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Re: Week 1: A Guitar has Six Strings, Right? @Hélène Beaulieu Very nice, Helene (excuse the missing accents - English keyboard). And what an interesting guitar you have! I can't quite make out how many strings it has - it looks to me like nine,…
- David Krupka
- Amateur guitarist/lutenist
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- 3 yrs ago
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- Playing Transcriptions Challenge!
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Re: Learning a piece @Kevin Mudd I certainly agree that music theory is not rocket science! For the motivated learner, a lot of ground can be covered in a few months. I subscribe however to the idea that theory is best…
- David Krupka
- Amateur guitarist/lutenist
- David_Krupka
- 3 yrs ago
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- General Discussion
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Re: Learning a piece I wouldn't let this hold you up, Nikhil. To learn all the theory you need to make a harmonic analysis of a piece like Lagrima will take a long time. For the present purpose,…
- David Krupka
- Amateur guitarist/lutenist
- David_Krupka
- 3 yrs ago
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- General Discussion
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Re: Interactive Class: Best Balance – How to highlight musical priorities In polyphonic passages, it is often difficult (if not impossible) to maintain the full note duration of every voice. Sometimes a note simply has to be cut short.…
- David Krupka
- Amateur guitarist/lutenist
- David_Krupka
- 3 yrs ago
- Live Calendar
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Re: DRESS REHEARSAL for the tonebase Community Concert @ivan paolo Hi Ivan. Just to be clear, I am not suggesting that the current program be changed (although perhaps it could be expanded). Rather, I hope that future Community Concerts will be…
- David Krupka
- Amateur guitarist/lutenist
- David_Krupka
- 3 yrs ago
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- Live Calendar
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Re: DRESS REHEARSAL for the tonebase Community Concert If I may offer a candid opinion, it would seem to me preferable to provide more than eight spots on the program, but to restrict individual performances either to a single piece only,…
- David Krupka
- Amateur guitarist/lutenist
- David_Krupka
- 3 yrs ago
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- Live Calendar
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Re: Kick-Off for the Happy Holidays Challenge! @Martha Kreipke I had similar thoughts, Martha. Perhaps in the future Tonebase might choose to make this a more inclusive 'seasonal' challenge?
- David Krupka
- Amateur guitarist/lutenist
- David_Krupka
- 3 yrs ago
- Live Calendar
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Re: Julia Trintschuk: Preparing for Competitions! My question concerns the value of competitions. For aspiring professionals, I guess it is a way of life; but what about for amateurs, particularly amateurs who are no longer young and have no wish…
- David Krupka
- Amateur guitarist/lutenist
- David_Krupka
- 3 yrs ago
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- Live Calendar
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Re: Last-Minute Learning As an amateur, I rarely (if ever) find myself in the position of 'needing' to learn a piece by some artificial deadline. Still, I don't like spending weeks on end working on the same bit of…
- David Krupka
- Amateur guitarist/lutenist
- David_Krupka
- 3 yrs ago
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- Live Calendar
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Re: 20 Sor Studies (Segovia) That's a BIG project, Eric. A teacher put me through this way back when! I think I managed to play about half of them acceptably well; the rest were a real struggle.…
- David Krupka
- Amateur guitarist/lutenist
- David_Krupka
- 3 yrs ago
- 1
- Your Practice Diary
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Re: Welcome to tonebase! @màiri Hi Mairi, welcome to the community! There's no real 'standard' here - people play at a variety of levels, but we're all learning. (Some of us are re-learning - for myself,…
- David Krupka
- Amateur guitarist/lutenist
- David_Krupka
- 3 yrs ago
- 1
- New to tonebase? Click Here!
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Re: Sor Op 60 No 23 @Eric Phillips Sounds good, Eric. I've read through this study once or twice myself, but have never been able to make good sense of it. You're really managing to bring out the 'music'.…
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- David_Krupka
- 3 yrs ago
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Re: Yoda's order @don Beautiful piece, Don. It's really coming together nicely.
