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Re: Week 4: The Flow of Practice: Bringing It Together Regondi Etude 1 (Dec 6) Another update. Finally playing with no score in front of me.
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Re: Week 3: Turning Points: Overcoming Hurdles @Wai I just listened to what you played, and that sounds right to me. In the first measure you circled, I think the G# and F are to be played together (simultaneously with the low E in the bass).…
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Re: Week 3: Turning Points: Overcoming Hurdles @Jack Stewart This is truly remarkable, Jack! I am no arranger, but it strikes as a very effective arrangement. The emotional arc of the music comes through very clearly.…
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Re: Week 3: Turning Points: Overcoming Hurdles @Wai Love it! This piece has so much intensity and drama packed into a minute and a half. It's one of the highlights of my favorite opus by Giuliani. Great playing,…
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Re: Week 3: Turning Points: Overcoming Hurdles @Vilio Celli Lovely, Vilio! That seems to be quite a test of endurance.
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Re: Week 3: Turning Points: Overcoming Hurdles Regondi Etude 1 (Dec 3) Another update. I do pretty much have it memorized, but I kept the score in front of me as a bit of a security blanket. I did play the coda without the score, and naturally,…
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Re: The Joys of playing easy pieces (for those aging fingers and wrists...) Amen! I could not agree more. Easy pieces bring me so much joy, and never stop teaching me.
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Re: Week 3: Turning Points: Overcoming Hurdles @joosje Well done, Joosje! You really capture the baroque aesthetic, it seems to me.
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Re: Week 3: Turning Points: Overcoming Hurdles Regondi Etude 1 Nov 28 Here's another update. It's a couple baby steps ahead of my last post. Today is Thanksgiving here in the U.S., so I just want to say how thankful I am to this community and for…
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Re: Week 2: Finding Momentum: Small Steps, Big Progress @joosje Great job, Joosje! The articulation gives it such a nice sense of pulse.
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Re: Week 2: Finding Momentum: Small Steps, Big Progress @Calin Lupa Good work, Calin. It's such a challenging piece for the left hand, but you are navigating it well!
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Re: Week 2: Finding Momentum: Small Steps, Big Progress @Nijwm Bwiswmuthiary Thanks, Nijwm! Playing it makes me feel like a gymnast performing a floor routine. Hopefully, I'm a better guitarist than gymnast though!
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Re: Week 2: Finding Momentum: Small Steps, Big Progress @joosje Thank you, Joosje. I can hear that the B section is noticeably slower. It’s mostly because I’m still groping around to find the notes. Why are B sections almost always harder!?
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Re: Week 2: Finding Momentum: Small Steps, Big Progress @Jack Stewart "Daunting" is the right word! "Intimidating" works too!
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Re: Week 2: Finding Momentum: Small Steps, Big Progress @joosje I think practically every measure is tricky, but you're right, the fireworks at the end are particularly challenging.
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Re: Week 2: Finding Momentum: Small Steps, Big Progress @Palmer The music is incredible. I only wish he had written a few beginner or intermediate level pieces.
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Re: Week 2: Finding Momentum: Small Steps, Big Progress Regondi - Etude 1 (Nov 26) Well, I can (sort of) play through the whole piece now. As this recording shows, I am still just getting it into my fingers. It is exhausting to play it straight through.…
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Re: Week 2: Change of Colors @Blaise Laflamme Congratulations, Blaise! It must be amazing to hear those words of praise from the composer. Plus, we are talking about Andrew York, one of the greatest guitarists of our time!…
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Re: Week 2: Finding Momentum: Small Steps, Big Progress @Blaise Laflamme Oh, I think this one might take me to the end of the challenge, if not beyond. The really hard parts are yet to come.
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Re: Week 2: Finding Momentum: Small Steps, Big Progress @Blaise Laflamme This is just incredible, Blaise! I have always liked Marianne's music, but I think this may be my favorite. Love the groove!
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Re: Week 2: Finding Momentum: Small Steps, Big Progress Regondi Etude 1 A section (mm 1-16) I guess this fits under the "something you’ve always wanted to learn but never started" description in the goal for this challenge.…
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Re: If You Could Only Listen to One Composer for a Year, Who Would It Be? Fernando Sor. I know this is clearly a guitarist’s kind of choice, but whenever I play or listen to Sor, I feel like I’m home. The one word that describes his music best for me is elegant.
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Re: What’s the Most Unusual Piece You’ve Played or Heard? At my senior recital in college (over thirty years ago), I played Richard Rodney Bennett’s Impromptus, why are pretty out there. I also played a bizarre piece that I wrote for tape and guitar,…
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Re: Tukasz Kuropaczewski-practice principles lesson @David Krupka Thank you, David, for saying this so well. When I watched Lukazs's video, I could tell almost right away that his approach was not for me, but I was unable to articulate why.…
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Re: Final Week: Music of the Fall Shand - Andante Caprice Op 65 (Nov 11) One more time! I finally have it memorized, so I thought I'd record it again today.
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