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Re: Scale Technique: Building Speed, Tone, and Fretboard Fluency
@Martin Thanks, Martin - this is very helpful!
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- David_Krupka
- 12 hrs ago
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Re: 🎯 The Etude Challenge: Study Pieces, Serious Progress - Week 3
@Debbie I think it's a common mistake in conservatories to 'push' students to learn repertoire that is a little too challenging for them. For one thing, as you indicate, it likely just creates trauma.…
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- David_Krupka
- 5 days ago
- 🎯 The Etude Challenge
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Re: 🎯 The Etude Challenge: Study Pieces, Serious Progress - Week 3
@Blaise Laflamme Yes, I always thought the same thing. Today perhaps I would prefer the Adagio from the violin suite 1001 as the 'prelude' - but I'm not sure that would make sense without the…
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- David_Krupka
- 5 days ago
- 🎯 The Etude Challenge
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Re: 🎯 The Etude Challenge: Study Pieces, Serious Progress - Week 3
@Debbie Now don't go dissing' my man Dowland! 😂 (Especially it being his 400th anniversary and all ...) But I know what you mean - that opening phrase in the Q.E.…
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- David_Krupka
- 5 days ago
- 🎯 The Etude Challenge
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Re: 🎯 The Etude Challenge: Study Pieces, Serious Progress - Week 3
@Blaise Laflamme I used to pair this prelude (as Bream once did (and also, on lute, Jakob Lindberg)) with the fugue, BWV 1000. I think they work well together, even if this wasn't Bach's intention.…
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- David_Krupka
- 5 days ago
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- 🎯 The Etude Challenge
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Re: 🎯 The Etude Challenge: Study Pieces, Serious Progress - Week 6
@Blaise Laflamme Thanks Blaise! For the moment the guitar is simply one of many on my 'wish list'. Another item on my 'wish list' is having something like the 'Grand Salon' here in Toronto.…
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- David_Krupka
- 5 days ago
- 🎯 The Etude Challenge
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Re: 🎯 The Etude Challenge: Study Pieces, Serious Progress - Week 6
@Jack Stewart Wow - that looks like a real workout for the left hand! You're really handling it well - as Blaise said, the 'sense' of the music is becoming quite apparent now.
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- David_Krupka
- 5 days ago
- 🎯 The Etude Challenge
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Re: Some AI fun
It's not a bad joke! Of course it exaggerates ad absurdum, but it captures a kernel of truth. Of course, in reality, Sor was by all accounts an impressive public performer - the king should have…
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- David_Krupka
- 5 days ago
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- General Discussion
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Re: 🎯 The Etude Challenge: Study Pieces, Serious Progress - Week 6
@Eric Phillips I agree - it's a beautiful little study, the sort of piece that all too often gets overlooked. I also read through a number of the studies after your post.…
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- David_Krupka
- 5 days ago
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- 🎯 The Etude Challenge
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Re: 🎯 The Etude Challenge: Study Pieces, Serious Progress - Week 6
@Debbie Thanks, Debbie! Great idea to go directly to the manufacturer! For the moment, I'll an eye open for one in the used guitar market here in Toronto - over the years I've come across some…
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- David_Krupka
- 5 days ago
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- 🎯 The Etude Challenge
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Re: 🎯 The Etude Challenge: Study Pieces, Serious Progress - Week 6
@Eric Phillips Well played, Eric! I also find with Aguado's music that one has to adapt the fingering. He seems to have had an incredibly flexible left hand.…
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- David_Krupka
- 5 days ago
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- 🎯 The Etude Challenge
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Re: 🎯 The Etude Challenge: Study Pieces, Serious Progress - Week 6
@Eric Phillips Thanks also from me for highlighting the Guitar Coop channel. I was aware of it, but hadn't watched any of their videos for quite a long time.…
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- David_Krupka
- 5 days ago
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- 🎯 The Etude Challenge
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Re: 🎯 The Etude Challenge: Study Pieces, Serious Progress - Week 5
@Ariel Elijovich Just a note about the use of the 'a' finger in the early 19th century. As you mention, Sor argued against it (except, as far as I know in special cases,…
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- David_Krupka
- 6 days ago
- 🎯 The Etude Challenge
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Re: 🎯 The Etude Challenge: Study Pieces, Serious Progress - Week 6
@Debbie Beautiful playing, Debbie! Just for the record, the relative 'lack' of sustain of your guitar is something I particularly like here! I think the modern guitar doesn't really permit us to hear…
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- David_Krupka
- 6 days ago
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- 🎯 The Etude Challenge
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Re: 🎯 The Etude Challenge: Study Pieces, Serious Progress - Week 6
@Robert Love Looking forward to it, Robert! It's always great to 'see' new faces here in the community forum.
