WEEK 4: Homenaje a la Guitarra 🎶
Welcome to the Main Thread for the fourth week of our musical Journey to Spain!! This is the place to share submissions of the fourth week! 🔥
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Antonio Cano – El Eco
Here is a piece by Cano that is very different than the one I posted yesterday. It’s a blast to play! The title becomes obvious once you listen to it. The shifting is absolutely crazy (bordering on ridiculous). I botched more than a few of them, but I hope it is still listenable.
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Eric Phillips Awesome! I've never heard of that composer either, but as Emma was pointing out this could be a great musical exercise for shifts!
Jack Stewart He sight-readed that?!?! I had exactly one sight-reading exam, it was for the entrance exam at the Royal Academy and Steve Goss was in the Jury. Thankfully I looked like a total geek back then, I don't think he recognized me (yet), otherwise we probably wouldn't do so much livestreams together 🤡 I am really bad at sight reading.
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Martin Thank you, Martin. No, I was not sight-reading. I’m not sure why Jack thought I was. That’s pretty cool, though, about Steve Goss being on your jury!
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Eric Phillips Probably because no one wants to imagine that besides posting video submissions on tonebase you still manage to find time to actually practice these pieces 🙈🔥
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Martin We won’t tell them that you magically turned me into John Williams. Unfortunately, I’m John Williams after drinking a couple bottles of Rioja! (Actually, I bet he’d still play way better than me even with all that wine.)
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Eric Phillips I must confess I did not know Antonio Cano 😐.
Very nice pieces....! how do you do "Mensch" (hombre!) so many different pieces...thanks for sharing this Eric!
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Nora Torres-Nagel Thank you, Nora. I think I must have ADD (Attention Deficit Disorder).
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Eric Phillips It's sounding great, Eric! A lot of work to make the repeats sounding interesting, but you did!
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Moyses Lopes Thanks, Moyses!
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Eric Phillips I assumed you were sight reading because you present so much music. I am retired and I thought I was practicing a lot but I can barely get 2 pieces together in a month. So you;'re not sight reading? - just masterful at learning new music quickly. Either way it is humbling.
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Jack Stewart It's a combination of having the week off of work (all schools here are closed for a week in February), being completely obsessed, and choosing easier pieces to play.
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Martin I had assumed he was sight reading because of his prodigious submissions.
I have a similar experience from having attended a Pepe Romero masterclass when I had only been playing for about a year. I shudder to think he might remember me. I mentioned this in the submission for your master class.
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Jack Stewart Martin
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Eric Phillips Hahahaha, I love it!!!
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Eric Phillips 😂I'm afraid Pepe's expression is too cordial for that memory
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Now I want to share my Granada!!! which still needs a lot of work but the challenge is finishing...and this will take me quite a lot of time yet....sooo community here it is.... I continue working on it in my practice diary...
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Hey guys, I joined this challenge very late , so the pieces I submit are works in process, I won't be available to do any updates before the watch party.
This piece used to be a favorite encore by Segovia and Angel Romero.
