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Re: Blaise's Practice Diary - Sor's Gran Solo Op. 14
@Brett Gilbert Op 9 is the most famous one!
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Re: Blaise's Practice Diary - Sor's Gran Solo Op. 14
@Eric Phillips another one I have on my list of upcoming piece I want to work on next, while not being as modern as Koshkin, is the Saudade #3 by Roland Dyens...…
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Blaise's Practice Diary - Sor's Gran Solo Op. 14

I've been looking to learn and play this work for so many years... let's see how it goes over the next weeks. I read through it in the past, across multiple versions,…
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Re: Recuerdos de la Alhambra - Improving my Tremolo!
@Martin sounds good!
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Re: Recuerdos de la Alhambra - Improving my Tremolo!
@Martin I definitely want to play something for the concert, could be Koshkin or something else I want to play for a moment... I'm waiting to have more detail on this challenge like will it be…
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Re: Lute Advice
@Martin 😂... 4+3, 3+3+1, 4+3, 3+3+1... 😵🤯
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Re: Recuerdos de la Alhambra - Improving my Tremolo!
@Martin your tremolo is already great, so by the concert it would be just awesome 😍... personally I prefer when a tremolo piece like Recuerdos or Una limosnita is played slower than faster,…
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Re: Lute Advice
@Eric Phillips haha... well... I think it would be even more challenging than on the guitar! 🤯
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Re: Lute Advice
@Eric Phillips wow... amazing Eric!
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Re: WEEK 3: Dóbry wétscher (Good Evening)!
@Barney at least for me it wouldn't be possible to play it better and faster without being memorized, but after a few days of playing it got memorized. But the thing is to speed it up,…
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Re: WEEK 3: Dóbry wétscher (Good Evening)!
@Barney wow Barney, great job!! you're totally on the right track! Take care of the A flat on bar 11, penultimate top note, as the first chord of the bar has it. I'm eager to hear the final result!!
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Re: WEEK 3: Dóbry wétscher (Good Evening)!
@Derek thank you Derek for your appreciation!
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Re: WEEK 3: Dóbry wétscher (Good Evening)!
@Daniel Beltrán in any case it is a serious trigger of motivation!
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Re: WEEK 3: Dóbry wétscher (Good Evening)!
@Daniel Beltrán thank you! and since Koshkin kind of challenged me to play it at tempo I have no other choice than post an update at some point 😂
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Re: WEEK 3: Dóbry wétscher (Good Evening)!
@Martin you're so right about speed, it makes things behave very differently. For me playing at tempo was not a problem till the sixteenth notes, were I needed to raise up the speed,…
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- 4 yrs ago
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Re: WATCH PARTY with Nikita Koshkin for the Nikita Koshkin Challenge
@Eric Phillips thank you Eric... I should now take it more seriously to unlock my full potential! 😅 But it was very inspiring having them commenting out over us!
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Re: WATCH PARTY with Nikita Koshkin for the Nikita Koshkin Challenge
@Eric Phillips you deserve every words they have said about you... enjoy them as much as I enjoy for you 💪
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Re: WEEK 3: Dóbry wétscher (Good Evening)!
@Daniel Beltrán my hope to see one of your videos for this challenge was lost until now! great take on those 2 studies, #6 rocks! 💪
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Re: WEEK 3: Dóbry wétscher (Good Evening)!
@Barney agree, deadlines are mandatory to get results, and those studies are a huge addition to our repertoire!
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- 4 yrs ago
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Re: WEEK 3: Dóbry wétscher (Good Evening)!
@Barney thank you for your kind comments and appreciation. I would have like to do it better before the end of the challenge, I should have started on it earlier and put more time upfront,…
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- 4 yrs ago
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Re: WATCH PARTY with Nikita Koshkin for the Nikita Koshkin Challenge
@Martin OMG!! 😱
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Re: WEEK 3: Dóbry wétscher (Good Evening)!
@joosje thank you Joosje, once you managed to memorize the piece it becomes easier... but speeding it up is definitely the challenge.
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- 4 yrs ago
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Re: WEEK 1: Dóbroje útro (Good Morning)!
@Barney for me it's all about memorizing the music by figuring out what's going on (melody, rhythms, chords, patterns) and set on musical ideas. Fingering is coming second while I try multiple…
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- 4 yrs ago
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Re: WEEK 3: Dóbry wétscher (Good Evening)!
@Eric Phillips thank you Eric for the kind comments! I think I can tell you the same... you reach a level with #9 that is really impressive.
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Re: WEEK 3: Dóbry wétscher (Good Evening)!
@Martin thank you Martin, yeah I was crazy enough to tackle it 😂! You're right those bars 22-26 were hard to memorize and not make mistakes, I miserably failed the open E on bar 24 😭 but the other…
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