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Re: Week 1: Play Whatever You Love ☀️🎸
@Eric Phillips Great start with this, Eric. It's certainly a challenging looking piece! Like @Blaise Laflamme I would be hesitant to tackle something with so many trouble spots.…
- Amateur guitarist/lutenist
- David_Krupka
- 3 wk ago
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- Summer Sessions Challenge!
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Re: Score for Bach BWV 998
@Jack Stewart Thanks, Jack!
- Amateur guitarist/lutenist
- David_Krupka
- 3 wk ago
- General Discussion
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Re: Score for Bach BWV 998
Hi Stuart - fellow Torontonian and longtime 'tone-buddy' here. Many editions of Bach's 'lute' works arranged for guitar are available. (I'm not aware of any without fingering, though.…
- Amateur guitarist/lutenist
- David_Krupka
- 3 wk ago
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- General Discussion
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Re: Week 1: Play Whatever You Love ☀️🎸
@Dale Needles I remember his name well, Dale! Lloyd was part of the Jay's 'Killer B' outfield (along with Barfield and Bell). Toronto had a lot of talent in those years,…
- Amateur guitarist/lutenist
- David_Krupka
- 3 wk ago
- Summer Sessions Challenge!
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Re: Week 1: Play Whatever You Love ☀️🎸
@Eric Phillips Very fine performance, Eric! This is such a calming, peaceful sounding lullaby. (I'm surprised it's not better known.) Llobet was certainly an outstanding arranger - I look forward to…
- Amateur guitarist/lutenist
- David_Krupka
- 3 wk ago
- Summer Sessions Challenge!
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Re: Week 1: Play Whatever You Love ☀️🎸
@Blaise Laflamme Beautiful interpretation, Blaise! Your control of the various musical elements - melody, rhythm, harmony - is truly masterful. And as always,…
- Amateur guitarist/lutenist
- David_Krupka
- 3 wk ago
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- Summer Sessions Challenge!
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Re: AI analysis
@Steve Price In recent days, I've been asking Gemini questions (mostly concerning early music) whose answers I already know. I'm fairly impressed with the kinds of responses I'm getting.…
- Amateur guitarist/lutenist
- David_Krupka
- 4 wk ago
- Discussion of the Week!
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Re: AI analysis
@Blaise Laflamme I agree that the feedback seems rather generic, as I suspect is has to be - maybe I'm mistaken, but I don't believe that AI at present is much more than a highly sophisticated search…
- Amateur guitarist/lutenist
- David_Krupka
- 4 wk ago
- 2
- Discussion of the Week!
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Re: AI analysis
@Steve Price My characterization of AI as a cheerleader concerns the video featuring Thomas Viloteau, linked by @Blaise Laflamme . Much of the AI feedback received by @Jeffrey does appear to be…
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- David_Krupka
- 4 wk ago
- Discussion of the Week!
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Re: AI analysis
@Michelle Roper That's why I called AI (at least the version of it portrayed in the video featuring Thomas Viloteau) a 'cheerleader' rather a teacher. Whether AI can be employed as a legitimate…
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- David_Krupka
- 4 wk ago
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- Discussion of the Week!
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Re: AI analysis
@Jeffrey My apologies, Jeffrey, if you found my comment offensive. I meant it only as a response to the video linked by @Blaise Laflamme . The point being made there is that the worse one plays…
- Amateur guitarist/lutenist
- David_Krupka
- 1 mth ago
- 2
- Discussion of the Week!
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Re: AI analysis
@Blaise Laflamme 'Super-boulot' indeed! (And tell me, who in this day and age needs a teacher when you can engage your very own AI cheerleader?)
- Amateur guitarist/lutenist
- David_Krupka
- 1 mth ago
- 2
- Discussion of the Week!
