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Re: Appalachian Colours - Beauvais
@don Thank you Don, yes this is a partial capo that covers only 3 strings.
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Re: Appalachian Colours - Beauvais
@David Krupka hmmm... interesting but I suspect an open E tuning would make it hard to play in other keys. I like the convenience of the partial capo as you don't have to tune to something else and…
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Re: Appalachian Colours - Beauvais
@David Krupka yeah right... the practice plan provided me mostly flamenco technique stuff... and while I find it interesting I have no plan for such thing 😅
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Re: Appalachian Colours - Beauvais
@David Krupka no worries... I should have posted the video in a reply to the new thread, I was looking at the current challenge to post this but it's really out of topic this time! 😅
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Re: Appalachian Colours - Beauvais
@David Krupka Thank you David, and yes William Beauvais is a fellow Canadian! You're right about the partial capo, it covers strings 5-4-3 on the second fret to provide a transposed equivalent of…
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Appalachian Colours - Beauvais

Tonebuddies, here's «Gold» the first colour of the set I was supposed to play at the «Golden Leaves, Golden Tunes» Recital last year. I'll post the second one, Red, in a few days. Take care!
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Re: Carlevaro - General Discussion
@Dale Needles Thanks for sharing this Dale, just bought it! 🎉
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Re: fluted soundproofing panel?
@don no, they are the same as on the walls but suspended, they are made of wood, absorbent materials and fabrics. Look at the attached picture, it'll give you an idea.
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Re: fluted soundproofing panel?
@don I ended up with a setup with 4 panels on each side walls, 2 bass traps in the corners and 2 panels on the ceiling where I play. I can say that I can now hear my natural guitar sound and also the…
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Re: fluted soundproofing panel?
@don I fear your sound will be worst if you install this kind of panels in your current room, you won't find any enhancement and your pleasure to play will be diminished instead.…
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Re: fluted soundproofing panel?
Also I personally prefer adding only subtle reverb because church-like and large hall reverbs tend to produce the reverse effect of what I'm looking for...…
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Re: fluted soundproofing panel?
Most of the cheap and thin panels won't help for a better sound and would probably make it worst. It also depends of your room configuration and dimensions,…
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Re: WEEK 6: What We've Achieved!!!
@Dale Needles Thank you Dale... Working to post a few Microestudios in the Carlevaro group soon.
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- 1 yr ago
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Re: WEEK 6: What We've Achieved!!!
@Jack Stewart for sure there are beautiful guitar interpretations out there and some had and have some influence on my own too, and a lot of things I like to hear the way they are would never be part…
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Re: WEEK 6: What We've Achieved!!!
@Jim King Thank you Jim!
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- 1 yr ago
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Re: WEEK 5: What We've Aspired!!!
@Barney Beautiful rendition of those 2 Sonatina's movements Barney. As I said before you have a great affinity with Spanish music and we definitely hear it in your expressive interpretation, bravo!
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- 1 yr ago
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Re: WEEK 5: What We've Aspired!!!
@Dale Needles Beautiful Dale, your understanding of Carlevaro's music elements and textures combined with a refined use of colours and technique provide a very expressive interpretation of this work,…
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- 1 yr ago
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Re: WEEK 6: What We've Achieved!!!
@Jack Stewart that's a good approach... in fact I myself rarely base my playing on other guitarists versions or a guitar-centric approach, I prefer a music first approach (out of any instrument) and…
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- 1 yr ago
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Re: WEEK 5: What We've Aspired!!!
@Marilyn Blodget Bravo Marilyn, what a beast you're working on and you're doing very great! I hope to eventually hear the first part, or the whole work, in an upcoming challenge! 💪
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- 1 yr ago
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Re: WEEK 6: What We've Achieved!!!
@Barney Thank you Barney, I like playing new stuff... even more when composers are still alive 😅
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- 1 yr ago
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Re: WEEK 6: What We've Achieved!!!
@don Thank you Don, check her YT Channel she plays very well... and her scores are available at Bergmann Edition.
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- 1 yr ago
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Re: WEEK 6: What We've Achieved!!!
@Jack Stewart Again here Jack, you have a really good understanding of what's going on and where you're going musically. Those thirds are killers without nails, oh my gosh...…
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- 1 yr ago
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Re: WEEK 6: What We've Achieved!!!
@Jack Stewart I don't remember your previous performance of it but this one is great! You have clear ideas, articulations and phrasing... and a lot of energy in the rendition!…
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Re: WEEK 6: What We've Achieved!!!
@Jack Stewart Thank you very much for your kind comment Jack, the music is so expressive by itself... it's hard to do nothing while playing these notes! 😅
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- 1 yr ago
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Re: WEEK 6: What We've Achieved!!!
@Jack Stewart I'm late to the topic and your video has been removed... I'm sorry to read that you had to remove it because you couldn't stand to listen to it.…
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- 1 yr ago
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