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Re: Release Review: Łukasz Kuropaczewski's Practice Principles All in all, a well done production, Practice Principles. I really enjoyed how clear Lukacz was in explaining his approach. He made his approach readily understandable and easy to implement.…
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Re: Level 1 - List Of Pieces (+ Discussion Space) @Darryl Brooks I believe that what you want is the screen that shows each of the levels. You can get there from the home page and click on "Levels" which appears in a sidebar on the left side of your…
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Re: Practice diary 2024 - Andre Bernier @Andre Bernier Good to read your update and see what you have been doing. I will be interested to hear how you get on with Brouwer Estudios Sencillos No. 1.…
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Re: LAST WEEK: Over the Horizon! @Andre Bernier Well done Andre. The piece is sounding great. Sounds like the Alaska picks are working well for you. Nice to see the progress you are making.
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- Around the World in 80 Strings Challenge
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Re: Practice diary 2024 - Andre Bernier @Andre Bernier Sounding good Andre. Of all of the pieces I have played to date, this one still ranks as one of my favourites. It looks like the Alaska picks are working well for you. Well done.…
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Re: Experience with Alaska Picks @Andre Bernier Thank you for all of your postings on this subject. I have found it interesting following your experimentation with the Alaska picks. You mention that you "feel" that you can use them…
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Re: Practice Diary 2023 - Jim King @Andre Bernier Thank you Andre.
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Re: Practice Diary 2023 - Jim King Julio Sagreras (1879-1942) was a guitarist from Argentina. He was best known for his guitar instruction series. Here are 2 of the pieces from that series, Lección 70 and Lección 75,…
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Re: Practice Diary 2023 - Jim King @Andre Bernier Thank you for the further information and clarifications Andre. In your response you discuss about not bringing pieces that we learn in a lesson up to tempo before we move onto the…
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Re: Practice Diary 2023 - Jim King @Andre Bernier Thank you for your comments Andre. They have been quite useful in that they have made me think some more about my practice routine. I do have a question for you about the playing of…
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Re: Practice Diary 2023 - Jim King @Andre Bernier Unless I specifically mark a piece as one that I want to return to in the future I usually don't go back to previous pieces. I currently have 3 pieces marked as ones that I want to…
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Re: Experience with Alaska Picks @Andre Bernier Good to hear that you have found a solution for the scratching sound. Hope to see your angle of attack of the right hand in the next set of videos where you use the Alaska picks.
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Re: Practice Diary 2023 - Jim King @Andre Bernier Thank you Andre. Time now to put this one away so I can concentrate on other pieces.
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Re: Week 1: Improve your Recording Skills @martin Thank you for the feedback and for doing this intensive. I enjoyed doing this experiments and learning more about what works best for me.
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Re: Practice Diary 2023 - Jim King Since the Sor Challenge several months ago, off and on I have continued to work on the piece I submitted in that Challenge, Sor Op. 60 No. 9. Here is a recording of a recent play of this piece.
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Re: Week 1: Improve your Recording Skills Here are my results of conducting the experiments in Assignment #1. I also added a couple of extra experiments. As for equipment, I used a Shure MV88+ Stereo USB Microphone plugged into an iPhone 15.…
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Re: Practice Diary 2023 - Jim King @Andre Bernier Thank you Andre. Yes, this piece is from Bradford Werner’s Grade 1 book. I also enjoyed hearing various versions of this piece on YouTube.…
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Re: Practice Diary 2023 - Jim King Here is a version of The Spanish Pavin that I recently recorded. By way of background, a Pavin is a dance of Italian origin and was popular in Europe in the 16th Century.…
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Re: SIGN-UP: Improve Your Recording Skills with Martin! I have signed up. Looking forward to improving my recordings.
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Re: How important are the livestreams for you? I would have to say that I find that, for the most part, I benefit from the live streams. I will often find something interesting and useful for my development as a classical guitarist.…
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Re: Week 6: Triumph & Reflections @Ron Well done Ron. I enjoyed both of your pieces very much. I also enjoyed your sharing about your reaction when recording yourself. It just shows us newbies that being tense once the video light is…
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Re: Week 6: Triumph & Reflections @joosje Well done Joosje. I always find it amazing about classical music as to how different the same piece can sound when played by two or more performers.…
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Re: Experience with Alaska Picks @Andre Bernier Thanks for posting Andre. Looking forward to see how well you make out with them over the next little while.
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Re: Week 6: Triumph & Reflections @Andre Bernier You are making great progress with this piece Andre, well done! I thought that this posting was more musical than your earlier postings.
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Re: Week 5: Mastery in the Making @joosje @Jack Stewart @Steve Price @Andre Bernier Thank you everyone for your kind comments. I have been working on getting used to playing to the camera for the last couple of months and perhaps…
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