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Re: Week 3: Discovering Hidden Gems I missed submitting a video in Week 2. Hopping back on the Challenge with this submission.
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Re: Week 3: Discovering Hidden Gems @Eric Phillips I like seeing the 2 side-by-side. Your achievement on the harmonics section inspires me to maybe go back and give El Testament d’Amelia another whack.…
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Re: Week 2: Delving into Diverse Styles @Derek cool piece thank you for sharing!
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Re: Week 2: Delving into Diverse Styles @martin I imagine that Martin’s presence on this thread has the same feeling for others as it does for me: THE ToneBase rockstar is here with us, learning, vulnerably, alongside us. How wonderful.…
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Re: Week 2: Delving into Diverse Styles @Eric Phillips it’s such a treat to hear you play. Thank you!
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Re: Week 2: Delving into Diverse Styles @Steve Price Cooool. I'm going to look that record up!
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- 5 mths ago
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Re: Week 1: Exploring New Territories In case you missed it, the most current comments, etc are on the Week 2 thread of this Challenge, which you can find here: https://guitar-community.tonebase.…
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- 5 mths ago
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Re: Week 2: Delving into Diverse Styles @Eric Phillips So helpful! Thank you! I was thinking about the lagoto bit. I think that some of that, obviously is the literal handling melody note, but some of it is imprecision in the left hand…
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Re: Week 2: Delving into Diverse Styles @Eric Phillips 5-noter, upper right.
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Re: Week 2: Delving into Diverse Styles @Eric Phillips a five-note chord, yes. Thank you for the tips and I look forward to working on the legato during our challenge. I’ll post a picture of the score sometime soon! Thank you!
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Re: Week 2: Delving into Diverse Styles Includes grossly glaring mistakes, but still has its moments and some potential, I think. "Lullaby" - Frantz Casseus (Haiti)
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Re: Week 1: Exploring New Territories @Eric Phillips wow! It’s always a treat to hear you play. I love the different tones you employed with your right hand placements!
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Re: Week 1: Exploring New Territories @Steve Price cooool!
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Re: Week 1: Exploring New Territories @Vilio Celli thank you for sharing!
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Re: Week 1: Exploring New Territories I learned “Lullaby” by Haitian guitarist Frantz Cassius as one of the my first tunes in the classical guitar style. I’d like to revisit it for this challenge! https://youtu.…
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- 6 mths ago
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Re: Week 1: Exploring New Territories @Eric Phillips Cool. I look forward to this!
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- 6 mths ago
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Re: Week 2: Deep Dive into Dynamics! Fingering by Sabrina V: https://app.tonebase.co/guitar/courses/player/sabrina-vlaskalic-teaches-carcassi-study?moduleSlug=sabrina-vlaskalic-teaches-carcassi-study-no-7-op-60 I skipped the repeat of…
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- 8 mths ago
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Re: Week 1: Jumpstart Your Journey! @Alan Hoff I'm working #7 too. I'm trying out Sabrina Vlaskalic's fingering as discussed on tonebase:https://app.tonebase.co/guitar/courses/player/sabrina-vlaskalic-teaches-carcassi-study?…
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- 8 mths ago
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Re: Week 4: "Samba Strings Showcase" I've not had a chance to upload lately, and my practicing of the piece took a backseat once the school year started up (I'm an educator) and I got a little cut on my left hand index finger that…
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Re: Week 4: "Samba Strings Showcase" @don I love that bass waling part that starts at 0:40. I think our brains are in a different mode when we perform or record, and it makes our fingers misbehave. Sounds great though.…
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- 1 yr ago
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Re: Week 2: "Brazilian Rhythms Rendezvous" @joosje What a pretty tune. It had a familiarity to me (like so many strong tunes do--even when you hear the for the first time), but I don't know it. Thank you for sharing it!
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- 1 yr ago
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Re: Week 1: "Villa-Lobos Vibe" Todos, I don't have a recording for you all today, but this group and the focus it nudged me towards to work on "Pobre Cega," inspired me to play it at an open mic at a nearby bar.…
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Re: Week 1: "Villa-Lobos Vibe" @joosje Hell, yeah! I loved hearing you play all the parts together. Thank you for sharing that and for enduring the stress of doing all the parts together!…
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- 1 yr ago
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Re: Week 1: "Villa-Lobos Vibe" @Steve Pederson Cordoba C4-CE African Mahogany Cutaway Classical Acoustic-Electric Edgeburst
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Re: Week 1: "Villa-Lobos Vibe" If any of you know of Chicago-area organizations that are like in-person version of this, please hip me to those groups! Thank you!
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- 1 yr ago
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I learned how to work the machine that is a guitar mostly through the American Primitive style. I'm hoping to improve my playing of the classical guitar.