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Re: BWV 999 - Your Gateway to Bach
I would have been really interested in this but unfortunately I'll be travelling at that time. Martin - you need to discuss with me before you arrange these things :-).…
- Derek
- 7 days ago
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Re: Week 4
@Barney That's lovely Barney - one of my favourite Granados pieces. I have an arrangement which I assume is Japanese as it's from a series 'Zen on the Classical Guitar' (or something like that.…
- Derek
- 1 mth ago
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Re: Week 4
@Sam Greenblatt Very enjoyable Sam. I don't think any of these pieces are easy. I have some arragements by Carlos Barbosa-Lima but I could never get to grips with them.
- Derek
- 1 mth ago
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Re: Week 4
@joosje That's a great piece Joosje. It looks pretty hard but it sounds like it's coming along nicely and will be a great piece after you've got it all under your fingers. Well done
- Derek
- 1 mth ago
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Re: Week 4
@Dale Needles That's nice Dale, I've not heard that piece before. As Joosje says - a very clean performance.
- Derek
- 1 mth ago
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Re: Week 4
@Barney Thanks Barney
- Derek
- 1 mth ago
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Re: Week 4
@Sam Greenblatt That sounds great Sam!
- Derek
- 1 mth ago
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Re: Week 4
I was hoping (as usual) to record a video but life seems too hectic to get anything complete these days so instead of trying to record something and trying to get the 'perfect take' I've attached a…
- Derek
- 1 mth ago
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Re: Left Hand Ground Zero - Perfecting the Basics
This sounds very interesting but it's my wife's birthday. I'll definitely watch the recording
- Derek
- 1 mth ago
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Re: Week 3
@Reinhard That sounds pretty (extremely!) difficult Reinhard but you seem to be on the way. Like Jack I'd like to see your progress on this.
- Derek
- 2 mths ago
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Re: Week 3
@Eric Phillips That's great Eric. I like the little flourish in the repeat of the 3rd section. I shall try that myself! It must be about 50 years since I saw the Godfather so I can't comment on that :…
- Derek
- 2 mths ago
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Re: Week 3
@Steve Price I enjoyed both pieces Steve. I don't feel qualified to comment as you seem to be doing a great job. I agree with Jack about Aniello Desiderio's interpretation.
- Derek
- 2 mths ago
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Re: 🎶 Latin American Music Challenge | Week 1
@Blaise Laflamme Hi Blaise. I'm trying to improve Julia Florida at the moment so hopfully I'll record that. I keep trying to get the Waltz op 8 no 4 to a reasonable level so I'll start practising the…
- Derek
- 4 mths ago
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Re: 🎶 Latin American Music Challenge | Week 1
I'm excited by this! I'm working on a few South American pieces at the moment - Milonga by Jose Cardoso, some Villa Lobos and some Barrios. Hopefully I will get chance to record some for this…
- Derek
- 4 mths ago
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Re: Deep Dive Into Villa-Lobos Prelude No.1!
We collect our granddaughter from school just before this (UK time). I'm hoping she will be as interested as I will be :-)
- Derek
- 4 mths ago
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Re: Villa-Lobos Prelude No.1!
Sorry that I missed the zoom call. I was on my way to Lanzarote but I will watch the recording, sounds interesting from the summary. I was hoping to record it before I came but it was a hectic week.…
- Derek
- 4 mths ago
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Re: Villa-Lobos Prelude No.1!
@Barney that was/is really nice Barney. Well played.
- Derek
- 4 mths ago
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Re: Villa-Lobos Prelude No.1!
I'm in. I used to play this but not for a while but I saw Alexandra Whittingham play all 5 preludes a couple of weeks ago so I started relearning it last week - hoping to play it on Saturday for a…
- Derek
- 5 mths ago
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Re: Leo Brouwer's Estudios Sencillios!
I've joined. Does this include the new ones or just the original 20 :-)
- Derek
- 6 mths ago
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Re: Bach’s Prelude in D minor, BWV 999
I also think it's a great idea - maybe the BWV996 Allemande after the Bouree?
- Derek
- 6 mths ago
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Re: Bach’s Prelude in D minor, BWV 999
@Bill Young Good suggestion Bill. The second section in particular should be very interesting.
- Derek
- 6 mths ago
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Re: Bach’s Prelude in D minor, BWV 999
@Neil I've been on holiday this week but before I left I came up with some off the wall fingering for bar 15. F on the 6th string C on the 2nd string, open E then a jump to A on the 2nd string 10th…
- Derek
- 7 mths ago
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Re: Bach’s Prelude in D minor, BWV 999
@Nijwm Bwiswmuthiary Hi Nijwm. That sounds really nice after only a couple of weeks. Well done. I'd like to hear it again in a few weeks. Hopefully we can continue to post in this group after this…
- Derek
- 7 mths ago
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Re: Bach’s Prelude in D minor, BWV 999
. Hi Nijwm. I'm currently using a different fingering in that I play the F at the higher octave on the 5th string with my little finger (4) and use a 1st finger barre on the top 3 strings.…
- Derek
- 7 mths ago
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Re: The Dance Challenge Week Four
@Eric Phillips You never cease to amaze me Eric with how much music you can learn in such a short time and also play it so beautifully. Do you have 48 hour days over there :-)?
- Derek
- 7 mths ago
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