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Re: Week 6: Rise of the Maestro
@Barney Very fine playing indeed, Barney! (It's not very often that we get treated here to such a 'showstopper'!) Concerning the authorship of the Fantasia,…
- Amateur guitarist/lutenist
- David_Krupka
- 2 mths ago
- Unfinished Business Challenge ⚔️
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Re: Mastering Tricky Passages: A Live Q&A on Practice Strategies
@Michelle P There is a very good Tonebase lesson on the Sor etude that @martin was referring to. I don't know if he was actually recommending the study or simply pointing out that it is one that…
- Amateur guitarist/lutenist
- David_Krupka
- 2 mths ago
- 2
- Live Calendar
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Re: Mastering Tricky Passages: A Live Q&A on Practice Strategies
I looked that up during the livestream - it's number 20 of opus 31. (It's also included in that once famous volume of Sor studies selected by Segovia.)
- Amateur guitarist/lutenist
- David_Krupka
- 2 mths ago
- 2
- Live Calendar
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Re: Mastering Tricky Passages: A Live Q&A on Practice Strategies
@mike I'm a long-time member of that particular group, Mike!
- Amateur guitarist/lutenist
- David_Krupka
- 2 mths ago
- 1
- Live Calendar
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Re: Week 4 - Return of the Finisher 🏆
@Jack Stewart Brilliant, Jack - I knew you could be counted on you for a zinger!
- Amateur guitarist/lutenist
- David_Krupka
- 2 mths ago
- Unfinished Business Challenge ⚔️
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Re: Week 4 - Return of the Finisher 🏆
@Jack Stewart '... I fully embrace ...' aaahh - you must be one of those 'method' musicians! I shall have to start thinking of you as the 'Brando of the guitar'!
- Amateur guitarist/lutenist
- David_Krupka
- 2 mths ago
- Unfinished Business Challenge ⚔️
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Re: Week 3 - The Empire Strikes Back ⚔️
@Jack Stewart Oh sure, Jack - blame it on your faithful companion ... 😂
- Amateur guitarist/lutenist
- David_Krupka
- 2 mths ago
- Unfinished Business Challenge ⚔️
- Reported - view
Re: Week 4 - Return of the Finisher 🏆
@Jack Stewart This is really sounding great, Jack. It's such a cool piece - I love the part that 'walks' right up to the highest register of the guitar.…
- Amateur guitarist/lutenist
- David_Krupka
- 2 mths ago
- Unfinished Business Challenge ⚔️
- Reported - view
Re: Week 4 - Return of the Finisher 🏆
@Steve Price I agree with you about the difficulty of playing passages that move at a very slow pace! All of a sudden, the smallest imperfections make themselves apparent,…
- Amateur guitarist/lutenist
- David_Krupka
- 2 mths ago
- Unfinished Business Challenge ⚔️
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Re: Mastering Tricky Passages: A Live Q&A on Practice Strategies
I have a general question for which I'll present two specific examples. The question is: at what point should one decide that a particular problem is insurmountable,…
- Amateur guitarist/lutenist
- David_Krupka
- 2 mths ago
- 1
- Live Calendar
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Re: Week 4 - Return of the Finisher 🏆
@Steve Price Very interesting piece, Steve! I remember you introduced us to Annette's music a while back - I must say I really enjoy her work. (Modern, but accessible.…
- Amateur guitarist/lutenist
- David_Krupka
- 2 mths ago
- Unfinished Business Challenge ⚔️
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Re: Week 4 - Return of the Finisher 🏆
@Dale Needles Thanks for linking this, Dale. I had no idea that this valuable resource existed. It's really interesting to see Carlevaro's very detailed fingering for many of the pieces.…
- Amateur guitarist/lutenist
- David_Krupka
- 2 mths ago
- Unfinished Business Challenge ⚔️
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Re: Week 4 - Return of the Finisher 🏆
@Dale Needles Great start with this one, Dale! Count me among those who thought 'that study doesn't look easy at all'! Those little ornamental turns are really difficult to 'pull off' cleanly.…
- Amateur guitarist/lutenist
- David_Krupka
- 2 mths ago
- Unfinished Business Challenge ⚔️
- Reported - view

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