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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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Re: Week 5: Mastery in the Making
Here is an update to my previous post playing Carcassi’s Allegretto in C from his Méthode complète pour la guitare, Opus 59. I feel that this video is representative of my current abilities in…
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Re: Week 5: Mastery in the Making
@joosje All 3 pieces are beautiful. I enjoyed listening to all 3 of them. Thanks.
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Re: Week 4: Expressive Exploration
@Andre Bernier Please keep us informed as to your experience with the Alaska picks. When I break a nail I just play with the fingertip instead. Would be interesting to see if these picks will serve…
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Re: What's on Your Stand?
@David Krupka Thank you David for the information. It is interesting to learn about some of the history to better understand the music we play. For the score,…
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Re: What's on Your Stand?
@David Krupka I listened to the Christopher Wilson recording and agree that it is a beautiful recording. As this recording and others have shown me, the score I have is only one part of the whole…
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Re: Week 4: Expressive Exploration
@Andre Bernier Andre, you are making good progress on this piece. Well done. The Alaska picks look interesting. They kinda look like goalie masks for the fingers!…
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Re: What's on Your Stand?
@Hatef Yamini I see that as well. Also, I notice that we are both using Bradford Werner as a source for scores. Are you following his lessons as well?
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Re: What's on Your Stand?
As a beginner, I tend to have several pieces on the go at any one time including a practice plan on technique exercises from the online course I am currently following,…
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