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Re: Week 1: Rhythmic Revelations 🥁🎸
@Eric Phillips Well played, Eric. I find it works well at your tempo. Jeffrey's version is impressive, but could anyone actually dance to it? Without amphetamines, I seriously doubt it.…
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- David_Krupka
- 2 yrs ago
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- The Song and Dance Challenge 💃🕺
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Re: Week 1: Rhythmic Revelations 🥁🎸
@Eric Phillips Well done, Eric! Have you considered using some p-i alternation here? I at least find the little 16th note ornaments easier to execute in this manner.…
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- David_Krupka
- 2 yrs ago
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- The Song and Dance Challenge 💃🕺
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Re: When is your favorite time of day to Practice?
@Nijwm Bwiswmuthiary In the world of classical guitar, the ability to read music is an essential skill. It's best to master it as soon as possible. It sounds to me like you are taking the right…
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- David_Krupka
- 2 yrs ago
- Discussion of the Week!
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Re: Week 1: Rhythmic Revelations 🥁🎸
@don Nice performances, Don. I really enjoyed the 'Moon River' arrangement. It suits the guitar so well! I guess you're playing it in standard tuning, rather than with the 6th raised a half-step?
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- David_Krupka
- 2 yrs ago
- The Song and Dance Challenge 💃🕺
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Re: Week 1: Rhythmic Revelations 🥁🎸
@Michael Shirk Great start here, Michael! I don't think you're too far from a final tempo. It's definitely a tricky piece, what with the recurring three against two in the meter.…
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- David_Krupka
- 2 yrs ago
- The Song and Dance Challenge 💃🕺
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Re: Week 1: Rhythmic Revelations 🥁🎸
@Martin That's an excellent demonstration of how to approach technical difficulties in a practical manner, Martin! (And it's somehow reassuring to know that a piece like this offers challenges even…
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- David_Krupka
- 2 yrs ago
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Re: Week 1: Rhythmic Revelations 🥁🎸
@Calin Lupa Nice energetic performance, Calin! Beldinsky was a Soviet guitarist, born in 1927. He founded a guitar academy in his native Lugansk, a city in the news for less happy reasons these days.…
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- David_Krupka
- 2 yrs ago
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Re: Week 1: Rhythmic Revelations 🥁🎸
You raise some interesting issues, Steve. One thing I would point out is that the 'Canario' dance had been popular in Europe for about a hundred years by the time Sanz set his now well-known version…
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- David_Krupka
- 2 yrs ago
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Re: Week 1: Rhythmic Revelations 🥁🎸
@Steve Price I found the image online. It’s remarkably well done, although I don’t think the Roland D50 was around ‘63! The Telecaster is appropriate, though.
- Amateur guitarist/lutenist
- David_Krupka
- 2 yrs ago
- The Song and Dance Challenge 💃🕺
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Re: When is your favorite time of day to Practice?
@Nijwm Bwiswmuthiary that’s right, in classical guitar notation, the Roman numerals do not represent scale degree, as they do in, for example, harmonic analysis.…
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- David_Krupka
- 2 yrs ago
- Discussion of the Week!
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Re: Week 1: Rhythmic Revelations 🥁🎸
@joosje it’s already sounding good, Joosje. I know of the piece through Cinzia Milani’s performance for Siccas Guitars. I’m surprised to hear it’s not technically difficult,…
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- David_Krupka
- 2 yrs ago
- The Song and Dance Challenge 💃🕺
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Re: Week 1: Rhythmic Revelations 🥁🎸
@Steve Price that’s more or less what I thought too, Steve. Btw, I don’t mean to be snooping, but is that a framed picture of Jack Ruby shooting Lee Harvey Oswald on your wall!?
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- David_Krupka
- 2 yrs ago
- The Song and Dance Challenge 💃🕺
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Re: When is your favorite time of day to Practice?
