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Re: 🎯 The Etude Challenge: Study Pieces, Serious Progress - Week 6
@Jack Stewart So for you, choose a very short, easy piece, from your beloved Romantic period, by a mediocre guitar composer. Make sure there is practically no counterpoint in it. 🙂
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Re: 🎯 The Etude Challenge: Study Pieces, Serious Progress - Week 6
@David Krupka Love it! I figured you would be able to add to my list.
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Re: 🎯 The Etude Challenge: Study Pieces, Serious Progress - Week 6
@martin I have always liked the "Teacher and Student" concept. Choose two composers who had a teacher-student relationship and work on a piece by each of them.…
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Re: 🎯 The Etude Challenge: Study Pieces, Serious Progress - Week 6
@martin I propose the "Expand Your Horizons" Challenge. Choose a piece that you might not ordinarily play because: it requires a technique you have not yet learned,…
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Re: 🎯 The Etude Challenge: Study Pieces, Serious Progress - Week 6
@Ariel Elijovich Sure, I’ll give them a try. Thank you!
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@Ariel Elijovich I’m sure that would make it sound better, but right hand articulation like that is just not in my technical toolbox. I have tried many times to articulate with the thumb while…
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Re: 🎯 The Etude Challenge: Study Pieces, Serious Progress - Week 6
@Steve Price Awesome, Steve! I had heard of these pieces, but never heard any of them. Did you get the music through his website?
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Some AI fun

I was playing around this morning in Google's AI. You know how it sometimes suggests topics for you based on your search history? Well, all of sudden it asked me if I'd like to hear some jokes about…
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Re: 🎯 The Etude Challenge: Study Pieces, Serious Progress - Week 6
@Jack Stewart Wow, that looks really difficult, but you are managing it well! I admire the way you tackle these gargantuan pieces of music.
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Re: 🎯 The Etude Challenge: Study Pieces, Serious Progress - Week 6
@David Krupka Yes, the studies at the end of the book are not easy, at least for us mere mortals. I quickly looked through all of them with a guitar in hand, and this one is about the easiest.…
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Re: 🎯 The Etude Challenge: Study Pieces, Serious Progress - Week 6
@Blaise Laflamme It's a spectacular channel. The composer's series has been very educational for me.
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Re: 🎯 The Etude Challenge: Study Pieces, Serious Progress - Week 6
@Debbie That was such a joy to listen to, Debbie! The improvement from your previous posts is remarkable. This is absolutely one of the most beautiful melodies written for the guitar,…
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Re: 🎯 The Etude Challenge: Study Pieces, Serious Progress - Week 6
Aguado - Estudio 24 (Apr 3) I don't know if any of you have been following the Guitar Composers Series put out by Fabio Zanon on the GuitarCoop YT channel.…
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Re: 🎯 The Etude Challenge: Study Pieces, Serious Progress - Week 6
@Ron Thank you, Ron. I published this video on YT, and I like to do those with this fireplace background. I use the camera that came on my laptop. My microphone is a Samson Go Mic that I plug into a…
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Re: 🎯 The Etude Challenge: Study Pieces, Serious Progress - Week 6
Sor - Op 29 No 24 final version (at least for now 😉) I think this is about as polished of a version of this that I can make for now. I tried a different process in my video editing,…
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Re: 🎯 The Etude Challenge: Study Pieces, Serious Progress - Week 6
@Dale Needles I like that a lot! Like Ron said, it’s reminiscent of HVL. I forget which one, but one of his etudes has those repeated chords.
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Re: 🎯 The Etude Challenge: Study Pieces, Serious Progress - Week 6
@Ron Thanks, Ron. We are all just a bunch of wounded warriors, aren’t we! It’s quite comforting to remember that we all have our struggles and challenges. Nothing about this is easy for any of us.
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Re: 🎯 The Etude Challenge: Study Pieces, Serious Progress - Week 5
@Andre Bernier Huge improvement on this, Andre! I love the way all of us can come together on these challenges, regardless of our playing levels, and celebrate our efforts to make beautiful music.…
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Re: 🎯 The Etude Challenge: Study Pieces, Serious Progress - Week 5
@Dale Needles Thank you, Dale. I must say, I have always looked on your technique (both hands) with admiration, and a bit of jealousy. I would not have guessed that you had dupuytrens contracture.…
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Re: 🎯 The Etude Challenge: Study Pieces, Serious Progress - Week 5
@David Krupka Thank you, David. I did not know you had suffered a stroke. I can only imagine the impact that has had, not only on your music-making, but on your entire life.…
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Re: 🎯 The Etude Challenge: Study Pieces, Serious Progress - Week 6
Shand - Exercise 68 from Improved Method This reminds me of something by Mertz. The tempo marking is adagio, which is just my speed! 🙂
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Re: 🎯 The Etude Challenge: Study Pieces, Serious Progress - Week 5
@Ariel Elijovich Thank you for the kind words, Ariel. I do not experience any physical pain at all. It is just the frustration of losing an ability I once had, but that, of course,…
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Re: 🎯 The Etude Challenge: Study Pieces, Serious Progress - Week 5
@Ariel Elijovich A few years ago, I began to lose the ability to use my right hand index finger. It began with a lot of inaccuracy placing it on the correct string.…
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Re: 🎯 The Etude Challenge: Study Pieces, Serious Progress - Week 5
@Jack Stewart Thanks, Jack. I actually really love a lot of Shand's compositions, but I find his studies pretty dull. There were only a few that I liked much, and most of those were very difficult.…
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Re: 🎯 The Etude Challenge: Study Pieces, Serious Progress - Week 5
@Ron Thanks Ron. My right hand is so messed up that I am not able to follow anyone’s right hand fingerings. I’m pretty embarrassed when I look at my right hand in videos.…
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