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Re: WEEK 1: Select And Practice Your Piece!
@joosje Thanks joosje. I think you're right about the piece, but it's a little harder than I thought since it feels so exposed. There's no place to hide all my usual mistakes, lol.
Steve Price
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2 yrs ago
End-Of-The-Year Concert Challenge!
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Re: WEEK 1: Select And Practice Your Piece!
@Jack Stewart Thanks Jack. I've been referring to that recording the composer's son made when I had questions about how to play something. I think he recorded that a couple of years after his dad…
Steve Price
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2 yrs ago
End-Of-The-Year Concert Challenge!
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Re: Group 1
Hi Borbala, Thanks for your feedback so far. Attached are the other exercises. The note accentuation exercise really showed I have an independence issue so I'm only doing your pre-exercise for the…
Steve Price
Steve_Price
2 yrs ago
Perfecting Musical Expression with Borbála Seres
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Re: WEEK 1: Select And Practice Your Piece!
@martin That piece is a beast. Very cool.
Steve Price
Steve_Price
2 yrs ago
End-Of-The-Year Concert Challenge!
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Re: WEEK 1: Select And Practice Your Piece!
I'm working on Paco Talarn's Canco Trista. It's such a great mix of tragedy and hope. I've always loved it but avoided playing it since I mostly stuck to fingered pieces,…
Steve Price
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2 yrs ago
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Re: WEEK 1: Select And Practice Your Piece!
@Steve Pederson Really nice on these. I thought Winter Wonderland is a great fun arrangement with that mix of crazy jazzy extended chords and finger picking. Very cool.…
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End-Of-The-Year Concert Challenge!
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Re: WEEK 1: Select And Practice Your Piece!
@Robert This is coming along really well. Such a pretty piece.
Steve Price
Steve_Price
2 yrs ago
End-Of-The-Year Concert Challenge!
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Re: WEEK 1: Select And Practice Your Piece!
@Robert Really nice. This is why Brouwer is so interesting to me. His catalog contains these beautiful melodic pieces but also some really jarring avant garde works but it all sits on the guitar so…
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2 yrs ago
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Re: WEEK 1: Select And Practice Your Piece!
@Eric Phillips Love how this is coming together. To me a lot of Sor is deceptively simple and this is one of those pieces. Seeing the score I'm like, "I got this,…
Steve Price
Steve_Price
2 yrs ago
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End-Of-The-Year Concert Challenge!
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Re: Group 1
Hi Borbala, so glad to see you doing this session. I didn't realize I'd cropped my right hand out of the videos so I'm going to re-record the first three exercises.…
Steve Price
Steve_Price
2 yrs ago
Perfecting Musical Expression with Borbála Seres
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Re: Landslag I by Gulli Björnsson
Really nice in a lot of ways. The playing is fantastic but so is the sound of the guitar and the quality of the recording. Congrats and thanks for sharing.
Steve Price
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2 yrs ago
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Your Practice Diary
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Re: Level 7 - List Of Pieces (+ Discussion Space)
That's a really interesting quiz to pick out what I need to work on. I think the level is pretty accurate and I can play several of the pieces on this list...maybe not to concert readiness, but close.…
Steve Price
Steve_Price
2 yrs ago
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Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: PERFECTING MUSICAL EXPRESSION WITH BORBÁLA SERES
Excellent! So this was what she meant when she told me you were a mind reader @martin lol. Looking forward to it.
Steve Price
Steve_Price
2 yrs ago
General Information and Sign-Up!
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Re: Group 2
Trying to keep my wrist a little higher. It's not noticable in the videos but there seems to be an improvement in volume and tone with a higher wrist. I noticed in the video my a finger moves with…
Steve Price
Steve_Price
2 yrs ago
Right-Hand Cross-String with Tengyue Zhang aka TY
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Re: Group 2
@Steve Pederson Thanks Steve. I actually had one recorded with m-i but I noticed a ton of clicking on the strings so I had to troubleshoot that. I'm a big fan of playing all the combinations of i, m,…
Steve Price
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2 yrs ago
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Right-Hand Cross-String with Tengyue Zhang aka TY
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Re: Group 2
Here's a take of the exercise. I'm a new convert to using rest strokes for more passages than just accents but I find my hand position is quite different with my knuckles being directly over the…
Steve Price
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2 yrs ago
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Right-Hand Cross-String with Tengyue Zhang aka TY
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Re: Group 2
@Peter It's not fancy, but here's what I wrote out. With the exception of the high a's it appears the fingering is straight ahead in first position (1 always on 1st fret 2 on 2nd fret, etc).…
Steve Price
Steve_Price
2 yrs ago
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Right-Hand Cross-String with Tengyue Zhang aka TY
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Re: Group 2
Great exercise. Looking forward to working it up.
Steve Price
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2 yrs ago
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Right-Hand Cross-String with Tengyue Zhang aka TY
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Re: Borbála Seres: Quick Tips to Improve your Technique and Musical Expression!
@Borbala Seres Thank you for the reply. I appreciate it. Since your first lesson, a benefit I've noticed with this kind of musical thinking is that it keeps simpler pieces interesting.…
Steve Price
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2 yrs ago
Live Calendar
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Re: Borbála Seres: Quick Tips to Improve your Technique and Musical Expression!
@Borbala Seres @martin In both this and your lesson regarding Suite Castellana you mentioned developing characters and stories in pieces, but I was curious at what point in learning a piece do you…
Steve Price
Steve_Price
2 yrs ago
Live Calendar
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Re: Group 2
It sounds ironic, but the relaxation exercises were some of the toughest I've ever done...too much time in between notes, lol. The second video is the Giuliani etude played with no accents,…
Steve Price
Steve_Price
2 yrs ago
All About Arpeggios with Evan Taucher!
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Re: Group 2
Here are a couple of videos for the first week. It's interesting after working on accenting each finger individually, I notice a pretty significant in the evenness of my arpeggios overall.…
Steve Price
Steve_Price
2 yrs ago
All About Arpeggios with Evan Taucher!
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Re: Group 2
@Barney I'd say that most certainly is a mistake that crept into the score unless VL was feeling cute and stuck an oddball in the middle of those 5 1/2 measures of that one shape.…
Steve Price
Steve_Price
2 yrs ago
All About Arpeggios with Evan Taucher!
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Re: Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring
Very nice. The last time I worked on that piece I had forgotten who I was and tried Parkening's arrangement, lol. This is a really nice arrangement and very well played.…
Steve Price
Steve_Price
2 yrs ago
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Your Practice Diary
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Re: Sign-Up: All About Arpeggios with Evan Taucher!
Can you explain what participation is expected from attendees so we know if we should sign up or just view the lessons on the public site?
Steve Price
Steve_Price
2 yrs ago
General Information and Sign-Up!
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