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Re: Week 4: Serenade Showcase
@Dale Needles Great! I know it's not ideal, but will suffice until we spring for a good electronic page turner program and device.
- Barney
- 1 yr ago
- Villa-Lobos Extravaganza!
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Re: Week 3: Harmonious Journeys
@Jack Stewart Bravo Jack! You've established a very solid base upon which to build and refine. You also have an excellent musical feel for the piece, which I really really enjoyed.…
- Barney
- 1 yr ago
- Villa-Lobos Extravaganza!
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Re: Week 4: Serenade Showcase
@Dale Needles Sounds great so far Dale! Excellent execution and musicality, as usual. I look forward to hearing the entire finale when you are ready. I always have the same page turning problem with…
- Barney
- 1 yr ago
- Villa-Lobos Extravaganza!
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Re: Week 4: Serenade Showcase
@Jack Stewart @Dale Needles Thanks Jack! I agree about the suggestions provided by TB on scale speed. These approaches probably work, as long as we have the patience to follow the routines…
- Barney
- 1 yr ago
- Villa-Lobos Extravaganza!
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Re: Week 4: Serenade Showcase
@Dale Needles Thanks Dale! After I play this Etude, my left hand is sore. I'm using Rafael Aguirre's suggested alternative for playing the Trills section,…
- Barney
- 1 yr ago
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- Villa-Lobos Extravaganza!
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Re: Week 4: Serenade Showcase
This very beautiful Etude #7 is very challenging and tiring; and I have avoided it up until this challenge. The main difficulty for me at this point is executing the very fast scale passages cleanly…
- Barney
- 1 yr ago
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- Villa-Lobos Extravaganza!
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Re: Practice Habits to Accelerate Progress - with Chelsea Tanner
@Chelsea Tanner @martin Hi Chelsea, I missed the live session today, but just watched the recording. Excellent presentation!! Would you kindly post the list of habits you discussed? I appreciate it.…
- Barney
- 1 yr ago
- Live Calendar
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Re: Tee Shirts
@Dave McLellan @Michelle Roper @martin Tee Shirts, Sweatshirts.........I'm in!
- Barney
- 1 yr ago
- General Discussion
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Re: Week 4: From Cardoso to Carlevaro!
@Blaise Laflamme So sorry for the loss of your Dad, Blaise. Beautiful tune and playing ! Great to see you back with us.
- Barney
- 1 yr ago
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- Latin American Music Challenge
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Re: Week 4: From Cardoso to Carlevaro!
@Jack Stewart Wow! that was awesome, Jack! Great work!!
- Barney
- 1 yr ago
- Latin American Music Challenge
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Re: Week 4: From Cardoso to Carlevaro!
@Nijwm Bwiswmuthiary Yes, the good teachers have earned a higher fee per hour, but perhaps send a direct message to Martin. Maybe he could suggest someone and let him know your budget requirements.
- Barney
- 1 yr ago
- Latin American Music Challenge
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Re: Week 4: From Cardoso to Carlevaro!
@Dale Needles Excellent Dale! I enjoyed this very much!
- Barney
- 1 yr ago
- Latin American Music Challenge
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Re: Week 4: From Cardoso to Carlevaro!
@Nijwm Bwiswmuthiary I'm glad there is no injury. Playing Classical guitar is a complex process, which takes time to master. So please be patient with yourself. It is worth the effort.…
- Barney
- 1 yr ago
- Latin American Music Challenge
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Re: Week 4: From Cardoso to Carlevaro!
@Nijwm Bwiswmuthiary Very nice performance Nijwm! As for requested constructive comments, I believe you already noted that listening carefully to yourself while playing is extremely important to…
- Barney
- 1 yr ago
- Latin American Music Challenge
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Re: Week 4: From Cardoso to Carlevaro!
@Eric Phillips It's always great when kind musicians share their scores with us. This is nice little gem which you play beautifully! Your sight reading is excellent!…
- Barney
- 1 yr ago
- Latin American Music Challenge
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Re: Week 4: From Cardoso to Carlevaro!
@Nijwm Bwiswmuthiary Thanks Nijwm!
- Barney
- 1 yr ago
- Latin American Music Challenge
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Re: Week 4: From Cardoso to Carlevaro!
@Eric Phillips Beautiful Eric! It keeps getting better...
- Barney
- 1 yr ago
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- Latin American Music Challenge
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Re: Week 4: From Cardoso to Carlevaro!
@Dale Needles I'm not familiar with Fleury's work, but enjoyed your performance very much. Beautiful playing, Dale!! I also like when you share these compositions outside of Carlevaro's repertoire.…
- Barney
- 1 yr ago
- Latin American Music Challenge
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Re: Week 4: From Cardoso to Carlevaro!
@Eric Phillips Another nice choice for this challenge, and beautiful playing, Eric! I agree about the drop D tuning and I also get frustrated with the tuning stability when changing back and forth…
- Barney
- 1 yr ago
- 1
- Latin American Music Challenge
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Re: Week 4: From Cardoso to Carlevaro!
@Sam Greenblatt Good taste and choice Sam! ( I also picked this one for a challenge some time ago, haha). Ponce is one of my favorite composers for guitar. I enjoyed your performance very much.…
- Barney
- 1 yr ago
- Latin American Music Challenge
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Re: Week 4: From Cardoso to Carlevaro!
@Jack Stewart This tricky piece is coming along very well, Jack. I love your handling of dynamics and tone color. Pieces like this require time and patience.…
- Barney
- 1 yr ago
- Latin American Music Challenge
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Re: Week 4: From Cardoso to Carlevaro!
@Andre Bernier Thanks Andre!
- Barney
- 1 yr ago
- Latin American Music Challenge
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Re: Week 4: From Cardoso to Carlevaro!
@Jack Stewart Thanks Jack! The comment about Ponce's original melody was mentioned during the Tonebase lesson on the Canciones by Arturo.
- Barney
- 1 yr ago
- Latin American Music Challenge
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Re: Week 4: From Cardoso to Carlevaro!
@Lars Kjøller-Hansen Thanks for sharing this beautiful video with us! As we all know, singing the melody (and in this case with words) enables the player to understand proper phrasing, etc.…
- Barney
- 1 yr ago
- Latin American Music Challenge
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Re: Week 4: From Cardoso to Carlevaro!
@Blaise Laflamme Got it! I appreciate the Strings info. Thanks Blaise!
- Barney
- 1 yr ago
- 1
- Latin American Music Challenge
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