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Re: Sous les toits - Michel Dalle Ave
A very beautiful ballad and performance. 👏
- Dale_Needles
- 4 days ago
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Re: 🌊 Your tremolo, honestly
@martin I agree with @Barney and @Ron that a tremelo track would be good but my preference would be to have it be broad so that participants could select any tremelo piece they choose.…
- Dale_Needles
- 13 days ago
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Re: Preludio de Adios - Alfonso Montes
Very beautifully and masterfully played.
- Dale_Needles
- 1 mth ago
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Re: 🧱 How do you build a practice session?
Good discussion. For me I have a very structured routine of six 30 minute sets of practice per day for a total of three hours. The first set is focused on warm up and selected exercises from…
- Dale_Needles
- 1 mth ago
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Re: Week 4: Play us out 🎉
@Ernesto Very nicely performed. This is one of favorite Villa-Lobos Etudes and while I have never studied it, I know it is very challenging. I believe HVL referred to it as the Amazon Study. 👏
- Dale_Needles
- 2 mths ago
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Re: Week 4: Play us out 🎉
@martin Is there a date for the watch party?
- Dale_Needles
- 2 mths ago
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Re: Week 4: Play us out 🎉
@Jack Stewart Very impressive that you have taken on this monumental suite. It is definitely coming along nicely. The Prelude flows as does the Allemande. And your ornaments are amazing.…
- Dale_Needles
- 2 mths ago
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Re: Week 4: Play us out 🎉
@Jim King Thanks, Jim. It is even more interesting when you place it in the context of Piazzolla's operetta. This tango is performed upon the death of the heroine of the opera and signifies both…
- Dale_Needles
- 2 mths ago
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Re: Week 4: Play us out 🎉
@Steve Price Thanks, Steve. I agree that Piazzolla can combine great melodic lines with a syncopated dissonance. And, Agustin Carlevaro really can apply that well for solo guitar.
- Dale_Needles
- 2 mths ago
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Re: Week 4: Play us out 🎉
@Blaise Laflamme Thanks, Blaise. Agustin does a great job with his arrangenents of Piazzolla's music. I have more than 20 arrangrments that he made. For the Tangata,…
- Dale_Needles
- 2 mths ago
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Re: Week 4: Play us out 🎉
@Jack Stewart Thanks, Jack. This tango is part of a Suite for Guitar comprising five pieces that Agustin Carlevaro arranged from Piazzolla's operetta that he wrote in collaboration with the Argentine…
- Dale_Needles
- 2 mths ago
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Re: Week 4: Play us out 🎉
@Ron @Barney Thanks! The title does translate to the "Tango of the Dawn" which refers to the death and rebirth of Maria from Piazzolla's operetta.
- Dale_Needles
- 2 mths ago
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Re: Week 4: Play us out 🎉
Here is Tangata del Alba by Astor Piazzolla arranged for guitar by Agustin Carlevaro.
- Dale_Needles
- 2 mths ago
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Re: Week 4: Play us out 🎉
@Barney Nicely done. Such a great piece and you are well on the way to mastering it. CARLEVARO has a nice edition of the Prelude, Fugue and Allegro. You might want to check it out for some fingering…
- Dale_Needles
- 2 mths ago
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Re: Week 4: Play us out 🎉
@Steve Price Excellent! I really like this piece which I had not known.
- Dale_Needles
- 2 mths ago
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Re: Week 3: Let's hear it 🎥
@Eric Phillips Very nicely played and a great choice . So glad you selected Carlevaro's arrangement. You might be interested in hearing the Maestro performing it in Toronto in 1978. https://youtu.…
- Dale_Needles
- 2 mths ago
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Re: Week 1: Play Whatever You Love ☀️🎸
@Blaise Laflamme Very beautifully played. York's compositions have an eliquent and musical simplicity which you play flawlessly.
- Dale_Needles
- 2 mths ago
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Re: Week 1: Play Whatever You Love ☀️🎸
@Blaise Laflamme Feels very reminiscent of Joplin. Very enjoyable to listen to and very well played.
- Dale_Needles
- 3 mths ago
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Re: Week 1: Play Whatever You Love ☀️🎸
@Eric Phillips Very beautiful, Eric. Unfamiliar to me, but definitely got the Llobet vibes.
- Dale_Needles
- 3 mths ago
- Summer Sessions Challenge!
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Re: Week 1: Play Whatever You Love ☀️🎸
@Blaise Laflamme Yes, it is a Tango that Agustin arranged and Abel edited from Maria de Buenas Aires Suite.
- Dale_Needles
- 3 mths ago
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Re: Week 1: Play Whatever You Love ☀️🎸
@David Krupka You never know, he definitely has the genes to do it. While I have yet to meet Lloyd Senior, his son Lloyd II is an amazing partner to our granddaughter.…
- Dale_Needles
- 3 mths ago
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Re: Week 1: Play Whatever You Love ☀️🎸
Glad to see this new summer Challenge and love the open ended theme. As I await the arrival of my second great grandchild, Lloyd Moseby III, I will be working on a Tango by Astor Piazzolla.…
- Dale_Needles
- 3 mths ago
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Re: Week 6: Rise of the Maestro
@Jack Stewart Wow, Jack. That was fantastic, probably your best performance on Tonebase. The music flowed so well and your ornaments were great. Bravo!
- Dale_Needles
- 3 mths ago
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Re: Week 6: Rise of the Maestro
@martin Thanks. It feels good to have completed all 20 of these great studies. I now have studied 55 of Carlevaro's 70 solo compositions. Hopefully someday, l will have studied them all.
- Dale_Needles
- 4 mths ago
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Re: Week 6: Rise of the Maestro
@Blaise Laflamme @Jack Stewart @Lars Kjøller-Hansen @Barney @Nijwm Bwiswmuthiary @Steve Price @ @Jim King Thanks all! It was quite the journey which started many years ago with the first set of five…
- Dale_Needles
- 4 mths ago
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- Unfinished Business Challenge ⚔️
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