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Re: 🎯 The Etude Challenge: Study Pieces, Serious Progress - Week 4
@Ariel Elijovich I enjoyed your performance here, Ariel, although I disagree with your idea that by applying modern principles of performance to older music we are taking it 'up a notch'.…
- Amateur guitarist/lutenist
- David_Krupka
- 3 wk ago
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- 🎯 The Etude Challenge
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Re: 🎯 The Etude Challenge: Study Pieces, Serious Progress - Week 4
@Eric Phillips I did notice this but I haven't had time to listen to it yet. I am looking forward to it, though! Thanks for sharing the link!
- Amateur guitarist/lutenist
- David_Krupka
- 3 wk ago
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- 🎯 The Etude Challenge
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Re: 🎯 The Etude Challenge: Study Pieces, Serious Progress - Week 4
@Eric Phillips Sounds like a plan! The only problem I see is that half of zero is still zero ...
- Amateur guitarist/lutenist
- David_Krupka
- 3 wk ago
- 🎯 The Etude Challenge
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Re: 🎯 The Etude Challenge: Study Pieces, Serious Progress - Week 4
@Eric Phillips I love it! (I think there's a bright future for you on Madison Avenue, Eric!)
- Amateur guitarist/lutenist
- David_Krupka
- 3 wk ago
- 1
- 🎯 The Etude Challenge
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Re: 🎯 The Etude Challenge: Study Pieces, Serious Progress - Week 4
@Eric Phillips Very nice, Eric! I see no reason to exclude it from ... er, 'Sor Studies 2.0' (or maybe '20 more Sor Studies' or how about '20 Studies by Sor I can actually manage to play').…
- Amateur guitarist/lutenist
- David_Krupka
- 4 wk ago
- 1
- 🎯 The Etude Challenge
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Re: 🎯 The Etude Challenge: Study Pieces, Serious Progress - Week 3
@Eric Phillips Thanks Eric! I thought I had heard him playing this etude, but when I looked for it a week or two ago, I couldn't find it, and thought I must been mistaken.…
- Amateur guitarist/lutenist
- David_Krupka
- 1 mth ago
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- 🎯 The Etude Challenge
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Re: 🎯 The Etude Challenge: Study Pieces, Serious Progress - Week 3
@Eric Phillips Very fine playing, Eric. As for tempo, I think that Sor's music is of sufficient quality to permit a variety of interpretative choices. I like the hint of melancholy that perfuses your…
- Amateur guitarist/lutenist
- David_Krupka
- 1 mth ago
- 1
- 🎯 The Etude Challenge
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Re: 🎯 The Etude Challenge: Study Pieces, Serious Progress - Week 3
Well played, Jack! An interesting piece by a composer whose music I am unfamiliar with. It sure doesn't look easy!
- Amateur guitarist/lutenist
- David_Krupka
- 1 mth ago
- 1
- 🎯 The Etude Challenge
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Re: Livestreams are too long!
@Martin Thanks for entering the discussion, Martin. I'll repeat here something I've suggested before: the livestreams would benefit from having a second person involved,…
- Amateur guitarist/lutenist
- David_Krupka
- 1 mth ago
- General Discussion
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Re: 🎯 The Etude Challenge: Study Pieces, Serious Progress - Week 2
@Andre Bernier A very solid start with these, Andre! What strikes me in particular is how well disciplined your fingers appear to be now, as compared to, say, a year ago.…
- Amateur guitarist/lutenist
- David_Krupka
- 1 mth ago
- 🎯 The Etude Challenge
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Re: 🎯 The Etude Challenge: Study Pieces, Serious Progress - Week 2
@Blaise Laflamme You've left me wondering just what it sounds like ...
- Amateur guitarist/lutenist
- David_Krupka
- 1 mth ago
- 🎯 The Etude Challenge
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Re: 🎯 The Etude Challenge: Study Pieces, Serious Progress - Week 2
@Eric Phillips That's a nice thought, Eric, but I don't think it would sell. Maybe 'lovingly selected by the 'Friends of Sor' would work.
