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Re: WEEK 4: Fernando Sor for Everyone!! @Jack Stewart Thank you for posting those links to @Andre Bernier on RH preparation. I am sure I will find them useful as well.
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Re: WEEK 4: Fernando Sor for Everyone!! @Andre Bernier As for the exercises that @Jack Stewart is mentioning re planting your fingers, Werner also has exercises to practice this in his classical guitar technique book,…
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Re: WEEK 4: Fernando Sor for Everyone!! @Andre Bernier Thank you Andre. It is a challenging piece for our level, but very enjoyable. As you probably know, there is a TB lesson on this piece which is helpful.
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Re: WEEK 4: Fernando Sor for Everyone!! @Eric Phillips Thank you Eric. Feels good to start to bringing these qualities out in my playing.
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Re: WEEK 4: Fernando Sor for Everyone!! @Jack Stewart Thank you Jack. In the time leading up to this posting, I was focusing on phrasing and flow, as well as tempo. I wasn't so sure that the phrasing came out very well.…
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Re: WEEK 4: Fernando Sor for Everyone!! @Eric Phillips Enjoyed both of these menuets very much Eric. Well done!
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Re: WEEK 4: Fernando Sor for Everyone!! @Jack Stewart Enjoyed your pieces very much. Hard to believe that you haven't played for a month.
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Re: WEEK 4: Fernando Sor for Everyone!! @Marilyn Blodget Very nice Marilyn. I enjoyed that piece very much.
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Re: WEEK 4: Fernando Sor for Everyone!! Here is an update on my playing of Sor's Op. 60 No. 9. Still have plenty of issues to work on but I believe that I have improved over the challenge. As noted in a previous week,…
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Re: WEEK 3: Master of Classical Style! @Andre Bernier Thank you Andre. Hoping to do a recording in the next day or so.
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Re: WEEK 4: Fernando Sor for Everyone!! @Andre Bernier Great start Andre. Unless you put this piece away for the next 11 months, you will have it down pat soon. As an aside, not sure how much of Bradford Werner's materials you are using,…
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Re: WEEK 4: Fernando Sor for Everyone!! @Nijwm Bwiswmuthiary Very nicely done Nijwm. Your legato sounds really good.
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Re: WEEK 3: Master of Classical Style! @Eric Phillips Thank you Eric. Agreed, simplifying the fingerings does make a big difference. However, unlearning what has been previously learned can take a lot of time and effort to achieve.…
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- 11 days ago
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Re: V. Form, Dynamics, and Other Symbols // MAR 17th @Mircea It appears that we can no longer access the workbooks for the Reading Music Course for sessions 2 to 5 inclusive; only able to download the 1st workbook.…
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Re: WEEK 3: Master of Classical Style! @Rick Lord Thank you Rick.
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- 12 days ago
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Re: WEEK 3: Master of Classical Style! @Jack Stewart Thank you@Jack Stewart . I think simplifying the fingering in m.14-15 helped with the confidence level.
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Re: WEEK 3: Master of Classical Style! @Ernesto Well done Ernesto. Nice touch adding the score to the video which I was able to follow as you play.
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Re: WEEK 3: Master of Classical Style! @Eric Phillips Well done. I enjoyed the whole piece. Hope you get your i finger looked at soon.
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Re: WEEK 3: Master of Classical Style! This is my second posting of playing Sor's Op. 60 No. 9. This week I changed the fingering for measures 14 & 15. By eliminating the shifting I was originally doing,…
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Re: WEEK 2: Diving Deep into Sor's Style! @Wai Very nice. Enjoyed listening to what you have done already.
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Re: WEEK 2: Diving Deep into Sor's Style! @Rick Lord Sounds lovely all ready. Looking forward to hearing your progress on this piece.
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Re: WEEK 1: Exploring Sor's Music! @Andre Bernier Thank you Andre. I found the comments very useful so far as they are leading me to try different things and pay more attention to other details such as raising my wrist and the…
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- 2 wk ago
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Re: WEEK 1: Exploring Sor's Music! @Nijwm Bwiswmuthiary Thank you Nijwm for your encouragement. I found this to be an interesting exercise in that I do a lot of audio recording and I don't get anywhere near as tense as I did with this…
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Re: WEEK 1: Exploring Sor's Music! @David Krupka Thank you David. I will work on phrasing and getting the melody out better before I become concerned with increasing my tempo.
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Re: WEEK 1: Exploring Sor's Music! @Eric Phillips Thank you Eric. Great observation on your part about my right hand. When I watched the video I noticed that my right hand looked a little flat.…
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