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- David_Krupka
- 6 days ago
- 🎯 The Etude Challenge
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Re: 🎯 The Etude Challenge: Study Pieces, Serious Progress - Week 5
@Andre Bernier Just to reiterate what others have already said: this is a BIG improvement in all respects - not just technical, but musical as well. I look forward to hearing the piece by Sor!
- Amateur guitarist/lutenist
- David_Krupka
- 2 wk ago
- 🎯 The Etude Challenge
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Re: 🎯 The Etude Challenge: Study Pieces, Serious Progress - Week 5
@Eric Phillips I did mean when I wrote the comment that slurs from open strings could be played by dragging a single finger across the two strings (sort of like sweep picking,…
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- David_Krupka
- 2 wk ago
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- 🎯 The Etude Challenge
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Re: 🎯 The Etude Challenge: Study Pieces, Serious Progress - Week 5
@Eric Phillips Very nice, Eric. Really great tone in the treble! Curiously perhaps, if you hadn't mentioned anything about your right hand issues, I would not have noticed anything unusual.…
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- David_Krupka
- 2 wk ago
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- 🎯 The Etude Challenge
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Re: 🎯 The Etude Challenge: Study Pieces, Serious Progress - Week 5
@Ariel Elijovich A very interesting interpretation, Ariel. My first impression was that this is far too fast, but on repeated listenings I find it works very well! In some respects,…
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- David_Krupka
- 2 wk ago
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- 🎯 The Etude Challenge
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Re: 🎯 The Etude Challenge: Study Pieces, Serious Progress - Week 5
@Dale Needles Well, Paul McCartney doesn't read or write music either. I guess if you have real talent, it's unnecessary. (And for some of us, I'm afraid, it's a substitute for actual talent ...)
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- David_Krupka
- 2 wk ago
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- 🎯 The Etude Challenge
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Re: 🎯 The Etude Challenge: Study Pieces, Serious Progress - Week 5
@Dale Needles A very interesting musical sketch, Dale! (And very well performed and recorded too!) I've listened to it half a dozen times already - it's effect is somehow hypnotic.…
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- David_Krupka
- 2 wk ago
- 🎯 The Etude Challenge
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Re: 🎯 The Etude Challenge: Study Pieces, Serious Progress - Week 5
@Ariel Elijovich And I should add also that your mother is a wonderful pianist! (Thanks for sharing the link.) You were privileged indeed to grow up in such a family!
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- David_Krupka
- 2 wk ago
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- 🎯 The Etude Challenge
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Re: 🎯 The Etude Challenge: Study Pieces, Serious Progress - Week 5
@Ariel Elijovich It's very interesting to learn in such personal detail how (and why) you approach music the way you do, Ariel! Like both Eric and Michael,…
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- David_Krupka
- 2 wk ago
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- 🎯 The Etude Challenge
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Re: 🎯 The Etude Challenge: Study Pieces, Serious Progress - Week 5
@Michael Shirk Very nice, Michael! This is among my favourite Carcassi studies. Like Eric, I find the tempo appropriate, and I love the way you let the music really 'breath' in places.
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- David_Krupka
- 2 wk ago
- 🎯 The Etude Challenge
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Re: 🎯 The Etude Challenge: Study Pieces, Serious Progress - Week 4
@Ariel Elijovich Thanks for the detailed reply, Ariel. Perhaps I misunderstand what you mean by articulation, which I take to refer to the manner in which a particular note is produced (legato,…
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- David_Krupka
- 3 wk ago
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- 🎯 The Etude Challenge
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