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Re: Week 6:Reflections on the Journey: Final Touches @Eric Phillips I really like your articulation in this piece, Eric. Your separation of voices and clear musical ideas are excellent.Beatiful!
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Re: Week 6:Reflections on the Journey: Final Touches @Dale Needles Beautifully played, Dale. Your tone control and articulation really brings this music to life. An amazing job in such a short time considering how complex this music is.
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Re: Week 5: A Polished Finish: Preparing to Showcase @joosje Thanks Joosje.
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Re: Week 5: A Polished Finish: Preparing to Showcase Thanks Joosje. This transcription is by John Duarte which I think is pretty good. Stanley Yates also has a very good transcription. However his is in the key of ‘C major’ which I believe is the…
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Re: Week 5: A Polished Finish: Preparing to Showcase @Eric Phillips These are great, Eric. I don’t think I have heard this Sor piece before. Your excellent feel for his music is evident in this performance. The Carulli piece is also played very well.…
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Re: Week 5: A Polished Finish: Preparing to Showcase Thanks, Dale. I am currently in Phnom Penh waiting for our flight to Siem Reap (Ankar Wat): The first day has been a bit rough - about 20 hrs of transit w/ layover and no sleep.…
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Re: Week 5: A Polished Finish: Preparing to Showcase @JUAN ALONSO Thanks Juan. This is finally coming around. I used to play most of this suite (except the Gigue) to varying degrees of success. Perhaps I'll try again on the other movements.
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Re: Week 5: A Polished Finish: Preparing to Showcase @Derek Thanks Derek. I hope to eventually get a clean recording - but not for this challenge. I am leaving in less than 2 hours for a 3 week vacation.
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Re: Week 5: A Polished Finish: Preparing to Showcase @JUAN ALONSO Thanks Juan.
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Re: the tonebase End of the Year Concert! Hi Martin. Following on Srinath's suggestion. I understand not automatically recording and posting these concerts for the comfort of the performers. However,…
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Re: the tonebase End of the Year Concert! @Khiem Nguyen Thanks, Khiem. My wife (who is Vietnamese) and I are going to Cambodia for a week, focusing on Angkor Wat. We are then going to Saigon to spend Christmas with her sister.…
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Re: Week 5: A Polished Finish: Preparing to Showcase @JUAN ALONSO Beautiful, Juan. You have a great feel for this music. Your technique and phrasing are great. I always found this piece to be deptively difficult.…
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Re: Week 5: A Polished Finish: Preparing to Showcase Bach BWV 1009 Prelude (3rd Cello Suite) I have had this piece in my repertoire for years (decades actually!). It had bee dormant for about 10 years when I revived it for the February Challenge.…
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Re: Week 5: A Polished Finish: Preparing to Showcase Schumannn Winterzeit I & II op. 68.38-39 final (probably) I have made some small corrections to the transcription and made some interpretive changes as well.…
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Re: the tonebase End of the Year Concert! I am sad to miss this concert. I will be in Vietnam from Dec. 15 - Jan 5. I will try to watch in real time and will certainly watch the replay. Oops, I just read that this event will not be recorded.…
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Re: how to record? Hi Peter, I am not the best source of information for this but I will try to provide some info. Hopefully some of the more accomplished videographers will join in.…
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Re: Week 4: The Flow of Practice: Bringing It Together @Nijwm Bwiswmuthiary This is really sounding good, Nijwm. It is very impressive how you maintain the beautiful melodic despite the many leaps (and with harmonics!).…
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Re: Week 4: The Flow of Practice: Bringing It Together @Dale Needles Thanks Dale. I think I will have some revisions to the transcription though they will be fairly subtle. I still hope to get a better recording before I leave for VN (in 4 days!).…
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Re: Week 4: The Flow of Practice: Bringing It Together @joosje Thanks Joosje. Both pieces, combined, create quite a musical journey. I also think they work very well on guitar, however, I am really surprised that I haven't heard any recordings of these…
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Re: Week 4: The Flow of Practice: Bringing It Together @JUAN ALONSO You have improved tremendously since you previous posting. I really like the d minor section, especially starting around 3:00. This is a great piece and you are doing a great job with it.
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Re: Week 4: The Flow of Practice: Bringing It Together @Eric Phillips Thanks Eric. I think these pieces work very nicely on guitar. I hadn't listened to much Schumann before I came across these pieces. I think I'll look into more works from this opus.…
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Re: Week 4: The Flow of Practice: Bringing It Together @Eric Phillips Wow! That is really beautiful, Eric. Your phrasing and articulations are amazing. You really bring this piece alive. You were always playing this piece really well,…
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Re: Week 4: The Flow of Practice: Bringing It Together Schumann Winterzeit I & II op. 68.38-39 I finally managed a decent recording of both Winterzeit I & II in a single take (no small feat for me!) This still needs refinement but it is mostly there.…
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Re: Week 4: The Flow of Practice: Bringing It Together Schumann Winterzeit II op. 68.39 update somewhat better This is a better recording, though complete with blunders and dogs. The second section is still tricky but at least the repeats are generally…
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Re: Week 3: Turning Points: Overcoming Hurdles @Eric Phillips Thanks Eric. I have a collection of transcriptions of Schumann for guitar (Das Schumann Buch fur Gitarre) that contains these 2 pieces. Winterzeit I was a pretty effective…
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I started classical guitar when I was about 20. I had been playing rock guitar for several years and decided to change. I had no idea what classical guitar was so, after signing up for lessons I bought a record (I go way back) of John Williams playing Bach's Chaconne. I remember thinking "Wow, I am going to learn That?!" I am still thinking 'Wow, I am going to learn That!!'
30 years ago I attended graduate school in Music History at U of W. My guitar playing has ebbed and flowed over the years, but now that I have retired, I am determined to devote much more time to it.