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Re: Week 4: Harmonic Heights
@Dale Needles Thanks very much Dale!! I appreciate your kind words and also all your help with Carlevaro technique.
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Re: Week 4: Harmonic Heights
@Steve Pederson Thanks Steve!! Yeah, this is difficult in certain places ( at least it is for me...). My left hand still hurts from it! Those quick bar chord shifts are no fun for the hand...…
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Re: Week 4: Harmonic Heights
@joosje Thank you Joosje!! I'm so happy you enjoyed it ( your opinion matters a lot to me), as that's what I'm shooting for. Like most of the challenges, the time period is too short,…
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Re: Week 4: Harmonic Heights
@David Krupka Thanks David!! Funny, but I only do YouTube "unlisted" for Tonebase only.
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Re: Week 4: Harmonic Heights
@Eric Phillips Thank you so much Eric for your kind comments. I appreciate it!!
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Re: Week 4: Harmonic Heights
@Jack Stewart Thanks Jack for your very kind words!! Yes, the dinosaur plays but it was too hot to wear the purple suit for this one.
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Re: Week 4: Harmonic Heights
I picked Sevilla for this challenge. For me, it is the most challenging piece in the Suite Espanola, OP.47. My interpretation is a combination of versions by Llobet, M. Barrueco, D. Russell, A.…
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Re: Carlevaro - Technique
@Blaise Laflamme @Dale Needles @Moyses Lopes Thanks all of you for your clarification of purpose and suggestions for practice to achieve the desired result. Much appreciated!!
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Re: Carlevaro - Technique
@Dale Needles @Moyses Lopes @Blaise Laflamme Thanks Dale for this explanation and for reaching out to Alfredo for confirmation! This is very helpful as I try to work through this one.…
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Re: Spanish Music Mini Challenge
@Steve Price Thanks Steve! I attended that workshop with Seres, but forgot she used Suite Castellana as her example. I Appreciate the reminder!
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Re: Spanish Music Mini Challenge
@Steve Price This is such a great piece, and you are on are way with the 3rd movement. Where did you find Borbala's lesson on this piece?
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Re: Spanish Music Mini Challenge
@Eric Phillips Wow! This sounds great Eric! Love it. Nice flow, tone, and melody legato. Even a few nice thumb strums/rasgueados and some Apoyando. I really enjoyed it. thanks!!
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Spanish Music Mini Challenge
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Re: Carlevaro - Technique
@Moyses Lopes @Dale Needles @Blaise Laflamme Thanks very much Moyses!! It is very helpful and perfect at this speed to see gestures and rhythm. It looks like lowest bass notes are usually held down (…
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Re: Week 3: Fingers on Fire
@Dale Needles I love this piece and usually cry when I hear it. I believe I originally heard Vladimir Horowitz play it, and then Segovia. When I played this a while back (Segovia's version),…
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Re: Week 3: Fingers on Fire
@Moyses Lopes Wow - nice work with transcription! Pretty tune, which you nicely adapted to guitar and played beautifully. Thanks for sharing it with us!
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Re: Week 3: Fingers on Fire
@joosje Yes Joosje! The Old Castle--what a great piece as part of "Pictures". It's been a long time, but I used to play the Segovia version. I agree the challenge is overall shaping of the piece,…
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1 yr ago
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Re: Carlevaro - Technique
@Dale Needles Thanks Dale! I think for now I will use my traditional right hand approach. I would rather focus more on the left hand gestures at this point.…
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1 yr ago
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Re: Carlevaro - Technique
@Dale Needles Got it! Thanks Dale! I forgot to ask about right hand fingering. I usually use Rest Strokes (apoyando) i-m when playing scales. What about that?
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Re: Carlevaro - Technique
@Dale Needles Hi Dale, When I work on Scales, is it okay to use The "Segovia Scales" fingering, which has plenty of shifts? ( I'm already familiar with the standard patterns for the different keys)…
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Re: A Journey into the world of Spanish Music (with Magdalena Baczewska)
Please talk about Alicia De Larrocha, the legendary Spanish pianist, and her wonderful interpretations and performance of Spanish Classical music. She has influenced performers (of several…
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1 yr ago
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Re: A Journey into the world of Spanish Music (with Magdalena Baczewska)
If possible, speak about background etc for the following major works, which have been originally composed for piano and/or orchestra and some of the pieces transcribed for guitar as well: Albeniz:…
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1 yr ago
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Re: Week 2: Strings Attached
@Calin Lupa I'm still evaluating the new suction cups. They seem better than the originals. However, it looks like one of them (the lowest one on the right side) seems to lose suction sooner.…
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Re: Who are your Guitar Heroes?
Early days: Segovia ("The Great Master"), Bream, Williams, Parkening, Rey de la Torre; Sabicas; The Romeros. Hendrix, Clapton, Jeff Beck, Page (Rock guitar main influences) Nowadays: Russell, Dylla,…
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Discussion of the Week!
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Re: Week 2: Strings Attached
@Calin Lupa I had recently come upon this performance by Kevin Loh, which I like. I contacted both he and his teacher (Richard Wright), who arranged it for solo guitar.…
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Re: READ and FAQ!
@martin Martin has advised that the revised Challenge days ending is May 10th, and Watch party is on May 10th.
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