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Re: Week 1: "Villa-Lobos Vibe" Man, I feel so lucky to hear all of you play. What a crew!
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Re: Week 1: "Villa-Lobos Vibe" @Andre Bernier Presently, I have Savarez New Cristal Corum standard tension strings on there. But, I actually like the non-Cristal Savarez ones better. I forget what they're called,…
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- 1 yr ago
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Re: Week 1: "Villa-Lobos Vibe" Still some obvious flubs, but I think playing it with greater frequency for this challenge has been helping me "feel" how it all hangs together better than before (even if I still can't execute that…
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Re: Week 1: "Villa-Lobos Vibe" @Ron Yes, accompanied by one of my roosters, Caramel. hahahah
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- 1 yr ago
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Re: Week 1: "Villa-Lobos Vibe" @joosje Thank you for sharing these. What a pretty tune in your hands. I look forward to more!
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- 1 yr ago
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Re: Week 1: "Villa-Lobos Vibe" This morning's rendition of "Pobre Cega." I tried to bring out the melody more. I think I just ended up playing that louder (and not necessarily more voice-like).…
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Re: Week 1: "Villa-Lobos Vibe" @Andre Bernier We're happy that you're joining us in this challenge and look forward to listening to you play!
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- 1 yr ago
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Re: Week 1: "Villa-Lobos Vibe" @Ron Thank you for finding that for me!
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- 1 yr ago
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Re: Week 1: "Villa-Lobos Vibe" @Spare Machine Guitar gang, please bring on the feedback, ideas, and suggestions!
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- 1 yr ago
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Re: Week 1: "Villa-Lobos Vibe" @Eric Phillips I'm not familiar to this piece, but those barre chords are very rock 'n' roll. I dig it! Even that C chord shape moving down the fretboard is a familiar thing...…
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Re: Week 1: "Villa-Lobos Vibe" @Spare Machine
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Re: Week 1: "Villa-Lobos Vibe" @Pavel As far as I can tell the Marcos playa normal 6-strong classical. I assume the label’s art director just thought that guitar on the cover looked cool…
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- 1 yr ago
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Re: Week 1: "Villa-Lobos Vibe" @Eric Phillips Awesome! Thank you! This going to be fun!
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- 1 yr ago
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Re: Week 1: "Villa-Lobos Vibe" Yay! This "Pobre Cega" piece is one of the main reasons I started to learn to play classical guitar. It popped up on my Spotify as I was exploring Brazilian jazz music.…
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- 1 yr ago
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Re: Week 4: Resurrected Rhythms: Celebrating Revived Pieces! @Jack Stewart No, I definitely meant rad as in: Duuuuuude that was so rad!
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- 1 yr ago
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Re: Week 4: Resurrected Rhythms: Celebrating Revived Pieces! @Jack Stewart That piece is rad!
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- 1 yr ago
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Re: Week 4: Resurrected Rhythms: Celebrating Revived Pieces! Hi, everyone! Thank you for sharing your tunes. Do we pick a different piece for this week?
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- 1 yr ago
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Re: Week 1: Our Unfinished Pieces! Unfinished Biz friends, I'm out of town for the next 10 days on vacation. It wasn't practical to bring my guitar, but supposedly the hotel I'm staying most of my stay at has a classical guitar in the…
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- 1 yr ago
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Re: Week 1: Our Unfinished Pieces! @Eric Phillips It's coming along nicely. (And, you stuck the landing on this take!) How is if feeling when you play it?
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- 1 yr ago
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Re: Week 1: Our Unfinished Pieces! @Eric Phillips Thank you!
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- 1 yr ago
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Re: Week 1: Our Unfinished Pieces! I think I figured out the embedding. @Eric Phillips , let me know if this works for you. And, thank you again for the time and energy you, and this group members, spend helping me develop!
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- 1 yr ago
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Re: Week 1: Our Unfinished Pieces! @Eric Phillips it’s such a treat to get to hear and watch you play! Thank you for sharing!
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- 1 yr ago
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Re: Week 1: Our Unfinished Pieces! Sometimes the only practice I get in is while take my kid and his friends to the park. This is from yesterday, more-or-less the only playing I’ve gotten in recently. https://fb.…
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- 1 yr ago
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Re: Week 1: Our Unfinished Pieces! @Eric Phillips This is amazing feedback. Thank you SO MUCH for taking the time to analyze my playing and to offer your advice. I really appreciate it!
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- 1 yr ago
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Re: Week 1: Our Unfinished Pieces! https://vimeo.com/843661546?share=copy I share this one bc E Sowicz was mentioned in the thread and, while I play this piece a lot, it still is "unfinished" for me (and maybe always will be).…
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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.