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Re: Week 2: Sharing the Journey @Steve Price Thanks Steve, yes I heard it when I put my headphones on. Very annoying. I tried a new rig with my Iphone to eliminate the syncing audio to video step.…
- Michael Shirk
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- 20 hrs ago
- Fresh Start Challenge
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Re: Week 2: Sharing the Journey Video 2, my attempt of Tiento Antiguo by Joaquin Rodrigo, Bars 34 to End, this is such a beautiful piece of music, I only hope I can do it justice in the end.…
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Re: Week 2: Sharing the Journey @Eric Phillips Nice Eric, Sor always starts easy and manages to confound later in the piece. This is a fairly complex piece, you clearly have a good start. BTW, I like the sound you are producing.…
- Michael Shirk
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- 4 days ago
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Re: Week 2: Sharing the Journey Hello all, I have always wanted to play something by Rodrigo but found most of his work beyond my reach. While I was alphabetizing my music I found this piece that I collected many years ago and…
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- 5 days ago
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- Fresh Start Challenge
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Re: How important are the livestreams for you? I find live streams interesting and relevant. I can always glean some new information from them. As stated in other posts, I watch mostly replays which allows me to fast forward through the…
- Michael Shirk
- mgshirk
- 10 days ago
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- Discussion of the Week!
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Re: How to get "Drop D" to stay in tune IMHO, the best way I found, is tuning the E to A first, which is much lower then D and then bringing it back up to D. This relaxes the tension in the string and stabilizes it before bringing it back…
- Michael Shirk
- mgshirk
- 3 mths ago
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- General Discussion
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Re: WEEK 1: What we've learned!!! @Eric Phillips Bravo Eric, your phrasing and articulation on this piece is excellent.
- Michael Shirk
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- 4 mths ago
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- End of the Year Challenge: Your Progress!
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Re: If you could master the technique of any guitarist, living or dead, who would it be and why? I have to say for me, no one has influenced my playing more then Marco Tamayo. The ease in which he plays such complicated passages so beautiful is astounding to me.…
- Michael Shirk
- mgshirk
- 8 mths ago
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- Discussion of the Week!
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Re: Who are the guitarists that you think more people should know about? I thought I would throw one more in here, Jack and Elle Davisson from Palo Alto, CA, brother and sister these kids can play their butts off. Both will be forces in the guitar world if they keep at it…
- Michael Shirk
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- 8 mths ago
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- Discussion of the Week!
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Re: Who are the guitarists that you think more people should know about? I found this young lady on Shani Inbar on facebook, and find her playing flawless and full of fire. She has a youtube channel, if you have not heard her give her a try.
- Michael Shirk
- mgshirk
- 8 mths ago
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- Discussion of the Week!
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Re: Week 1: Etude Entrée! @Blaise Laflamme I’ll be playing the full pieces. Right now just spot practicing and memorizing. Should have more next week.
- Michael Shirk
- mgshirk
- 10 mths ago
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- The Etude Extravaganza!
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Re: Week 1: Etude Entrée! @Eric Phillips thanks Eric, would’ve loved to play a Barrios study, but have to go real easy on the barre’s.
- Michael Shirk
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- 10 mths ago
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- The Etude Extravaganza!
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Re: Week 1: Etude Entrée! Decided to do 3 Etudes for the next 3 weeks with the goal of increasing speed without increasing tension. I picked these 3 for the lack of barre's. I am nursing a injured index finger which makes…
- Michael Shirk
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- 10 mths ago
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- The Etude Extravaganza!
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Re: Week 1: Etude Entrée! @Blaise Laflamme Ah the scythes remorseless swing, a long way from Carcassi. Had to look them up and give a listen.
- Michael Shirk
- mgshirk
- 10 mths ago
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- The Etude Extravaganza!
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Re: Week 1: Etude Entrée! @Steve Pederson ah, Steve. I Have the carcass I one on the stand ready to play. You beat me to it.
- Michael Shirk
- mgshirk
- 10 mths ago
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- The Etude Extravaganza!
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Re: Week 4: Tango Tempest I started out on this challenge with good intentions, but early in the first week I developed an injury on my left index finger tip joint preventing me from performing any barre's.…
- Michael Shirk
- mgshirk
- 10 mths ago
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- The Song and Dance Challenge
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Re: "a" finger nail shape @Blaise Laflamme Blaise, I saw this video before and thought it was interesting. I found it to be a hassle folding the wet dry paper around the strings the way he does it in the video.…
- Michael Shirk
- mgshirk
- 11 mths ago
- General Discussion
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Re: "a" finger nail shape For what it’s worth I once saw a video with Tatyana Ryzhkova I think, explain how to get the proper angle to file your nails. Place all fingers on the strings .…
- Michael Shirk
- mgshirk
- 11 mths ago
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- General Discussion
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Re: Week 1: Rhythmic Revelations @Marilyn Blodget Marilyn, beautiful piece, especially his transcription. I saw him at a bar in Sacramento many years ago. I believe I have this transcription somewhere in my music.
- Michael Shirk
- mgshirk
- 11 mths ago
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- The Song and Dance Challenge
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Re: Week 1: Rhythmic Revelations @Eric Phillips wow that is fast. I guess thats why he’s a professional.
- Michael Shirk
- mgshirk
- 11 mths ago
- The Song and Dance Challenge
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Re: Week 1: Rhythmic Revelations @joosje thanks Joosje, I feel a bit faster will do it justice. If not can always slow it down.
- Michael Shirk
- mgshirk
- 11 mths ago
- The Song and Dance Challenge
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Re: Week 1: Rhythmic Revelations @martin I just re-read your entry, are you saying chatGPT wrote the above. That's scary.
- Michael Shirk
- mgshirk
- 11 mths ago
- The Song and Dance Challenge
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Re: Week 1: Rhythmic Revelations @martin Ah to have young nimble fingers again, and without the music, I have no idea what notes you left out. So I didn't miss them at all. Martin, I rather enjoyed the explanation of your epiphany.…
- Michael Shirk
- mgshirk
- 11 mths ago
- The Song and Dance Challenge
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Re: Week 1: Rhythmic Revelations @Eric Phillips Sounds good, sound very challenging tempo wise. For me these are the types of pieces that can have the tendency to start to fast and then half way through it you realize,…
- Michael Shirk
- mgshirk
- 11 mths ago
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- The Song and Dance Challenge
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Re: Week 1: Rhythmic Revelations @Calin Lupa That's a cool piece of music, well done.
- Michael Shirk
- mgshirk
- 11 mths ago
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- The Song and Dance Challenge
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