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Re: Week 3: Discovering Hidden Gems Leila-Leila and Gol-e-gandome (June 1) I think both of these are coming along relatively well, and I wanted to try recording them together in one take. I am still needing the score for Leila-Leila,…
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Re: Week 3: Discovering Hidden Gems @Jack Stewart Sounding even better, Jack! Thanks for the score with fingering.
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Re: Week 3: Discovering Hidden Gems @Jack Stewart Not at all. It's amazing how much work goes into arranging for the guitar. The couple times I have tried to arrange non-guitar music have been so bad that I have stopped doing it.…
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Re: Week 3: Discovering Hidden Gems @Jack Stewart Good work, Jack! That is a great arrangement. Thanks for including the score. Is it yours, taken from other peoples'? (I apologize if you already told us in an earlier post.…
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Re: What to do when a performance ISN'T going well! When playing several pieces for others, I am conflicted about what I should start with. From the perspective of engaging an audience (especially one that is not familiar with the genre),…
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Re: Week 2: Delving into Diverse Styles @Jack Stewart I didn't know that about Clapton. I confess that I really like Persian poetry as well, like Rumi and Hafiz.
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Re: Week 2: Delving into Diverse Styles @Derek Great stuff, Derek! I am hearing Tatiana Stachak's name come up several times lately. It seems like a lot of people are discovering her music these days, and rightly so.
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Re: Week 2: Delving into Diverse Styles @Steve Price I love them both, Steve, but I agree that your playing on the Porras song is much better, more expressive. I find much more joy in playing simpler music really well than in playing…
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Re: Week 2: Delving into Diverse Styles Leila-Leila (arr. Afshar) Here is an update on this piece. This time, I have recorded the entire piece, including the part with harmonics at the end. I had to cheat in a couple places by taking out…
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Re: Week 2: Delving into Diverse Styles Gol-e-Gandome and Leila-Leila (arr. Afshar) I am playing Gol-e-Gandome relatively well now, so I have also begun working on a second one of these Persian ballads arranged by Lily Afshar.…
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Re: Week 2: Delving into Diverse Styles @martin Sounds great, Martin! I look forward to seeing that production. Do you know when it will be available? I’ll check out Borbala’s lesson too.
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Re: Week 2: Delving into Diverse Styles @Spare Machine Okay. You could sweep the thumb across the fifth and fourth strings. If I were to leave out a note, I’d leave out the B (second string). Despite being the root of the chord (B7),…
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Re: Week 2: Delving into Diverse Styles @Spare Machine That’s great! It has such a beautiful melody, and I love that it is not just standard repertoire. Making the melody legato seems to be a real challenge.…
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Re: Week 1: Exploring New Territories @Vilio Celli Great choice! This is Tarrega at his most Chopin-esque. You seem to have all the hand movements and shifting down already.
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Re: Week 1: Exploring New Territories @Steve Price Such a beautiful introduction! Can't wait to hear the rest.
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Re: Week 1: Exploring New Territories Gol-e-Gandome (May 20) Here is an update on this Afshar arrangement of a Persian ballad. I am playing it without a score here, but the mistakes show that I need to work still on the memorization.…
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Re: Week 1: Exploring New Territories @Spare Machine That is beautiful, and definitely not something we typically hear in our little world of classical guitar.
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Re: Week 1: Exploring New Territories @Jack Stewart That is gorgeous, Jack! Whose transcription is it?
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Re: Week 1: Exploring New Territories @Steve Price Wow, you really found a lot of possibilities for Costa Rican music. I look forward to hearing what you end up playing!
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Re: Week 1: Exploring New Territories Gol-e-Gandome (arr. Lily Afshar) This is one of five traditional Persian ballads arranged for solo guitar by the great Lily Afshar. I have recently heard three of them, including this one,…
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Re: Week 1: Exploring New Territories @Eva Grill Great choice, and welcome! The nice thing about a theme and variations is that if any of the variations are too difficult, you can just do the others and still have a nice performance.
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Re: Week 1: Exploring New Territories @Jack Stewart Maestro Segovia joins the Metaverse.
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Re: Week 1: Exploring New Territories @Jack Stewart I think you had better change your strings first.
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Re: Week 4: The Grand Finale @Barney That was great, Barney! You have such a great sound for this piece.
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Re: Week 4: The Grand Finale Sor – Le Calme Op 50 (Caprice) May 11 I think I will make this my last posting of this piece for this challenge. But as always, I want to continue working on it.…
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