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Re: Sor Op 60 No 16
@Eric Phillips Beatiful Eric. It's coming along nicely
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- 3 yrs ago
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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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- 3 yrs ago
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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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- 3 yrs ago
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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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- 3 yrs ago
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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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- 3 yrs ago
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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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- 3 yrs ago
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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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- 3 yrs ago
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Re: tonebase Community Concert
Great idea!
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- 3 yrs ago
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Re: WEEK 3: Dóbry wétscher (Good Evening)!
@Elizabeth Uyehara Very good Elizabeth - you've made great progress
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- 3 yrs ago
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Re: WEEK 3: Dóbry wétscher (Good Evening)!
@david robinson Well played David
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- 3 yrs ago
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Re: WEEK 3: Dóbry wétscher (Good Evening)!
@Elizabeth Uyehara Well played Elizabeth
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- 3 yrs ago
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Re: WEEK 3: Dóbry wétscher (Good Evening)!
@Martin Very inspiring Martin. It will be too late for the challenge but I think I will have a look at this piece. (Another one on the long list!)
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- 3 yrs ago
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Re: WEEK 3: Dóbry wétscher (Good Evening)!
@Eric Phillips 😂
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- 3 yrs ago
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Re: WEEK 3: Dóbry wétscher (Good Evening)!
@Blaise Laflamme Thanks Blaise
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- 3 yrs ago
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Re: WEEK 3: Dóbry wétscher (Good Evening)!
@Eric Phillips Do you really want to be? You're very much like another wonderful guitarist I've heard - think his name was Eric Philips or something like that.
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- 3 yrs ago
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Re: WEEK 3: Dóbry wétscher (Good Evening)!
@Martin Thank you Martin - I was hoping that you meant that it's very kind of you - It was the 'scream' emoji that made me wonder if you meant something else.…
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- 3 yrs ago
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Re: WEEK 3: Dóbry wétscher (Good Evening)!
@Eric Phillips Eric - maybe not like John Williams but very impressive none the less! I think it's a great achievement to play the piece as well as that in the time you've had - especially with the…
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- 3 yrs ago
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Re: WEEK 3: Dóbry wétscher (Good Evening)!
@Chris Coghill Great work Chris
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- 3 yrs ago
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Re: WEEK 3: Dóbry wétscher (Good Evening)!
@Martin Thanks Martin - I was determined to record it all of the way through some of the attempts failed in the first couple of bars others got through the first tricky bit (the harmonics) and then…
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- 3 yrs ago
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Re: WEEK 3: Dóbry wétscher (Good Evening)!
@Brett Gilbert Thanks Brett. There are some tricky its when you start playing it faster
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- 3 yrs ago
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Re: WEEK 3: Dóbry wétscher (Good Evening)!
@joosje Thank you Joosje. I think it's one of those pieces where the individual phrases aren't too difficult - it's when you try to put them together that the problems start to appear.
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- 3 yrs ago
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Re: WEEK 3: Dóbry wétscher (Good Evening)!
@Eric Phillips thanks Eric
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- 3 yrs ago
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