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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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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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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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Re: any tonebase lesson or youtube on different RH free strokes @don sure!
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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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Re: Tee Shirts Definitely! I'd spring for a Tonebase T! Martin, Mircea, are you hearing this? :-)
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Re: What's on Your Stand? @Jos Durkstra oh, excellent! she's a real honey!
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Re: What's on Your Stand? @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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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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Re: Piano transcriptions for guitar duet Hi. I'll take a listen. is this on Spotify? All the arranging I did was way back in the 80's and one of my most fun projects was the Simon and Garfunkel hit 'Mrs. Robinson'.…
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Re: Piano transcriptions for guitar duet I've done a bunch of keyboard arrangements for guitar duo, examples: Bach Italian Concerto and Fantasia and Fugue, Bartok Suite, Villa-Lobos works, Handel Harmonious Blacksmith entire suite,…
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Re: What Nail Products Do You Use? @Steve Garfinkle I hear you. if you listen to Brandon's tremelo, it's pretty darn good for no nail sound. my flaky real nails are why I've used fakes for 16 years now.…
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Re: What Nail Products Do You Use? @Debbie I watched Brandon Acker's no nails in 10 days video recently. very interesting, and to be honest I'm a little envious. I would love to liberate my life from nail care and break paranoia.…
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Re: What Nail Products Do You Use? I have used nails from GPN (Guitarplayernails.com) since 2008. I have used a variety of nail types and glues, and used to get GPN glue, but regular Krazy glue is way cheaper and holds longer.…
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Re: What is on your musical bucket list? @Steve Price true enough, that Gigue is a bear. so just play a few movements. you don't need no stinkin' Gigue :-). I haven't played serious Bach in a really long time (not tellin' how long!).…
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Re: What is on your musical bucket list? - Bach 6th cello suite and C major violin sonata - Britten Nocturnal - premier more new works (did 3 this season) - do more work with mixed chorus - do more chamber music sorry I guess this isn't all…
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