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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
- 4 wk 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.…
- Amateur guitarist/lutenist
- David_Krupka
- 4 wk 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
- 4 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 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,…
- Amateur guitarist/lutenist
- David_Krupka
- 4 wk 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
- 1 mth 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.
- Amateur guitarist/lutenist
- David_Krupka
- 1 mth 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
- 1 mth 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
- 1 mth 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
- 1 mth 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
- 1 mth ago
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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
- 1 mth 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
- 1 mth ago
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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
- 1 mth ago
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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
- 1 mth ago
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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.
- Amateur guitarist/lutenist
- David_Krupka
- 1 mth 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
- 1 mth ago
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- 🎯 The Etude Challenge
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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
- 1 mth ago
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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
- 1 mth 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
- 1 mth 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
- 1 mth ago
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- 🎯 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').…
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- 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 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.…
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- David_Krupka
- 1 mth ago
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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…
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- 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
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
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- 🎯 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
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