- David Krupka
- Amateur guitarist/lutenist
- David_Krupka
- 3 yrs ago
- 1
- Your Practice Diary
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Re: Strings in-depth! @Srinath Subrahmanyan As it happens, I also have an old Hirade, made before the Takamine trademark was included. My parents bought it for me years ago, and it remains in their home,…
- David Krupka
- Amateur guitarist/lutenist
- David_Krupka
- 3 yrs ago
- Livestream Ideas
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Re: Sor Op 60 No 16 @Eric Phillips Very nice playing, Eric! This has long been one of my favourite studies by Sor. You really handle those ornaments well - especially that tricky quintuplet!
- David Krupka
- Amateur guitarist/lutenist
- David_Krupka
- 3 yrs ago
- 1
- Your Practice Diary
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Re: Sor Op 60 No 20 @Eric Phillips Lovely, Eric. I first encountered this study in one of Frederick Noad's anthologies, where it was presented as an 'alternative' to the more famous study in the same key ( from opus…
- David Krupka
- Amateur guitarist/lutenist
- David_Krupka
- 3 yrs ago
- 1
- Your Practice Diary
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Re: Strings in-depth! @Srinath Subrahmanyan As far as I know, 'Strings by Mail' (based in the US) has world-wide delivery. They have a good selection of strings (and other accessories) and their prices are usually quite…
- David Krupka
- Amateur guitarist/lutenist
- David_Krupka
- 3 yrs ago
- Livestream Ideas
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Re: Jack's Personal Practice Dairy - and cow farm (opps) @Jack Stewart Weiss was quite prolific. I have read that something like 600 individual pieces have survived, making his output similar to that of his famous contemporary, Domenico Scarlatti.…
- David Krupka
- Amateur guitarist/lutenist
- David_Krupka
- 3 yrs ago
- Your Practice Diary
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Re: Jack's Personal Practice Dairy - and cow farm (opps) @Jack Stewart I'll take (friendly) issue with your here, Jack. Agreed, Weiss' overall achievement does not stand up to Bach's. But if we restrict the conversation to the lute music I would argue…
- David Krupka
- Amateur guitarist/lutenist
- David_Krupka
- 3 yrs ago
- Your Practice Diary
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Re: Jack's Personal Practice Dairy - and cow farm (opps) @Bill Young In the original tablature, it's a diminished triad (D-D-F-D-B-F-D-B-F-D) rising to a 'G', giving the impression of a second inversion dominant seventh, as Bill points out.…
- David Krupka
- Amateur guitarist/lutenist
- David_Krupka
- 3 yrs ago
- Your Practice Diary
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Re: Nora's practice diary "Fantasias" @Nora Torres-Nagel That's an astute observation about EM's handling of the tempo, Nora. Luis Milan, in a brief comment on one of the fantasias in 'El Maestro' writes 'las consonancias despacio y los…
- David Krupka
- Amateur guitarist/lutenist
- David_Krupka
- 3 yrs ago
- Your Practice Diary
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Re: Nora's practice diary "Fantasias" @Barney What is certain is that the campanella passages are not in the original, which was notated in tablature, so there is no doubt about where the notes are intended to be played.…
- David Krupka
- Amateur guitarist/lutenist
- David_Krupka
- 3 yrs ago
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- Your Practice Diary
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Re: Nora's practice diary "Fantasias" @Nora Torres-Nagel Beautiful, Nora! The music is flowing very nicely now - it's much smoother than the first recordings you shared with us. It's interesting to hear about Ludovico.…
- David Krupka
- Amateur guitarist/lutenist
- David_Krupka
- 3 yrs ago
- Your Practice Diary
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Re: Jack's Sauguet's Solilique (with assist from Milo) @Jack Stewart Well done, Jack! I remember coming across that (or a very similar) anthology in my local library. I didn't borrow it - I lack any affinity for playing that repertoire,…
- David Krupka
- Amateur guitarist/lutenist
- David_Krupka
- 3 yrs ago
- Your Practice Diary
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Re: Carulli Larghetto in G minor Op 192 @Eric Phillips A pdf of Trepat's arrangement can be found here (not sure if there's any copyright infringement):…
- David Krupka
- Amateur guitarist/lutenist
- David_Krupka
- 3 yrs ago
- 1
- Your Practice Diary
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David Krupka

David_Krupka

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