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Re: Week 3: Tackling Challenges! @Steve Pederson Great beginning to this classic piece.
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Re: Week 3: Tackling Challenges! @Steve Pederson Thanks. Breaking the piece into manageable sections definitely makes the piece easier to learn. Putting it all together is the challenge. Let's see how it goes this coming week.
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Re: Carlevaro - Compositions @Wai You are most welcomed. It has been a great pleasure to watch you progress through these Microestudios and to watch you become acquainted with Maestro Carlevaro, the composer.
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Re: Carlevaro - Compositions @Wai Excellent, Wai. I can really see improvement in your left arm/hand. Definitely, much reduced string noise. I also agree that those horizontal shifts can cause problems with string noise,…
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Re: Week 3: Tackling Challenges! Here is the 3rd Section of Carlevaro's Capricho from his Introduccion y Capricho. Hopefully, I can polish it up this week and post the entire Capricho next week.
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Re: Week 3: Tackling Challenges! @Blaise Laflamme Very beautiful tribute to your mother and wonderful to hear it again.
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Re: Carlevaro - Compositions @Wai That was very well played, Wai. I liked how you maintained the drone in the treble voice. You also made the shifts by jumps very cleanly with little to no string noise.…
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Re: Carlevaro - Compositions @Moyses Lopes So glad to see you back and to have your recording of the Scherzino posted. Beautifully done!
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Re: Week 3: Tackling Challenges! @Eric Phillips Sounding really good, Eric. I noticed that you softened the thumb strokes on those opening chords from the last post. That sounds much better.…
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Re: Week 2: Forgotten Favorites! @Barney It is coming together. Such a lovely set of Valses. The A section of this one is sounding really good.
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Re: "Easy Pieces" Mini Challenge @Blaise Laflamme Very beautiful!
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Re: "Easy Pieces" Mini Challenge @Martha Kreipke Very lovely piece, Martha. Thanks for sharing.
- Dale Needles
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- 1 yr ago
- Mini Challenges!
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Re: "Easy Pieces" Mini Challenge Here is little study that Abel Carlevaro wrote for his students at the Music Conservatory in Montevideo in the late 1950s. As you will hear, it gives us an early glimpse of Carlevaro musical tonal…
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Re: Week 2: Forgotten Favorites! @don Thanks, Don. And, yes Calevaro's compositional style does grow on you. He blends a contrapuntal style of writing with modern tonalities, folkloric rhythms and beautiful and, at times,…
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Re: Week 2: Forgotten Favorites! @don Yes, this would be an example of "fijacion" in which the stronger muscles of the arm are used to lift hand/fingers off the strings.
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Re: Week 2: Forgotten Favorites! @Wai Thanks and great observation about Carlevaro's music.
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Re: Week 2: Forgotten Favorites! @don You are making nice progress on this piece. The beginning is sounding so beautiful. I agree the upper registers are giving you some challenges in the later measures.…
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Re: Week 2: Forgotten Favorites! @Wai Very nice, Wai. You seem to have a very strong affinity for early music.
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Re: Week 2: Forgotten Favorites! Here is the B Section of Carlevaro's Capricho from the Introduccion y Capricho. This is a short movement with a call and response of the original theme introduced at the beginning of the Section A…
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Re: Week 2: Forgotten Favorites! @Eric Phillips Great choice for this challenge and excellent start. I feel this is Sor at his best and great to see you take on the challenge of mastering this important piece.…
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Re: Week 2: Forgotten Favorites! @Wai Thanks, Wai. The Capricho is classic Carlevaro. I look forward to hearing your interpretation of Microestudio #14, another great Carlevaro study. BTW,…
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Re: Week 2: Forgotten Favorites! @joosje @Eric Phillips Thanks. I agree this piece is a little mysterious and offers a lot of nuance use of timbre and interpretation.
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- 1 yr ago
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Re: Week 2: Forgotten Favorites! @Blaise Laflamme Thanks. Yes, I did move my mics down as well as closer and agree that it improved the sound. I also have two Anthony Murray guitars and while I normally record with my 1999 guitar…
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- 1 yr ago
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Re: Week 2: Forgotten Favorites! @Barney Thanks. The "surgery" was very minor. They numbed my palm with a few shots and then made a couple of small incisions with a needle and scraped away scar-like tissue that were on two of my…
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Re: Week 2: Forgotten Favorites! Last week was a bit crazy for me, had some minor work done on two tendons in the palm of my right hand but all went well and only kept me off the guitar for a few days.…
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