@Nijwm Bwiswmuthiary they refer to the position on the fretboard at which the scale is to be executed. So the ‘VII’ above the first line indicates that your first finger should be at the seventh fret…
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- David_Krupka
- 2 yrs ago
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Re: Week 1: Rhythmic Revelations 🥁🎸
@Dale Needles interesting pieces, Dale! I don’t think I’ve heard either of them before. Although short, they don’t appear easy - the first in particular looks like quite a workout for the left hand.…
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- David_Krupka
- 2 yrs ago
- The Song and Dance Challenge 💃🕺
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Re: Week 1: Rhythmic Revelations 🥁🎸
@Dale Needles Wow - that must have been a great experience, Dale! I think if I had ever had such an opportunity I would’ve been too nervous to even hold a guitar, let alone play!
- Amateur guitarist/lutenist
- David_Krupka
- 2 yrs ago
- The Song and Dance Challenge 💃🕺
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Re: Week 1: Rhythmic Revelations 🥁🎸
@Steve Price Nicely played, Steve! The Brouwer piece really ‘rocks’! And it’s great to hear this rarely performed lullaby by Lauro. As it happens, I sight-read through it just the other day and…
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- David_Krupka
- 2 yrs ago
- The Song and Dance Challenge 💃🕺
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Re: When is your favorite time of day to Practice?
@Blaise Laflamme Three times a day!? No wonder you play so well! For some reason, I’m reminded of a line from Woody Allen: (paraphrasing} ‘as a child, I wanted to be a great violinist, like Heifetz.…
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- David_Krupka
- 2 yrs ago
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Re: Video(s) of the day/week/month
@Eric Phillips I agree, Eric, although I don't think the selection should be random. But most definitely, everyone should be allowed their moment in the 'limelight'.…
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- David_Krupka
- 2 yrs ago
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- General Discussion
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Video(s) of the day/week/month

As someone who has yet to contribute a video to the ongoing challenges (I do expect this to change!) it's probably not my place to be suggesting this, but I'll do so anyways.…
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- David_Krupka
- 2 yrs ago
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Re: Week 1: Rhythmic Revelations 🥁🎸
@David Krupka It seems I'm mistaken about a second piece. I notice too that this Sarabande, written late in Poulenc's (rather too short) life, is dedicated to Ida Presti.…
- Amateur guitarist/lutenist
- David_Krupka
- 2 yrs ago
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- The Song and Dance Challenge 💃🕺
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Re: Week 1: Rhythmic Revelations 🥁🎸
@Eric Phillips I could be wrong about a second piece. I might be confusing it with something by Jacques Ibert. I'll try to confirm this.
- Amateur guitarist/lutenist
- David_Krupka
- 2 yrs ago
- The Song and Dance Challenge 💃🕺
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Re: Week 1: Rhythmic Revelations 🥁🎸
@Steve Price I mean it's all too easy to play those six open strings without any real musical direction. Because the ending is technically easy, it's tempting to just stop thinking!…
- Amateur guitarist/lutenist
- David_Krupka
- 2 yrs ago
- The Song and Dance Challenge 💃🕺
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Re: Week 1: Rhythmic Revelations 🥁🎸
Very well played, Eric! Beautiful tone throughout, and very nice phrasing. (And bravo for making the ending work!) It's an interesting piece, but feels to me a little like an interlude:…
- Amateur guitarist/lutenist
- David_Krupka
- 2 yrs ago
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- The Song and Dance Challenge 💃🕺
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Re: Week 4: Harmonic Heights 🎸
@Barney I agree with Eric - this is really a fine performance, Barney! 👋👋 (Do it in the purple suit, and you will soon be a YouTube mega-star!!)
- Amateur guitarist/lutenist
- David_Krupka
- 2 yrs ago
- The Transcriptions Chalenge
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Re: Spanish Music Mini Challenge 🔥
@Steve Pederson The I-IV-V-I progression has been around for a while, Steve. I'm pretty sure it predates the 12-bar blues. (Mind you, the blues are probably older than we realize, too.…
- Amateur guitarist/lutenist
- David_Krupka
- 2 yrs ago
- Spanish Music Mini Challenge
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