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Re: Villa Lobos Prelude No 5 @Eric Phillips That's sounding good Eric. I keep pulling this piece out and I find this section the most challenging.
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Re: Derek Alba by Hans Haug @Martin @Eric Phillips Thank you both for your comments. I first heard this piece many years ago on a recording by the English guitarist John Mills whoI believe used to teach at the Royal College of…
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Re: Derek's Lob der Thranen First recording - I think I've done it better but you can see where I'm at with the piece. Hopefully i will get the hang of the 'impossible bits' and maybe play this at the next concert.…
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Re: Derek Alba by Hans Haug First update: I've recorded myself - I forgot the dynamics at the start in the excitement of doing the recording but as the purpose was to make a first draft to check the timing I'm not too bothered.…
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Re: Live Lesson: Ocho Valses Poeticos by Enrique Granados I was really looking forward to this but unfortunately my family have decided I have to be elsewhere. The UK have an annual 'bonfire night' on November 5th with lots of firework displays to…
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Re: Bach BWV 1007 Prelude @Brett Gilbert I went to see Kevin last Saturday. A wonderful guitarist. He played Bach cello suite no 6 to open the concert. Looking forward to hearing you play this
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Re: Blaise's Practice Diary - Sor's Gran Solo Op. 14 This is a mega piece Blaise. After hearing your Koshkin study I'm sure you'll do it well
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Re: Derek's Lob der Thranen @Eric Phillips Hi Eric. Yes - I found it like that the first time I tried it so I put it away onto my pile of pieces for the future (we'll have to compare piles sometime) but I was determined to do…
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Derek Alba by Hans Haug
I have played this piece on and off for a long time - it's one of my favourites. I'd like to play it for the concert. The main problem is that I have played it for so long that I am now playing my…
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Derek Tango final by Piazzolla arranged Gary Ryan
This is another piece I started some time ago and put to one side. The piece is in 3 sections an ABA format but my main problem is that the closing A section is quite a bit different to the first A…
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Derek's Lob der Thranen
I started learning this piece about a year ago but keep putting away to concentrate on other things such as the challenges and some other pieces I am also trying to learn.…
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Re: Brooke's Tango en Skai This is a great (and difficult) piece. It's on my to do list so looking forward to see how you progress
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Re: Eli's Portrait - Sergio Assad This sounds good.
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Re: Calin's practice: Prelude in C minor, BWV 999 Looking forward to your recording Calin
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Re: Interactive Practice Room: How I Start my Practice Everyday! @Peter well done Peter. I shall make great use of this
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Re: Sor Op 60 No 16 @Eric Phillips Beatiful Eric. It's coming along nicely
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Re: Derek's Diary @Nora Torres-Nagel Thank you Nora. The Piazzola piece is from a set of 'easy' arrangements by Gary Ryan who I think teaches (or used to) at the Royal College of Music in London so not as hard as…
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Re: Derek's Diary @Eric Phillips Hi Eric I'm sure you make more efficient use of your time after I've seen your efforts in the community challenges.
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Derek's Diary
I get up very early so that I can have (hopefully) a couple of hours practice before breakfast without being interrupted. I try to do half an hour or usually more of warm ups,…
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Re: Recuerdos de la Alhambra - Improving my Tremolo! @Martin Martin I've been working on my tremolo for a while now after watching Stephanie Jones' video on Tonebase. It's improved a lot but if I could get it to your current standard within a couple…
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Re: Lute Advice @Eric Phillips sounds great Eric. Looking forward to hearing some Dowland played on it
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Re: Lute Advice You lucky person Eric that's fantastic. I've often toyed with the idea of buying one but I struggle to try to play all of the music I try to/want to play on the guitar.…
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Re: WEEK 3: Dóbry wétscher (Good Evening)! @Blaise Laflamme Hi Blaise - been a busy week since the watch party but I just wanted to say how much I enjoyed your playing in this piece. You did a great job - I'm very impressed!
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Re: Introduction to Barre @Martin Martin - thank you very much for replying to me it is wonderful. I first played this piece many years ago and come back to it every couple of years or so and just revisited it last week.…
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Re: Introduction to Barre @Martin @Bill Young Hi Martin and Bill (I think you mentioned it) regarding the 'jazz barre' with the 1st and 3rd fingers. I think there is something similar in the attached minuet and trio by…
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