Group 4

peter hancock hey Peter, great to hear. Looking forward to seeing your video! The classical guitar bible! That’s a great book. Super thorough!

Evan Taucher  Are we to play all three of those pieces or are we to pick one for video?

peter hancock Hi Peter, one is fine, you can try others if you'd like of course!

peter hancock Hi Peter, nice video, and thanks for the kind words about the videos! You are preparing your fingers quite well, congratulations! The main thing I want to mention about your video is to make sure you are being perfectly rhythmically precise (in the first part of the video). For almost all of the video you are sliding in and out of sync with the metronome. Setting your metronome on subdivisions may help you stay more perfectly locked in. Believe it or not, building rhythmic precisions here may be of even more use than anything else in the exercise. I've found for some, working on rhythm is the single most important thing in their music making as a whole (forget the guitar!!). Because coordination on the guitar is paramount, if the rhythm isn't super precise in the RH, it's hard to put everything together. 
As far as the HVL etude 1 you mention at the end, please don't worry about learning all of the chords and switching between them - just hold down an e minor chord (the first chord) and practice away. Since we're talking about arpeggios here, I don't want you to spend most of your time thinking about the Left Hand. 

Again, working on being rhythmically precise is my biggest piece of advice for you. Make sure you're "right on the money" with the metronome. I'd also recommend checking out this Adam Neely video about improving upon your rhythm. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIfD7ZN5FYI&t=143s

Hope that helps!

Thanks so much.  I am paying more attention to the rhythm. I am playing the Prelude 4 at 54 BPM. Maybe have to lower it more. Really appreciate  your helpfulness. I will check out Adam Neely

Peter

peter hancock Great to hear!!

peter hancock Peter, nice idea with chopping up this etude! In general, I'd recommend just sticking with maybe the first 2 chords and looping those as if it was an exercise. Then, slowly add more "chords". Otherwise, your preparation is very nice here. You're just going a little too fast to build the best habits in both hands. A lot of those "stop and starts" can be avoided by taking it slower and practicing a bit more deliberately with metronome, although I hear you - those chords can be intoxicatingly fun!

Evan Taucher Thanks for your review and suggestions. I actually use this as an fun exercise in shifting and arpeggios. I noticed that I unconsciously left out the first  finger "i" in the first exercise and again the first  "a" finger in the third exercise.  I have corrected that. Thanks so much for your guidance.

Fernando Ponte Fernando - great work!! Sorry for the late response. You're doing extremely well. One thing I'd watch out for is your pinky curling up. This is usually just a result of tension. Make sure the pinky moves and relaxes with your 'a' finger. A way to work on this is by starting your practice with some exercises of just plucking the a finger alone and letting it relax quickly. Pay attention there to see if your pinky relaxes too - it should. I talk more about it in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1CiHV9BAqg

Otherwise everything is looking really great. If I had to say anything else, it would be to watch out with your p and i finger movement. When you accent with you i finger, you often displace your hand a bit. Sometimes the p finger plucking displaces your hand a bit as well. 

Great work and thanks for making the videos. Keep it up!