WEEK ONE Updates: Main Thread - Awakening Tárrega's Spirit
Hello and welcome to the WEEK ONE Main Thread for this challenge! 😍
Alright my friends - this is the thread where we'll all be posting our daily updates.
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Twice a week between Mai 31st and June 21st, I hope to be reading your daily updates in this very thread right here!
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Please use the following format when commenting (feel free to copy & paste!):
- One thing you found easy:
- One thing you found difficult:
- (Optional): a video of you performing it!
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Here is a quick snapshot of my progress with Maria. I have been practicing since Saturday, so I guess that is four days. It's still a bit slower than I'd like, and has a few problem areas. I'm happy to have it pretty well memorized, though. It is just so fun to play!
I am also posting what I find to be the most difficult measure, specifically measure 41 which has a portamento from E to A on the first string. I play it several times slowly in the video. I'd be very interested to hear what Martin or any of you think could improve my playing of it. Right now, I'm only accurately hitting the correct notes about 50% of the time.
Martin - I did watch the video you suggested on shifting and have already begun doing the exercise you gave. Man, that is a killer! I am hopeful that practicing the exercise will help this piece and many others.
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Hi Martin, I enter as a mere novice compared to the other cognicenti . I throughly enjoy other peoples music, but I am still a beginner. So this is for the ones who keep trying (50+years). I am trying to improve my Lagrima, love Tarrega. I tend to play in isolated rooms so it can be very nerve wracking to expose my attrocious playing. Today starting with the first sentence.
Easy: Being over 6' and longish fingers, the stretching for the left hand was not too difficult.
Hard: Going from measure 4 to 5 and avoiding the barre to ghet speed and pain in left thumb.
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I chose Estudio en forma de Minuetto because I like the way it moves along and uses scales. Not sure there is an 'easy" comment I can make, but it looks like a challenging piece to play up to tempo. I hope to eventually play it up to the tempo that I've heard from guitarists online. It looks like a good challenge, and it looks like a piece that will help me improve my technique. Neil
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Hi everyone, here is my warm up piece- LaGrima. As I mentioned a bit above, I have learnt Lagrima and Recuerdos de la Alhambra. I am posting this La Grima as a warm up, thanks to the nice suggestion from Blaise Laflamme . I am choosing to work on Adelita and Gran Vals in this challenge. In the next few days, I will post my progress about Adelita :) Look forward to seeing your progress also; hope we can all motivate each other :)