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Dale Needles
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Studied with Abel Carlevaro
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Re: Week 3: Show your Flowers! 🌷
@Jack Stewart Jack, you are too hard on yourself. I like what you are doing with this piece. Your ornamentation is impressive and you are so close. Just needs a little more time to open up like a…
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2 yrs ago
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Re: Week 3: Show your Flowers! 🌷
@Moyses Lopes Thanks! While not very well known, Carlevaro was such a master at writing simple little pieces using popular rhythms and folkloric forms, such as the Vidalita, Milonga and Tango.
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2 yrs ago
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Re: Week 3: Show your Flowers! 🌷
@Moyses Lopes Thanks! Ronda is one of my favorites, taking a simple melody and making it so rich and dense as you say. I also posted this in the Carlevaro Discussion Group - Composition Thread.…
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2 yrs ago
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Re: Carlevaro - Compositions
Here is Carlevaro's fourth prelude, Ronda from his set of "Preludios Americanos." I posted this over the weekend on the "Music You Love Challenge." It is a beautiful prelude that starts with a…
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2 yrs ago
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Re: Week 3: Show your Flowers! 🌷
@Austin Flemming Such joy!
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2 yrs ago
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Re: Week 3: Show your Flowers! 🌷
@Eric Phillips Thanks, Eric. I feel the same about listening to your interpretation of Sor.
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2 yrs ago
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Re: Week 3: Show your Flowers! 🌷
@Jack Stewart Thanks, Jack. I agree that it definitely grows on you. It is quite amazing how he builds on such a simple little melody.
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2 yrs ago
"Music YOU Love" Community Challenge!
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Re: Week 3: Show your Flowers! 🌷
Here is my final contribution to this month's challenge, Abel Carlevaro's beautiful prelude, "Ronda." Ronda is the fourth prelude in Carlevaro's Preludios Americanos series.…
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2 yrs ago
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"Music YOU Love" Community Challenge!
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Re: Week 3: Show your Flowers! 🌷
@Jack Stewart Thanks!
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2 yrs ago
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Re: Week 3: Show your Flowers! 🌷
@Barney Beautiful! Right in your wheelhouse, de Falla's music is wonderful and fits the guitar so well. Thanks for sharing.
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2 yrs ago
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Re: Carlevaro - Compositions
@Blaise Laflamme @Moyses Lopes Totally agree!
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2 yrs ago
Carlevaro's School of Guitar Group
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Re: Week 3: Show your Flowers! 🌷
@Barney Hi Barney, well of course Alfredo is right up to a point, however, I do believe that Carlevaro's book, "School of Guitar" is an excellent guide to help a guitarist explore Carlevaro's…
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2 yrs ago
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Re: Week 3: Show your Flowers! 🌷
@Steve Price Thanks Steve. I agree that even with his early pieces that are connected with more folkloric forms and traditional rhythms, he always infuses them with something interesting.…
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2 yrs ago
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Re: Week 3: Show your Flowers! 🌷
@Barney Thanks Barney. It is a very beautiful early piece by Carlevaro, and I like your suggestion of using vibrato for some of those thirds. I think Carlevaro would agree,…
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2 yrs ago
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Re: Week 3: Show your Flowers! 🌷
@Eric Phillips Thanks Eric. Also, enjoying your Sor' posting. You clearly have Sor down and they are sounding very good. I also have seen several posts in which you mention not using the apoyando…
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2 yrs ago
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Re: Week 3: Show your Flowers! 🌷
Here is take 2 for Carlevaro's Vidalita - Sol del Mayo. Not sure I play it any better, but I hope the sound is better.
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2 yrs ago
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Re: Carlevaro - General Discussion
@David Hi David and welcome to the Carlevaro Discussion group. You pose some excellent questions. Not sure I can answer them all but can give my thoughts about Carlevaro's School of Guitar and how it…
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2 yrs ago
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Re: Carlevaro - Compositions
@Blaise Laflamme @Moyses Lopes Thanks! This is a wonderful Estudio and well worth checking out. I find that Carlevaro's five Estudios - Homenaje a Villalobos are of a very high quality,…
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2 yrs ago
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Re: Carlevaro - Compositions
Well, I guess that I will start the composition thread. While I will be posting some of my video performances in the coming weeks of Carlevaro pieces, I am starting off with Carlevaro's "Estudio #5 -…
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Re: Carlevaro - Technique
Tips of the Week - As I mentioned in my previous "Tip of the Week" post, focusing on the first set of arpeggios exercises using toque 1 (free stroke) in Cuaderno 2,…
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2 yrs ago
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Re: Carlevaro - General Discussion
@don Hi Don, Blaise @Blaise Laflamme was able to find a pretty good pdf version of the School of Guitar online and will be posting it in the list of resources soon.
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2 yrs ago
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Re: Week 1: Pick a Piece! ♥
@Blaise Laflamme Just to let know it appears that Carlevaro wrote at least two pieces under the pseudonym, Jose Piendibene. The other was a malamba, which he titled "Oriental,…
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2 yrs ago
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Re: Carlevaro - General Discussion
@don @Blaise Laflamme Hi Don, I have been searching as well and it does seem Carlevaro's School of Guitar in English is hard to find. It appears it may be out of print.…
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2 yrs ago
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Re: Week 1: Pick a Piece! ♥
@Steve Price Thanks. Yes, I agree that it goes well with Campo Arado and/or one of Carlevaro's early Canciones. I am actually grouping it with Milonga para Ling and Milonga Oriental.…
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2 yrs ago
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Re: Week 1: Pick a Piece! ♥
@Jack Stewart Well done. Your ornaments are sounding very good. Love Picasso's blue period.
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2 yrs ago
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