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Re: WEEK 1: What we've learned!!!
@Nijwm Bwiswmuthiary Well, I will explain what I do, but I doubt it is the best or most efficient way. I am not a very technological person. (To give you a sense of my backwardness,…
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- 1 yr ago
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Re: WEEK 1: What we've learned!!!
Giuliani - Le Rose Op 46 No 9 Here is a piece that I have loved for many years, and attempted to play on several occasions in the past. For some reason, I always hit a brick wall.…
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Re: WEEK 1: What we've learned!!!
@Nijwm Bwiswmuthiary Blaise is a master. He can guide you much better than I can. For what it is worth, my microphone is a Samson Go Mic. I bought it for $40 US dollars. Here is a picture.
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- 1 yr ago
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Re: WEEK 1: What we've learned!!!
@Blaise Laflamme Thanks, but your videos rival those of the best professionals making classical guitar videos today (starting, of course, with your outstanding playing and musicianship).
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- 1 yr ago
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Re: WEEK 1: What we've learned!!!
@Blaise Laflamme Maybe ... I have less confidence than you!
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- 1 yr ago
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Re: WEEK 1: What we've learned!!!
I have been giving some thought to question of how I want to proceed for this challenge. The parameters of the challenge seem so wide that I was having a hard time focusing.…
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- 1 yr ago
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Re: WEEK 1: What we've learned!!!
I add some reverb and do loudness normalization with Audacity, a free sound editing software I downloaded. I use an inexpensive USB mic with my laptop.
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- 1 yr ago
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Re: WEEK 1: What we've learned!!!
@BRINA It's a beautiful instrument! It looks and sounds great.
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- 1 yr ago
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Re: WEEK 1: What we've learned!!!
@BRINA Beautiful, Brina! I am curious about the guitar you are playing. Can you tell us anything about it?
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- 1 yr ago
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Re: WEEK 4: Fernando Sor for Everyone!!
@Jack Stewart I do. I am much more drawn to the less-often-played works in the repertoire. It probably comes from some psychological need to be special or different.
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- 1 yr ago
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Re: WEEK 4: Fernando Sor for Everyone!!
@Jack Stewart Yes, Marcello's performance is ridiculously virtuosic, but yours was very good too, and far better than I have ever been able to play this.
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- 1 yr ago
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Re: WEEK 4: Fernando Sor for Everyone!!
@Jim King @Andre Bernier @Blaise Laflamme Thanks, guys! Maybe someday I'll get to the other pieces in the opus.
- Eric
- 1 yr ago
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Re: WEEK 4: Fernando Sor for Everyone!!
@Jack Stewart Excellent, Jack! I do really like this study, too. Like Nijwm said, it's similar to the more famous Op 35 No 22, but not played nearly as often, which I like.
- Eric
- 1 yr ago
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Re: WEEK 4: Fernando Sor for Everyone!!
Andante Op 60 No 13 I know I said that yesterday would be my last post for the challenge, but I heard a recording yesterday that inspired me. It’s by Marcello Fantoni,…
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- 1 yr ago
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Re: WEEK 4: Fernando Sor for Everyone!!
Two Menuets (Op 24 No 1 and 6) I think I’ll make this my last post for this challenge. I was able to bring the tempo of number 6 up a bit.
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- 1 yr ago
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Re: WEEK 4: Fernando Sor for Everyone!!
@Jack Stewart Yes, Steve didn’t follow through on his offer. I wanted a Lacote for that tuning. It’s pretty disappointing, frankly.
- Eric
- 1 yr ago
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Re: WEEK 4: Fernando Sor for Everyone!!
@Jim King Great work, Jim! It is sounding more fluid and musical.
- Eric
- 1 yr ago
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Re: WEEK 4: Fernando Sor for Everyone!!
Two Menuets from Op 24 (Nov 30) The first video here is an update of the Menuet Andantino Lento No 1 that I have already been playing this week. The biggest difference here, perhaps,…
- Eric
- 1 yr ago
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- Fernando Sor Challenge
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Re: WEEK 4: Fernando Sor for Everyone!!
@Jack Stewart Thanks, Jack! I was thinking of giving those chords full-on flamenco rasgueados with golpes, but that would probably be a little out of character for Sor (just a little).…
- Eric
- 1 yr ago
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Re: WEEK 4: Fernando Sor for Everyone!!
@Jack Stewart These are spectacular, Jack! With all of your usual self-deprecation, you tried to lower our expectations, but I knew better. These are two of Sor's best studies,…
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- 1 yr ago
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Re: WEEK 4: Fernando Sor for Everyone!!
@Marilyn Blodget Beautiful, Marilyn! Very elegant playing.
- Eric
- 1 yr ago
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Re: WEEK 4: Fernando Sor for Everyone!!
@Steve Pederson I didn't know you had all of those guitars, just hoping! I assume cases are included in your free offer? Maybe an extra set of strings and a tuner?…
- Eric
- 1 yr ago
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Re: WEEK 4: Fernando Sor for Everyone!!
@Nijwm Bwiswmuthiary Thank you, Nijwm. My ideal repertoire wishlist would probably be a mile long, but here are a few pieces that have stood out for me for many years:…
- Eric
- 1 yr ago
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Re: WEEK 4: Fernando Sor for Everyone!!
@Steve Pederson I so promise! Shall I send you a shipping address? I'd like a Romanillos, a Hauser, a Torres, a Panormo, and a Lacote. I will absolutely keep them all tuned differently if that makes…
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- 1 yr ago
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Re: WEEK 4: Fernando Sor for Everyone!!
@Blaise Laflamme This is so great, Blaise! There is something about your sound and phrasing on this one that just sounds very authentic to the period. I could listen to music like this all day long.
- Eric
- 1 yr ago
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