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Re: If You Could Only Listen to One Composer for a Year, Who Would It Be?
For a year-long "single composer retreat", it would have to be somebody with a large repertoire to which I haven't listened at all. Buxtehude comes to mind.
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Re: What courses would you like to see next on tonebase Guitar?
A lesson on Passacaille by Tansman by Kassandra Siebel, who plays it beautifully, would be very nice.
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Re: How to get "Drop D" to stay in tune
@David Krupka Thank you for detailed response. Rob MacKillop's video is very interesting and convincing regarding using a regular lute but with single-coursed strings (I love Rob's videos ...…
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8 mths ago
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Re: How to get "Drop D" to stay in tune
@David Krupka Michael Thames's guitars are great, but he is on the other side of the Big Blue Pond for me! I realize that a 13-course lute would be very interesting to explore Weiss + Bach's music,…
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8 mths ago
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Re: How to get "Drop D" to stay in tune
@David Krupka I have listened a bit to Coste and Mertz (for ex., Drew Henderson and Alexandra Whittingham's renditions of these composers' music is really beautiful - then again,…
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8 mths ago
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Re: How to get "Drop D" to stay in tune
@Dave McLellan Marten Falk, who is a great classical guitarist, is a specialist of the Russian 7-string guitar's repertoire: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtCE70VDqks
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Re: How to get "Drop D" to stay in tune
@Dave McLellan&@David Krupka Thank you for your inputs. I hadn't properly considered all the ramifications of my suggestion to adopt a 7-string guitar as a solution for drop-D re-tuning issues:…
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Re: How to get "Drop D" to stay in tune
@Dave McLellan Hmmm, point well-made, that is a dimension I hadn't considered (I don't have a 7-string though I am considering to get one). But I do have "the two guitars solution" at home with one…
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Re: Can anyone suggest a good guitar string to use?
As mentioned above, the string choice really depends on your instrument and your playing. After all, we're dealing with psycho-acoustics here! Please also note that the following is not an…
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8 mths ago
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Re: How to get "Drop D" to stay in tune
Two, admittedly expensive, solutions of mine: . have two guitars, one with 6th-string in E, the other one with the 6th in D! . buy second hand or order a 7-string guitar with which you have a…
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8 mths ago
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Re: What Non-Classical Musicians Inspire You?
There are so many. Frank Zappa for sure. Many great rock/hard rock guitar-virtuosos some of whom studied the classical guitar at some point or another (for ex.…
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9 mths ago
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Re: Using office chair for practice?
I keep a CG in the office and play it when colleagues are at lunch or during after hours. When doing so, I use my office chair with arm rests: the latter don't bother me as I sit slightly forward on…
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10 mths ago
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Re: Biographies and other books about classical guitarists
@David Krupka Thank you for the suggestion: I ordered the Tyler & Sparks book.
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10 mths ago
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Biographies and other books about classical guitarists
Dear All, Any good books about classical guitarists, virtuosos, biographies, etc. that you've read, enjoyed, and would recommend? I had read and very much enjoyed "Practicing:…
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Re: Is there a Video of a Performance that you CANNOT stop watching?
There are many excellent interpretations of Tansman's Passacaille. But I keep going back to Kassandra Siebel's version: her tempo and highlights gives the piece the gravitas that it so deserves,…
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10 mths ago
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Re: If you could play any other instrument, what would it be and why?
@Lannie Ligthart My wife complains about my "loud" CG playing. So, maybe I should rent a cello for a month or two and "work" on my bowing to put things into perspective! Joking aside,…
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Re: If you could play any other instrument, what would it be and why?
@Dave McLellan Wow! ... those are completely different instruments. Even if you have the conservatory training and are a pro instrumentalist, it can't be that obvious to make these moves to…
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Re: If you could play any other instrument, what would it be and why?
@Lannie Ligthart Interesting: I didn't think learning to bow would be that difficult -- I mean, after all, even Jimmy Page managed to do it (ha, ha, ha)!…
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Re: If you could play any other instrument, what would it be and why?
Cello for me: I just love its haunting sound. And I could play it like this (I mean, I'ld wish I could play the cello like this):
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Re: Who are the guitarists that you think more people should know about?
I think Emre Sabuncuoglu deserves more attention given the tremendous work he is doing transcribing many classical repertoire pieces to the CG. Here is one example among many (including the complete…
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1 yr ago
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