- Amateur guitarist/lutenist
- David_Krupka
- 1 mth ago
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- 🎯 The Etude Challenge
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Re: 🎯 The Etude Challenge: Study Pieces, Serious Progress - Week 2
@Eric Phillips This is sounding very good, Eric! (As usual, I'm impressed by how cleanly you execute the ornamentation.) And it's such a beautiful study - I'm surprised it isn't performed more often.…
- Amateur guitarist/lutenist
- David_Krupka
- 1 mth ago
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- 🎯 The Etude Challenge
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Re: New Member Orientation and Q&A
@Andy You are making some very good points, Andy! (Don't expect anything to change anytime soon, though ...) If you're not sure where to begin here, join us (the tone base guitar 'community') in the…
- Amateur guitarist/lutenist
- David_Krupka
- 1 mth ago
- New to tonebase? Click Here!
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Re: 🎯 The Etude Challenge: Study Pieces, Serious Progress - Week 2
@Debbie The mistakes probably have less to do with Sor than with the publishers' typesetters, who weren't necessarily musicians. (There would also have been a copyist involved somewhere along the…
- Amateur guitarist/lutenist
- David_Krupka
- 1 mth ago
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- 🎯 The Etude Challenge
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Re: 🎯 The Etude Challenge: Study Pieces, Serious Progress - Week 2
@Eric Phillips Like others here, I enjoy these short videos describing your approach to specific problems that arise in the music you are learning. I love your attention to detail - and it certainly…
- Amateur guitarist/lutenist
- David_Krupka
- 1 mth ago
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- 🎯 The Etude Challenge
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Re: 🎯 The Etude Challenge: Study Pieces, Serious Progress - Week 1
@Michel I'll 'third' the recommendation for Emmanuel Sowicz! (My favourite 'teacher' here on ToneBase.)
- Amateur guitarist/lutenist
- David_Krupka
- 1 mth ago
- 2
- 🎯 The Etude Challenge
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Re: 🎯 The Etude Challenge: Study Pieces, Serious Progress - Week 1
@Jack Stewart Hi Jack - the link works for me.
- Amateur guitarist/lutenist
- David_Krupka
- 1 mth ago
- 🎯 The Etude Challenge
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Re: Villa-Lobos Etude No. 1: Arpeggio Mastery and Beyond
@Ariel Elijovich I also think this particular thread risks unwinding in a not altogether constructive manner. But for the record, I do agree with Ariel here - Segovia is simply one figure in the long…
- Amateur guitarist/lutenist
- David_Krupka
- 1 mth ago
- 2
- Live Calendar
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Re: 🎯 The Etude Challenge: Study Pieces, Serious Progress - Week 1
@Nijwm Bwiswmuthiary I should have included 'ease of execution' in my list of things to consider - in most cases, that will be the determining factor!
- Amateur guitarist/lutenist
- David_Krupka
- 1 mth ago
- 2
- 🎯 The Etude Challenge
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Re: 🎯 The Etude Challenge: Study Pieces, Serious Progress - Week 1
@Nijwm Bwiswmuthiary I don't think there's a general rule here, Nijwm. Each particular case is likely to have its own particular solution. (And remember,…
- Amateur guitarist/lutenist
- David_Krupka
- 1 mth ago
- 🎯 The Etude Challenge
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Re: Sarabande «La Nostalgique» - Suzie Auclair
Beautiful playing, Blaise! But let me see if I understand this correctly: luthiers come to your home, proffering the latest example of their craft; composers entrust to you their scores,…
- Amateur guitarist/lutenist
- David_Krupka
- 2 mths ago
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- Your Practice Diary
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Re: Welcome to tonebase!
@Uli Welcome to ToneBase, Uli. It's nice to have a new member from East Africa - we're becoming a truly international community! I hope you will join us in the various activities that occur here:…
- Amateur guitarist/lutenist
- David_Krupka
- 7 mths ago
- New to tonebase? Click Here!
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Re: Mastering Tricky Passages with Martin
@Debbie It's worth remembering that Sor (according to Coste, who knew him fairly well) had an unusual capacity for left hand extensions. Coste considered most of Sor's concert works to be essentially…
- Amateur guitarist/lutenist
- David_Krupka
- 8 mths ago
- 2
- Live Calendar
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Re: Welcome to tonebase!
@Albert H Rowe Nice to 'meet' you, Albert. Concerning your question about where to begin in what can seem a labyrinth of material, I think that depends on where you stand, so to speak,…
- Amateur guitarist/lutenist
- David_Krupka
- 9 mths ago
- New to tonebase? Click Here!
- Reported - view

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