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Re: What are you working on?
@Dale Needles Yes, I did know Carlevaro's link to VL. I didn't know abut the TB forum. I have worked with the School of guitar books 3 and 4 for many years (like since 1978 or so).…
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Re: What are you working on?
@Dale Needles I second that. I've used that Carlevaro document too and keep going back to it. He should be considered the authority, since he gave the premiere.…
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Re: What are you working on?
@Andre Bernier Hey I am grateful for your submission. I have a couple of students who need new repertoire, and this little suite really does it for them. Thanks!
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@Marc Adler Her music is great. Western Vista is SOO wonderful to play and audiences love it. find David Russell on Youtube playing it. Good luck with the big works! change of subject:…
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Re: What are you working on?
@Eric Phillips nice one!
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Re: What are you working on?
There's another discussion along this line: "What's on your stand?" but this is good too. Music by living women: Four Miniatures by Clarice Assad, Western Vista by Olga Amelina-Vera are the big ones ,…
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Re: What's on Your Stand?
@Mark Thirlwell Good Luck! do great!
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1 mth ago
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Re: Is there a book you’ve read that influenced the way you play or perform?
@Dave McLellan OOPS! there's the very new one about Elon Musk. This one, like the Jobs book, was characterized by Isaacson hanging with the subject for significant amounts of time.…
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5 mths ago
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Re: Is there a book you’ve read that influenced the way you play or perform?
@Nijwm Bwiswmuthiary YES! Da Vinci is the recent-er one. yeah that's great. Isaacson is awesome.
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Re: Is there a book you’ve read that influenced the way you play or perform?
@Nijwm Bwiswmuthiary If you are looking for biography: The Great Pianists/Composers/Conductors books by Harold Schoenberg are fantastic. Also Artur Rubinstein's autobiography is excellent.…
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Re: Is there a book you’ve read that influenced the way you play or perform?
This is not a book, but it might be of interest to all who have responded, since the general trend is about improvement. the podcast Bulletproof Musician is a wonderful podcast focused on helping…
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Re: Is there a book you’ve read that influenced the way you play or perform?
@Stephen Holland thanks. I will check out Golf and yours.
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Re: Is there a book you’ve read that influenced the way you play or perform?
The Inner Game of Tennis - the original Inner Game book by Timothy Gallwey. I read it at age 23 or so, and it changed the way I think about learning, skills, being.
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Re: anyone knows how to transfer forscore to a new ipad?
@don BTW there is an excellent suppport group for Forscore on Facebook. Forscore Users Group has many expert users with lots of answers. it's saved me several times.
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6 mths ago
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Re: anyone knows how to transfer forscore to a new ipad?
Jacques had the answer AFAIK. it should just transfer over.
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Re: What is the longest you've ever gone without your guitar?
In 1989, after almost ten years of duo playing, I gave my last concert with duo partner Neil Anderson at Merkin Hall in NY. We played a full program of American duo guitar music with a grant from the…
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Re: What is the longest you've ever gone without your guitar?
@Dale Needles seems like that will work out. you can do plenty of mental study too. good luck with all of that.
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Re: Chord changes - most efficient way to practice them?
Martin Zimny had an interesting lesson on something that wasn't about chord changes, but he does discuss some approaches to efficient learning of chord shapes.…
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7 mths ago
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Re: any tonebase lesson or youtube on different RH free strokes
@don sure!
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7 mths ago
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Re: any tonebase lesson or youtube on different RH free strokes
Look through the Tom Viloteau lessons. He's got some good advice, but also watch Vladimir Gorbach's fast scales lesson. he doesn't talk about right side of nail,…
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7 mths ago
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Re: Tee Shirts
Definitely! I'd spring for a Tonebase T! Martin, Mircea, are you hearing this? :-)
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7 mths ago
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Re: What's on Your Stand?
@Jos Durkstra oh, excellent! she's a real honey!
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7 mths ago
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@Jos Durkstra Wow, that's a big project! Hey do you know his granddaughter Diana? I've been communicating with her for a few years when I play the Op. 99 concerto.…
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7 mths ago
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Re: Embarrassing Moments.
I have two stories, one strictly about playing, and the other just a silly stage goof. I played in a duo for ten year with Neil Anderson, an important teacher and organizer in the Boston area.…
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Re: What's on Your Stand?
finished a busy season in June. went right to new music, working on cello/guitar duos: Arpeggione, de Falla 7 Spanish songs, Boccherini G.4 Sonata, Piazzolla History of the Tango.…
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