tried to record, my fingers somehow became stiffer.…
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Re: Week 3: "Composer's Corner: Exploring Villa-Lobos" @Jack Stewart Already made great progress. Some of the shifts are really difficult especially some of the jumps, maybe trying using a guide finger? Like Dale said probably another week or so will do.
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Re: Week 3: "Composer's Corner: Exploring Villa-Lobos" @Dale Needles Thank you so much, I've sent you a message. Thanks!
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Re: Week 3: "Composer's Corner: Exploring Villa-Lobos" @Barney thats really good advice. I re look the score and indeed mis read some parts. Thanks.
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Re: What Guitar do you play? @Steve Pederson and today it is finally closed up its by Giovanni Tacchi from Florence.
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