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Re: Sonata 3 Manuel M. Ponce An outstanding piece of music, and you are already playing this movement with great tone and feeling. Despite being slow, this middle movement is very challenging.…
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Re: Group 1 Hi Martin. Thanks for starting this up. I'll be honest, I'm not sure I have the patience and perseverance to do even the shortened version of these assignments everyday, but I'll try.…
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Re: Technique work that shines in your pieces with Phil Goldenberg @joosje I wish I could help, Joosje. It worked for me the regular way. Maybe @Martin will know what you can do.
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Re: Week 2: Technique work that shines in your pieces @Phil Goldenberg Thanks for the feedback, Phil. Adding the downbeat at the end of the scale makes a lot of sense. I see no way to do this without repeating a finger (in this case, repeating i).…
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Re: What Guitar do you play? @Martin Do you think the owner would be willing to trade it for my 1973 Hernandez Grade 1A? I'd even throw in the case for free.
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Re: What Guitar do you play? @Steve Pederson That's okay. I ain't done no good in English.
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Re: What Guitar do you play? @Steve Pederson Impressive! Q: How many guitars does one need? A: n+1 (where n = the number of guitars one currently owns)
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Re: Week 2: Technique work that shines in your pieces Technique Exercises from Sor's Andante Largo measure 3 Here are some exercises I could work on using this little snippet. Let me know your thoughts.
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Re: What Guitar do you play? @Blaise Laflamme Stairway to Heaven sounds great on it!
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Re: What Guitar do you play? @Blaise Laflamme That has to be very special being friends with the person who makes your guitars.
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Re: What Guitar do you play? @joosje Your love of the instrument shows in your playing, Joosje!
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Re: What Guitar do you play? @Martin You're very kind! I used to be very into cycling. I owned a fairly good bike. A guy I rode with once in a while owned a bike that cost a small fraction of what mine cost (it even had a…
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Re: What Guitar do you play? The only classical guitar I have ever owned is my 1973 Hernandez Grade No 1A that I bought used in 1989 for $600. I know it is nothing special, but it is very special to me.…
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Re: Week 1: How to practice when there's no time @Jack Stewart
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Re: Week 1: How to practice when there's no time @Jack Stewart Great work. It's really in the groove now.
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Re: Week 1: How to practice when there's no time @Jack Stewart Big improvement, Jack.
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Re: Week 1: How to practice when there's no time Sor's Andante Largo measures 21a and 33 (update June 13) Here is measure 21a at sixteenth-note = 96, and measure 33 at sixteenth-note = 116.
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Re: Sign-Up: Increase your Left-Hand Fitness with Slurs! Sign me up if there are spots left, please!
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Re: Week 1: How to practice when there's no time @Wai Outstanding work, Wai! What a difference! Even without the sound, I can see how much more controlled your finger movements are, with no wasted motion.…
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Re: Week 1: How to practice when there's no time Sor's Andante Largo measures 21a and 33 June 11 update I'm having one of those days when my fingers don't seem to want to do what I ask them to do. Anyone else have those kind of days?…
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Re: Week 1: How to practice when there's no time Sor's Andante Largo measure 33 update (June 10) I am now playing this at 76 on the metronome.
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Re: Week 1: How to practice when there's no time @Phil Goldenberg Hi Phil. Thanks for the fingering tip. I had actually thought of that fingering, but decided against it, as it makes the notes after it (the first inversion Dm chord) more difficult…
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Re: Week 1: How to practice when there's no time Sor's Andante Largo measure 21a update (June 10) Here I bumped the speed up from 54 to 66.
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Re: Week 1: How to practice when there's no time @Dale Needles Huge improvement, Dale!
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Re: Week 1: How to practice when there's no time Sor's Andante Largo measure 33 June 9 Here is another challenging measure from this piece. Obviously, the biggest difficulty is the stretch between the index and pinky on the second beat,…
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