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Re: Week 3: Tackling Challenges!
@don Nicely done, Don. Definitely can see great improvement over the Challenge.
- Dale_Needles
- 2 yrs ago
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Re: Week 4: Resurrected Rhythms: Celebrating Revived Pieces!
@Barney Another beautiful Vals. While your playing is already sounding very good, I look forward to hearing all Valses when you have them in their final form.
- Dale_Needles
- 2 yrs ago
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Re: Week 4: Resurrected Rhythms: Celebrating Revived Pieces!
@Steve Pederson Coming along very nicely and I agree with the other comments, nice transcription.
- Dale_Needles
- 2 yrs ago
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Re: Week 4: Resurrected Rhythms: Celebrating Revived Pieces!
@Jack Stewart Outstanding, Jack. I really like this piece. It reminds a little of Carlevaro's Microestudio No. 1. You should check it out. In any case, great playing on this as well as composing.
- Dale_Needles
- 2 yrs ago
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Re: "Easy Pieces" Mini Challenge
@Jack Stewart Thanks, Jack. Did you see the earlier piece that I posted on this Easy Piece Challenge? It is that Carlevaro sketch which he wrote for his conservatory students.
- Dale_Needles
- 2 yrs ago
- Mini Challenges! 👐
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Re: Week 3: Tackling Challenges!
@Jack Stewart Thanks, now let's see if I can play all three sections together in one recording.
- Dale_Needles
- 2 yrs ago
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Re: Week 4: Resurrected Rhythms: Celebrating Revived Pieces!
@Barney Vals #4 is another of my favorites from this set. It is sounding really good and fits your playing well and your beautiful tone. My only humble suggestion would be to add more contrasting…
- Dale_Needles
- 2 yrs ago
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Re: Week 3: Tackling Challenges!
@Eric Phillips The Sor is sounding very good. I like how you start the piece using more of the flesh of the thumb for those big chords and later when you repeat those chords, you use more the nail,…
- Dale_Needles
- 2 yrs ago
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Re: "Easy Pieces" Mini Challenge
@Wai A nice little study by Giuliani and well played. This must be a nice break from all those Carlevaro's Microestudios you have been playing. One little suggestion,…
- Dale_Needles
- 2 yrs ago
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Re: "Easy Pieces" Mini Challenge
@Eric Phillips Nice little sweet piece. I know what you mean when you just need to find something simple to sight read through to give oneself a rest from the more challenging pieces, we all work on.…
- Dale_Needles
- 2 yrs ago
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Re: "Easy Pieces" Mini Challenge
@Eric Phillips Thanks. It is amazing how many little gems Lauro and Carlevaro have floating around that were never published.
- Dale_Needles
- 2 yrs ago
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Re: "Easy Pieces" Mini Challenge
Here is a beautiful and easy little Venezuelan children's song, harmonized by Antonio Lauro. The title for this piece is "El Trompo" which means top or can also mean "El Sombrero.…
- Dale_Needles
- 2 yrs ago
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Re: Week 3: Tackling Challenges!
@Steve Pederson Great beginning to this classic piece.
- Dale_Needles
- 2 yrs ago
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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.
- Dale_Needles
- 2 yrs ago
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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.
- Dale_Needles
- 2 yrs ago
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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,…
- Dale_Needles
- 2 yrs ago
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- Carlevaro's School of Guitar Group
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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.
- Dale_Needles
- 2 yrs ago
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Re: Week 3: Tackling Challenges!
@Blaise Laflamme Very beautiful tribute to your mother and wonderful to hear it again.
- Dale_Needles
- 2 yrs ago
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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.…
- Dale_Needles
- 2 yrs ago
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- Carlevaro's School of Guitar Group
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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!
- Dale_Needles
- 2 yrs ago
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- Carlevaro's School of Guitar Group
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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.…
- Dale_Needles
- 2 yrs ago
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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.
- Dale_Needles
- 2 yrs ago
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Re: "Easy Pieces" Mini Challenge
@Blaise Laflamme Very beautiful!
- Dale_Needles
- 2 yrs ago
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Re: "Easy Pieces" Mini Challenge
@Martha Kreipke Very lovely piece, Martha. Thanks for sharing.
- Dale_Needles
- 2 yrs 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…
- Dale_Needles
- 2 yrs ago
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