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Re: Week 3: Tackling Challenges! Sor – Les Adieux Op 21 (July 19) Here is another update. I now am playing completely from memory, without even a score in front of me. I still have memory slips,…
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Re: "Easy Pieces" Mini Challenge @Martha Kreipke That was great, Martha! I am not familiar with it at all. It's always good to find easier pieces (I won't call it easy) with an interesting, syncopated rhythm to it.
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Re: "Easy Pieces" Mini Challenge @Bruno Calixto Sounding great, Bruno! I really love this whole opus, both musically and didactically. I hope we get to hear number 14 as well (one of my absolute favorites).…
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Re: "Easy Pieces" Mini Challenge @Fabrizio Fortunato That was beautiful, Fabrizio! Thanks so much for sharing it. The arrangement sounds very natural, like it was written for the classical guitar. Great work!
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Re: "Easy Pieces" Mini Challenge @don I like that idea! I think that statement could be true in at least a couple ways. First, if it’s a piece you have the technique to play, it’s easy, and if not, it’s impossible.…
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Re: "Easy Pieces" Mini Challenge For some reason, I felt like playing some lute music tonight. I figured that it would be a good idea to post a few pieces here, since my very limited abilities on the lute leave me with no other…
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Re: Navigating the Score and Strings: A Discussion for tonebuddies with Bifocals and Progressive Lenses I also have progressive lenses. I don’t have issues with being able to read music and look at my hands. The only issue I find is when I am playing very high on the neck, it is a little hard to focus,…
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Re: "Easy Pieces" Mini Challenge @Blaise Laflamme I remember this well, and it's every bit as beautiful now as it was then!
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Re: "Easy Pieces" Mini Challenge @David Of course, David, it is appropriate for everyone to participate. I find that, in playing an instrument, it is never easy to play anything well, and every piece of music is worthy of all of our…
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Re: "Easy Pieces" Mini Challenge I love playing simpler music and working on the details. Here are a couple pieces I thought of when this mini-challenge was announced: Carulli - Andantino Op 241 No 5 So simple, but so beautiful.…
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Re: Week 2: Forgotten Favorites! Sor – Les Adieux Op 21 (July 17 update) I wasn’t able to play much this past weekend, but today I had the chance to practice a bit. I have mostly been working on the faster section (“un poco mosso”)…
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Re: SIGN UP: Level up Your Musical Practice Strategies - Tengyue Zhang aka TY @Jose Luis Ochoa I am pretty sure it will be emailed to you before it starts. I’m not a team member, but that’s the way it has been done in the past.
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Re: Week 2: Forgotten Favorites! Sor – Les Adieux Op 21 (July 14) This is one of the first pieces that came to my mind when I heard the topic of this challenge. I had done a lot of work on it a while back,…
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Re: SIGN UP: Level up Your Musical Practice Strategies - Tenguye Zhang aka TY Two weeks with TY Zhang on one of the greatest pieces in our repertoire (and one that I can actually play)? Oh yeah, I signed up!
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Re: Week 2: Forgotten Favorites! Sor - Andante Op 45 No 5 (July 13 update) I tried to improve a few things from yesterday's video. I slightly altered a few fingerings that I hope give it a cleaner melody line.…
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Re: Week 2: Forgotten Favorites! @Dale Needles Glad all went well and that you are paying again. As always, you play this beautifully. The music seems very mysterious, like it's building up to something.
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Re: Week 2: Forgotten Favorites! @Barney An incredible start to some very beautiful and challenging music!
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Re: Week 2: Forgotten Favorites! Sor – Andante Op 45 No 5 (July 12) Okay, I went a whole week of this challenge without posting any Sor. Well, that changes today. (No mocking me!) This is a piece that I remember trying to play maybe…
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Re: Week 1: Our Unfinished Pieces! @Jack Stewart Thanks, Jack. Most people would find it strange that we consider music written in 1928 to be modern.
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Re: Guitar display cabinet @don Sorry, you’re right. I have no lute display case, either.
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Re: Guitar display cabinet Sorry, Don. I’ve got just one guitar that simply stays in its case when I am not playing it.
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Re: Week 1: Our Unfinished Pieces! @Brian Thanks, Brian. Here's a lute piece by John Dowland that I posted a couple challenges ago (Song and Dance Challenge).
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Re: Week 1: Our Unfinished Pieces! @Brian Sounds like heaven! I enjoy listening to and studying all kinds of music, but in terms of actually playing, I do classical guitar (and lute) exclusively now.
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Re: Week 1: Our Unfinished Pieces! @Spare Machine A little better each day. When I come to the hairy sections, I still get a little tense when I play them up to speed. I also hear my tempo fluctuating from time to time…
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Re: Week 1: Our Unfinished Pieces! @Spare Machine It worked great. The Pernambuco has such a great groove!
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