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Blaise Laflamme
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Classical Guitarist, Creative Mind and Ex-Software Engineer!
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Re: Carlevaro - Compositions
@Dale Needles That would have been great to have you join the Study Group for Brouwer's studies, but in any case these Carlevaro's are very interesting! I definitely have to post a few of them soon,…
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Re: Leo Brouwer's Estudios Sencillios!
@Jane Anderson My Eschig edition has it too, maybe we own an older right or wrong notation!
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Re: Leo Brouwer's Estudios Sencillios!
@Barney But it's also possible that you, or anyone, could find these studies without interests and for opposing reasons! 😅For my part, my first teachers quickly introduced me to these studies,…
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Re: Leo Brouwer's Estudios Sencillios!
@Barney This is indeed an interesting question, for my part and like Ariel I cannot imagine separating technique from music, hence my interest in MDT (Music Driven Technique).…
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Re: Leo Brouwer's Estudios Sencillios!
@Nijwm Bwiswmuthiary You're absolutely right, we learn so much from experience and perspective of each other, the beauty of learning collectively! We actually have an instrument that allows us to…
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Re: Leo Brouwer's Estudios Sencillios!
@Nijwm Bwiswmuthiary I'm glad you like it, well with these kind of short-micro pieces we have to find ways to quickly build contrasts, also part of what makes them challenging!
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Re: Leo Brouwer's Estudios Sencillios!
@Marc Adler 😂... I hope not!
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Re: Leo Brouwer's Estudios Sencillios!
@Ariel Elijovich You're right... and one of the most interesting!
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Re: Leo Brouwer's Estudios Sencillios!
@Marc Adler 😂Well... You'll have to get rid of other gear then!
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Re: Leo Brouwer's Estudios Sencillios!
@Ariel Elijovich Really like what you have done with #9, and also similar to what I would do musically! 👍💪
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Re: Leo Brouwer's Estudios Sencillios!
@Marc Adler Hey Marc, it took me some time to find a good setup for doing shareable quick videos, I like and I'm used to a more elaborated setup for my YT audio & video productions (Thanks to Martin!…
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Re: Leo Brouwer's Estudios Sencillios!
@Jane Anderson Thank you Jane, I'm glad you like it and that it gave you some ideas to try!
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Re: Leo Brouwer's Estudios Sencillios!
@Nijwm Bwiswmuthiary Sure, that's definitely the highlight before transitioning to the next section!
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Re: Leo Brouwer's Estudios Sencillios!
@Marc Adler Hehe... a nice trick!
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Re: Leo Brouwer's Estudios Sencillios!
@Barney Thanks Barney, yeah sad story for M.J. Fox :(
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Re: Leo Brouwer's Estudios Sencillios!
@Steve Price Well, we should bring back that symbol to #5! 💪
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Re: Leo Brouwer's Estudios Sencillios!
@Ariel Elijovich Haha... nice reminder... at least it's not the opening scene when he breaks up the amp! 😅
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Re: Leo Brouwer's Estudios Sencillios!
@Ariel Elijovich An idea from my former teacher, hard not to do once you've heard it! A bit harder with these new strings, I'm used to lower tension, then easier to do!
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Re: Leo Brouwer's Estudios Sencillios!
@Steve Price I missed your submission (from yesterday), it's becoming hard to follow this thread with all the activity! Great take on this one, you're right as simple as it is,…
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Re: Leo Brouwer's Estudios Sencillios!
@Marc Adler Great Marc, this is another beautiful one (with #5) with tricky rhythms and accents that make this music so fun to play!
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Re: Leo Brouwer's Estudios Sencillios!
@Nijwm Bwiswmuthiary @Steve Price@Marc Adler Unfortunately, we are taught very young (at least here in North America), through school education, that we start at 100 and that through our mistakes we…
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Re: Leo Brouwer's Estudios Sencillios!
@Nijwm Bwiswmuthiary Beautiful Nijwm, very fluid and articulated, bravo! To help in transitioning between chords and strings (in the bass) I tend to accentuate the last and first note of the motive…
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Re: Mastering Tricky Passages with Martin
@Steve Price You're right, it's hard to get the right balance for customer support, and here we kind of have two different products with different expectations, the «App» and the «Community».
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Re: Leo Brouwer's Estudios Sencillios!
Hey Tonebuddies, here's a quick take of Estudio #5 for sharing technical and interpretation ideas! Forgive the rough edges and missing notes, I need to polish it more and I'm running out of time,…
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Re: Mastering Tricky Passages with Martin
@Barney Also possible there's some problem related to email routing between you and Tonebase, I mean a lot of pro/non-pro email services are not well configured or to loose/straight on spam…
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