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Re: Leo Brouwer's Estudios Sencillios!
@Martin Thanks for your thoughts on this. I'm working with the fingering in the Tonebase course by Rene Izquierdo. I'm concentrating on really developing a feel for the rhythm and dynamics,…
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Re: Bach’s Prelude in D minor, BWV 999
Looking beyond Bach at potential future Study Groups; we could consider some of the more approachable Villa-Lobos compositions. I have in mind: Part 1 of Suite Popular Brésilienne:…
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- 3 wk ago
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Re: Bach’s Prelude in D minor, BWV 999
@Javier Elizondo and @martin . I'd very much enjoy a Study Group on BWV 1007. Heard a great live performance recently which inspired me to take out the score again.…
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- 3 wk ago
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Re: Mastering Tricky Passages with Martin
@Hadrien Lovely voicing here. I must explore this whole piece. The motifs you have indicated have definite echoes of the second part of No. 112 in the Giuliani Studies for Right Hand, except inverted.…
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- 4 wk ago
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Re: Mastering Tricky Passages with Martin
Tomorrow’s Song, a composition for piano by Icelandic composer Ólafur Arnalds, is gaining popularity in the guitar community. A video from Guitar Salon International (GSI),…
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- 4 wk ago
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Re: Mastering Tricky Passages with Martin
@Andre Bernier Thank You. I just tried that. I'll try to return to it
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- 1 mth ago
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Re: Bach’s Prelude in D minor, BWV 999
@Derek Just tried that and if you can do the big leap to catch the Second String A then it positions you well for the second and third group of notes and makes an especially comfortable transition to…
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- 1 mth ago
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Re: Bach’s Prelude in D minor, BWV 999
@Nijwm Bwiswmuthiary Very nice, You have a good sound. I like your tempo and your ending. As you say, you could put in a ritardando. Good work!
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- 1 mth ago
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Re: Bach’s Prelude in D minor, BWV 999
Here’s a look at the infamous Big Stretch in Bar 15: F Major 7th. But let’s begin at Bar 13, a Little Stretch: 4 on B, Third String; 1 on C, Second String.…
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- 1 mth ago
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Re: Bach’s Prelude in D minor, BWV 999
@David My "no-name" score has Low E to start and F Natural at the end in Bar 23. The last two top voice notes are both D with an incidental sharp at the start of the Bar.
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- 1 mth ago
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Re: Bach’s Prelude in D minor, BWV 999
@Blaise Laflamme and @Jack Stewart. Both fingerings are viable. The score I follow is closer to the first version (with an indicated slur, which I daresay is not mandatory) .…
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Re: Bach’s Prelude in D minor, BWV 999
@Blaise Laflamme Nice clean edition.
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- 1 mth ago
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Re: Bach’s Prelude in D minor, BWV 999
@Martin I'll probably not be able to give this my full attention on Friday as I have workers coming in to do tree trimming and I need to keep an eye in what's happening.…
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- 1 mth ago
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Re: Bach’s Prelude in D minor, BWV 999
A favourite part of the Prelude starts at Bar 7. The quarter-note basses descend very pleasingly: D C B Flat to A in Bar 10. Then two bars with G Sharp. LH fingering can be tricky.…
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- 1 mth ago
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Re: Bach’s Prelude in D minor, BWV 999
Here's a video showing LH only for Bars 19 to 22. Short, so went through it twice.
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- 1 mth ago
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Re: Bach’s Prelude in D minor, BWV 999
The section starting at Bar 19 was tricky at first. This was because I was trying to hold on to rather difficult whole chords. Once I adopted a more 'fractional' approach, it became much easier.…
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- 1 mth ago
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Re: Bach’s Prelude in D minor, BWV 999
@Neil Macmillan Looking more closely at Bar 15: Instead of using 4th finger for the E C E C in the second beat, try to replace 4 with 1 for the second C.…
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- 1 mth ago
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Re: Bach’s Prelude in D minor, BWV 999
@Nijwm Bwiswmuthiary The F bass note only has to last until the sixteenth note A has been played. Then E C E C can be held down with 4th finger pressure as that is the only fretting that's required…
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- 1 mth ago
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Re: Bach’s Prelude in D minor, BWV 999
Hello from Nanaimo, B.C., Canada. An appealing feature of this prelude is the repeated bass motif: quarter note on first beat; two eighth notes on third beat.…
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- 1 mth ago
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Re: What's your favorite movie soundtrack?
Has to be Going Home, the theme from Local Hero, from 1983. Music was composed by Mark Knopfler. I work on a very nice classical guitar arrangement by Soren Madsen.…
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- 9 mths ago
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Re: Week 1: Improve your Recording Skills
@Martha Kreipke Exercise 1: good sound in all three cases. I'm drawn to the second, then the third setup: Both give an airier sound than the first setup. Exercise 2: I like the Front-Right option.…
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- 1 yr ago
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Re: Week 1: Improve your Recording Skills
@Immanuel Position A seems to give a nice full sound, especially in comparison to B which seems rather thin by comparison. C seems somewhere in between these two.…
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- 1 yr ago
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Re: Week 1: Improve your Recording Skills
@Anthony DiMambro Thanks for commenting. The possibilities for experimentation are limitless.
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- 1 yr ago
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Re: Week 1: Improve your Recording Skills
@Martin Thank you for commenting. Over this TWI, I've become fond of more distance from the mic: 1 m rather than 60 cm which was my standard up to now. My reverb settings are quite minimal and hardly…
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- 1 yr ago
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Re: Week 1: Improve your Recording Skills
@Francisco Portillo Very good sound with presence. You are making the most of your space. You seem to have a sloping ceiling which is probably good acoustically.
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- 1 yr ago
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