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Re: ✋ How do you decide your fingerings?
At this stage of my learning, at best early intermediate, I will use the fingerings provided in the score I am playing. I will, however, make changes if I run into a part that I find difficult or…
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Re: Week 4: Play us out 🎉
@Barney Well done Barney. The piece is flowing nicely and is quite enjoyable in this recording. Hope you will post again once you work on it some more.
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Re: Week 3: Let's hear it 🎥
@Eric Phillips Another beautiful piece well played. Thanks for sharing.
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Re: Week 3: Let's hear it 🎥
@Eric Phillips All 3 of those pieces are well done. And thank you for the story information on all of them, it made the listening that more enjoyable.
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Re: Week 2: What's on your music stand? 🎶
@Steve Price Well done Steve. Also thank you for the additional information.
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Re: Week 2: What's on your music stand? 🎶
@Eric Phillips I have to agree with @Ron in that this is such a beautiful piece and you are playing it well as far as I am concerned. I will also leave it to others to make any suggestions for…
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Re: Week 1: Play Whatever You Love ☀️🎸
@Steve Price Sounds great Steve. You have it well under controlled. Also, very musical at the current tempo.
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Re: Week 1: Play Whatever You Love ☀️🎸
@Blaise Laflamme Well done Blaise. A beautiful tribute to Gizmo.
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Re: 🔥 The first ten minutes — how do you warm up?
I have a fixed warm-up routine. It starts with 4 minutes of gentle stretches (I think there are 10 different stretches done here, some are repeated). I will then do some right hand movements on the…
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Re: Week 1: Play Whatever You Love ☀️🎸
@Eric Phillips Beautifully played Eric. Just so relaxing. Perfect for a rainy Sunday.
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Re: 👩‍🏫 A teacher, or on your own?
I am an online learner and have never had a teacher for guitar playing. This has definitely presented its own challenges but I believe that I have arranged things in such a way to meet them.…
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Re: Week 6: Rise of the Maestro
@Jack Stewart Well done Jack. As already stated, it sounds beautiful and flowed quite well. So congratulations on all of your hard work to get to this point.…
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Re: ⏱️ You and the metronome — what's the real story?
I would say that the metronome and I have become good friends. It hasn't always been like that. It has taken time to reach that stage. Nowadays, I use the metronome a lot when I am practising…
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Re: Everything Will Be Allright - Wolfgang Vedral
@Blaise Laflamme What a beautiful piece, and so uplifting. Great piece for the soul during these troubling times. Thanks for sharing. Jim
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Re: 🎧 What has recording yourself taught you?
Over time, I have increased the amount of self-recording that I do. I have found it to be a great tool for analyzing what I am doing, to be a record of my progress, and to record performances.…
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Re: Week 6: Rise of the Maestro
@Debbie Well done Debbie.
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Re: Week 6: Rise of the Maestro
@Michelle P Well done Michelle. You have made great progress on this piece. I hope you post again when ready.
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Re: Week 6: Rise of the Maestro
@Dale Needles Great performance Dale and congratulations on reaching your goal of completing these Microestudios.
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Re: Week 6: Rise of the Maestro
@Steve Price Beautiful performance, Steve. Both are such interesting movements.
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Re: Week 6: Rise of the Maestro
@Nijwm Bwiswmuthiary Well done Nijwm. You have made great progress with this over the challenge.
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Re: Week 6: Rise of the Maestro
@Lars Kjøller-Hansen Great performance and great work over the last 6 weeks. Hope you post another recording of this piece once you had some more time with it, although it sounds pretty good to me!
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Re: Week 6: Rise of the Maestro
@Jack Stewart Sounding good Jack. Sounds like you are on the right track. Looking forward to any further recordings you make on this piece.
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Re: Week 6: Rise of the Maestro
@Barney That was beautiful Barney. Well done.
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Re: Week 6: Rise of the Maestro
@Eric Phillips A beautiful piece Eric. Well done.
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- 2 mths ago
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Re: Week 5: The Guitar Awakens
@Steve Price That is what I have been instructed to do, break it down to small segments (such as a phrase or a few measures or a single measure as appropriate) and make the interpretive elements part…
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