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Re: Week 6: Triumph & Reflections @Ron Two excellent performances with everything well controlled. The recording process will always be accompanied by some tension. It just gets less as you go along.…
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Re: Week 6: Triumph & Reflections @Blaise Laflamme A very elegant and rich rendition. Good camera work too!
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Re: Week 6: Triumph & Reflections @Barney Thank you for the comment Barney. Bringing out the top line is a major objective here. Glad you approve.
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Re: Week 6: Triumph & Reflections @Jack Stewart Thank you for your comment. Smoothness and legato is the great challenge on the guitar. We try to be legato on an instrument that is inherently rather non-legato.
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Re: Week 6: Triumph & Reflections @Andre Bernier Thank you for your comment. Maybe I caught a lull between flights. I live nowhere near an airport but the skies locally seemed very busy when I was ready to record.
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Re: Week 6: Triumph & Reflections @joosje Thank you. Your recordings encourage me to delve much more into the whole of Opus 60.
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Re: Week 5: Mastery in the Making @joosje Both very nice performances, You bring out very appealing tone colours.
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Re: Week 5: Mastery in the Making @joosje This one ripples along very nicely with energetic leaping all over the place and you convey that well. Excellent sound.
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Re: Week 6: Triumph & Reflections @Andre Bernier Good rendition with nice control without. Nice sound too!
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Re: Week 6: Triumph & Reflections @Barney Very pleasing rendition. Nice rippling passages with good legato and solid support from the bass line. Great ending!
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Re: Week 6: Triumph & Reflections Opus 60, No. 3, without repeats. This is my submission for the watch party on 15.04.
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Re: Group 1 @Barney Enjoyed both your interpretations.
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Re: Group 1 @Jeremy Heiss Nice version.
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Re: Group 1 @Borbála Seres Thank you so much. I actually thought this was only the first section of the prelude. "Surely there must be another section," I thought. But if that's the whole thing, I'll work on it.
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Re: Group 2 @GALAIS Olivier Very nice. I'll try it at your tempo once it falls under my fingers better.
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Re: Group 1 This video is brought to you by The Easter Bunny and myself. I'd really need more time to get this flowing better under my fingers. But this is my best version today.…
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Re: Group 1 @Borbála Seres Thank you for your commentary. Wonderful suggestions to work on.
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Re: Group 1 @Borbála Seres Thank you again. The metronome can indeed distract and can also force one into a "mechanical" kind of execution. Will continue to work on legato;…
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Re: Group 1 @Rick Lord Nicely executed in all cases.
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Re: Group 1 https://youtu.be/jRyAKWNt4Bc Exercise 6: I know this one as Estudio 6 from the Segovia 20 Studies collection. Playing slowly to focus on interpretation.
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Re: Group 1 https://youtu.be/p7Xliaui5ho Exercise 3: Playing top voice only with an exaggerated slowness to concentrate on legato and rubato. Of course it's fuller music with the bass.
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Re: Group 1 @Borbála Seres Thank you for your helpful commentary. As you suggested, I took another look at Exercise 2; bass line only, and just lines 2 and 3. Metronome is at 63 (each eighth note). https://youtu.…
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Re: Group 1 @Martha Kreipke Nice work on these three. Some of the fingering is intricate.
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Re: Group 1 https://youtu.be/jxRrSpPeqLQ Exercise 2: Legato using p. A little rough around the edges still. I'll commit to learning all of Op 60, No 6. This extract has aroused my interest in the piece,…
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Re: Group 1 https://youtu.be/Wk264daEHZ0 Exercise 1: Rubato. Will try to differentiate more between my fastest accelerando and slowest ritardando. Also need to resist the urge to always drive an accelerando to a…
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