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Re: WEEK TWO: The Musical Voyage!
@Martin thanks for sharing your thoughts as you progress on this sketch, it's very informative. I'm looking forward to your next stream about the lasts sketches.
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Re: WEEK TWO: The Musical Voyage!
@Steve Pederson great sound and playing Steve, you're doing the right thing to play at a speed you can manage to some point what you're doing. I understand you, as a perfectionist,…
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@Steve Pederson thank you Steve, this is a 1999 cedar top from luthier Rene Wilhelmy I bought last year from someone around here, my first Wilhelmy was a 1991 that I unfortunately sold 15 years ago…
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Re: WEEK TWO: The Musical Voyage!
@Daniel Beltrán FYI I always had a mirror in my studio near where I practice to have an overview of what I'm doing, get one ASAP!
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Re: WEEK TWO: The Musical Voyage!
@Eric Phillips what a great idea to make it yours that way to better understand the parts you're struggling with, creativity in action again... bravo!
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Re: WEEK TWO: The Musical Voyage!
@Khiem Nguyen great khiem! you're following @Eric Phillips path to consistency and dedication, fantastic to have you on board!
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Re: WEEK TWO: The Musical Voyage!
@Martin you're too kind... I'm happy you enjoyed it... it's also just fingers on strings
...
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Re: WEEK TWO: The Musical Voyage!
@Martin thank you Martin, that sketch is more than suited for those kind of rhythmic and color contrasts, it was really fun to make my way through.
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Re: WEEK TWO: The Musical Voyage!
@Martin thank you Martin, yeah the glissando makes even more sense when you play the piece at a slower tempo, I figured out I could use it as a «momentum» near the end of the section.
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Re: WEEK TWO: The Musical Voyage!
@Eric Phillips thank you Eric
... I hear this piece a bit differently than how others play it as I can see... I feel it more like a 3/8 or 6/8 and that gives it a more dancing flow as you have…
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@Jack Stewart you're so right... it's hard to keep up with everything going on here... I understand you as it's the same for me
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Re: WEEK TWO: The Musical Voyage!
Hello friends, here's my progress on sketch #4 so far... that's a beautiful one for sure... the melody and harmonies are very well written in a «not too hard» piece to play...…
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Re: WEEK TWO: The Musical Voyage!
@Daniel Beltrán great take on this one! looks like you have affinities with faster tempo
. While I haven't got any pain because of my position and footstool,…
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@Jack Stewart what journey Jack! I'm happy you discovered Tonebase and have met you here... I hope to see you next soon in challenges or hangouts!
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@Brett Gilbert Welcome Brett! I'm amazed you're playing both piano and guitar, wow, I have an hard time organizing myself to play only one
... I hope to see you around in streams and challenges,…
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Re: WEEK TWO: The Musical Voyage!
@Martin great advices Martin, thanks for taking time to share this with us because Sergio Assad is cool!
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Re: WEEK TWO: The Musical Voyage!
@Martin thanks Martin, yeah with two voices and try to keep the legato... «a la Carlevaro»
... for the second one I totally miss the end part obviously, I should have practice more,…
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@Daniel Beltrán thank you Daniel, I'll try to record as much as I can till the end... I'm now on vacation, I should have more time, but at the same time a lot of other things are happening...…
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@Daniel Beltrán thank you... same for me about you!
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@Eric Phillips good work here too!
I think once you've mastered the chord shapes you could probably emphasis more on the rythme and then come back to mix both together...…
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Re: WEEK TWO: The Musical Voyage!
@Eric Phillips What a nice idea... that piece has now a lot more direction, your progress on this one is impressive. As I said before, you have a lot of creativity!
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@Khiem Nguyen good work! your open strings don't sound as bad as you may think. I would suggest you to think about making non-open string notes less warm, instead of the opposite,…
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Re: WEEK TWO: The Musical Voyage!
@Khiem Nguyen yes for sure Sergio has thought about a lot in those sketches.
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@Khiem Nguyen thank you... I'm happy if I could have given you some basic ideas for your own playing!
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@Ron Thank you Ron!
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