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Re: Week 2: Strings Attached 🎸
@Michael Shirk Well done, Michael! I really like your trills. Are you achieving the muted basses with your left hand?
- Eric
- 2 yrs ago
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Re: Fernando Sor - Six Petite Pieces Op 47
Andante No 3 Final Version (Apr 23) I eliminated the repeats. It's fairly long and a bit repetitive even without them.
- Eric
- 2 yrs ago
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- Your Practice Diary
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Re: Week 2: Strings Attached 🎸
@joosje Thank you, Joosje. It is difficult to compete with the piano on a piece like this. The music seems to be teaching me to touch and stroke the strings a bit differently, more softly,…
- Eric
- 2 yrs ago
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Re: Week 2: Strings Attached 🎸
@David Krupka Thank you, David. I do feel more comfortable. I found with the chordal sequence, the lighter I play it, the more legato it sounds (or at least the illusion is legato is better).…
- Eric
- 2 yrs ago
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Re: Fernando Sor - Six Petite Pieces Op 47
Allegretto No 2 Final Version (Apr 23)
- Eric
- 2 yrs ago
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Re: Miguel Llobet Mini Challenge
@David Krupka Thanks so much, David, for listening and for the background info on this piece. Musically, it is a bit odd, and I'm not sure I am effectively communicating what Llobet had intended.…
- Eric
- 2 yrs ago
- Miguel Llobet Mini Challenge 🐂
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Re: Who are your Guitar Heroes?
@martin Martin Zimny. Full stop.
- Eric
- 2 yrs ago
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Re: Who are your Guitar Heroes?
The first classical guitarist whose playing I fell in love with is Bream. His interpretations of certain pieces (such as Nocturnal or La Maja de Goya) are just miraculous.…
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- 2 yrs ago
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Re: Miguel Llobet Mini Challenge
Leonesa and Plany (Apr 22 update) I thought I would give these two another attempt. I tried using more vibrato and change of tone color and dynamics. In other words,…
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- 2 yrs ago
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- Miguel Llobet Mini Challenge 🐂
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Re: Week 2: Strings Attached 🎸
Debussy - Girl with Flaxen Hair (Apr 22) Here is another update on this piece. Nothing is terribly different. One funny thing. I noticed that when playing the opening note (a sustained high D),…
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- 2 yrs ago
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Re: Week 2: Strings Attached 🎸
@Jack Stewart Beautiful, Jack! You really play that double quickly! I almost get a panic attack when I think of playing anything that fast. Good sound, and everything is very fluid.
- Eric
- 2 yrs ago
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Re: Week 2: Strings Attached 🎸
@Calin Lupa Sounding great, Calin! Such great music. I've heard it as a duet many times, but never thought of trying to play it solo. I did a quick search,…
- Eric
- 2 yrs ago
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Re: Week 2: Strings Attached 🎸
@Steve Price Very nice, Steve. I'm not familiar with this, but it's beautiful. I am very guilty of practicing like you said, the entire piece all at once.…
- Eric
- 2 yrs ago
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Re: Week 1: Let there be Music! 🎶
@Jack Stewart Well, there certainly are plenty of great players who make it work. I’ve heard it can be easier at first if you lower your string tension by tuning down a half step or even a while step.…
- Eric
- 2 yrs ago
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Re: Miguel Llobet Mini Challenge
Plany Hey! Anybody else out there playing some Llobet? I thought I'd give this seldom-heard piece a try. According to my score (attached below), it is part of the Canciones Populares Catalanas.…
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- 2 yrs ago
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- Miguel Llobet Mini Challenge 🐂
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Re: Week 1: Let there be Music! 🎶
@Khiem Nguyen Good work, Khiem! That is a very effective transcription., and you are already playing through the whole thing. I like the moments of rubato you add (like in measure 6 going into 7,…
- Eric
- 2 yrs ago
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- The Transcriptions Chalenge
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Re: Week 1: Let there be Music! 🎶
@Jack Stewart Excellent, Jack! You have such a feel for baroque music, and as always, your ornaments are superb. That's quite a bit of material you have gotten through.…
- Eric
- 2 yrs ago
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Re: Miguel Llobet Mini Challenge
@Eric Phillips I just struck a little gold in figuring out where this music comes from. Apparently it is not from a song, but from a piece for piano by Rogelio Villar.…
- Eric
- 2 yrs ago
- Miguel Llobet Mini Challenge 🐂
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Re: Miguel Llobet Mini Challenge
@Michael Shirk Thanks, Michael. I’m not familiar with the saying, but the only thing that will get me to stop playing is a bunch of technique exercises. Those are my kryptonite!
- Eric
- 2 yrs ago
- Miguel Llobet Mini Challenge 🐂
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Re: Week 1: Let there be Music! 🎶
@Jack Stewart You're dating yourself, Lorne!
- Eric
- 2 yrs ago
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Re: Week 1: Let there be Music! 🎶
@Jack Stewart Yes! This piece is only 113 years old! A mere child.
- Eric
- 2 yrs ago
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Re: Week 1: Let there be Music! 🎶
@Jack Stewart I could not agree more!
- Eric
- 2 yrs ago
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Re: Week 1: Let there be Music! 🎶
@Khiem Nguyen Not at all. I have tried to play this piece a couple times, and decided to put it into the "pieces for later" pile. I look forward to hearing you play it, though!
- Eric
- 2 yrs ago
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Re: Week 1: Let there be Music! 🎶
@Khiem Nguyen Great choice! The score looks so impressive. That would take me about 5 years to create. 😀
- Eric
- 2 yrs ago
- The Transcriptions Chalenge
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Re: Fernando Sor - Six Petite Pieces Op 47
Op 47 No 2 Allegretto (Apr 17) I tried to add more dynamics and tone color changes.
- Eric
- 2 yrs ago
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