Week 2: Sharing the Journey 🌟
🌟 WELCOME TO THE "A FRESH START" COMMUNITY CHALLENGE! 🌟
Embark on a musical journey with our latest challenge, "A Fresh Start". It’s time to dust off that sheet music you’ve been eyeing and dive into a brand-new piece!
🗓️ CHALLENGE TIMELINE
- Challenge Start: Kick-Off on April 15th!
- Duration: April 15th to May 13th
- Watch Party: Join us on May 13th at 11 AM PST to watch selected submissions!
🎼 WEEK 2 ACTIVITIES
- Progress Sharing: You should have your new piece selected by now. This week, let's start sharing our progress. Post a video or describe what you've been working on. It's fascinating to see how everyone approaches the learning process!
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Working on the Ponce Sonata Classica. Going through my edition and finding error is less than encouraging. But watching videos and exploring fingerings in the first section. Practicing connections of odd left hand shapes this week.
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I'm working on G. Regondi's Etude no 1 got first half recorded now tackling the harder second part wish me luck lol.
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Video 2, my attempt of Tiento Antiguo by Joaquin Rodrigo, Bars 34 to End, this is such a beautiful piece of music, I only hope I can do it justice in the end. Just a little background, Tiento apparently was dedicated to Siegfried Behrend a german guitarist/composer who in 1953, gave the first German performance of Rodrigo's Concierto de Aranjuez. The piece is written in E phygrian mode or 3rd degree of C major scale.
Much work needed to clean it up, sharpen slurs, eliminate squeaks, clean up the Candenza's and piece it all together into a performance.
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A take of the Lento from Les Cinq Doigts. It's a fairly straight-ahead piece, but Stravinsky is playing with tonal ambiguity. The melody of the A section is played with a major third and the accompaniment is played with a minor third of the same key. Stravinsky lines up the parts so the thirds never play at the same time so it's not jarring, just a little off.
Just as an experiment I played the A section with the thirds either all major or minor to hear what they sounded like on their own.
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Sor – Le Calme Op 50 Sections A, B, C, and part of D
I thought I’d make a recording of the entire piece up to the point I have been practicing. At the time of my last submission, I wasn’t sure if the C section was possible for me to play. I’m a little more hopeful now. It still needs much work, but I don’t think it’s insurmountable.
Sorry for leaving you hanging in the middle of the D section on the dominant chord. That section gets pretty difficult after that point, and I haven’t even worked out fingering. Slow and steady wins the race, right?
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After trying for a few days, I think i’ve settled on the fingerings. It is pretty hard for me to stick to it as I realized i had so much bad habits with my right hand appregio picking. I tend to go i m a i when i play any appregio from g-b-e -e.
This exercise is great, I have somewhat memorized it. For now my aim is to make sure i’m conscious of my right hand and focussing on articulation.
