WEEK THREE Updates: Main Thread - The Golden Sound of Tárrega
Hellooo, everyone, and welcome to WEEK THREE - the final Main Thread for this challenge! 
Where is the Week 1 and Week 2 thread?
Find the Week 1 thread here and Week 2 thread 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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Some guy named Francisco keeps popping up all over my house with these short little preludes. Any idea how I can get rid of him?
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Eric Phillips why get rid of Tarrega preludes? There are some more to go. And they are all such wonderful miniatures , so please continue Eric!
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Eric Phillips What a crazy guy, but he definitely can play guitar, so keep him
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Eric Phillips Haha, that's SO cool and amazing that you took the time to record so many of this wonderful miniatures! Though they are very sure, they still need to be practiced, so GREAT JOB!
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Eric Phillips wow eric you're so creative, I'm amazed by what you've done. You made those pieces sound very good.
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Blaise Laflamme Thanks, Blaise!
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Eric Phillips The prelude 11 sounds so beautiful, I've not heard of it before. Gonna learn that next..
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don Thanks, Don!
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Eric Phillips these are great! I didn’t even know about them! Thank you for sharing. You played them so nicely!
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Debbie Thank you, Debbie!
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- One thing you found easy: nothing
- One thing you found difficult: it needs much practice time to bring up to speed - there are some parts feel to me as a brake .... ( bar 4 and 8 and all repetitions of them
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Olli That's a tough one, especially to get it up to speed! Well done!
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Martin thank you very much for you Kindly comment. Yes, to speed up this piece it is so much practice to do....
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Olli Well played Olli - it's a hard one!
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Olli that's great Olli you already got a good speed in such no time, can't wait to listen to it in a few days or weeks
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- One thing you found difficult: I practice tremolo for years and it is very hard to let it flow. After last virtual-Masterclass with Mircea I spend much much much time on practicing tremolo. The main thing I changed was the articulation : I always played P a m I for years and now changed ( for most of the piece
) to p A m I ..... that was, I hope, the key to a better tremolo... If I let my fingers become too fast, I always fall back to P a m I . Because of that I need more time to reset the old articulation and let the "new" become my intuition version. For my feeling I need another 6 month time to speed up another 20bpm .... that would be my goal - a real killer tremolo 
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(If you put the Playback speed to 1.25 .....that would be my dream-tempo)
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Olli To be honest, I like it better at the tempo you played. Putting it at 1.25 sounded too fast to me. I wish I could pull off tremolo like you!
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Eric Phillips Dear Eric, maybe 1.25 is sometimes way too fast - but I think when the beat is over or at least 150 BPM - that becomes a nice flow .....
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Olli Great Tremolo! I really should step up my tremolo game as well, that's on my bucket list! Tremolo Challenge with all Tremolo pieces ever written incoming?
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Martin dear Martin, thank you very much for your kindly words - I really practiced a lot and it helped
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Martin Hey, Tremolo Challenge - yeah, let's do this !
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Olli Very Beautiful
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Olli Nice work on this difficult piece!! It is so hard to play this well with even, legato, balanced flowing notes, dynamics and good tone ( and not hitting adjacent strings, ha ha). Everything in both hands have to work and coordinate perfectly to achieve it, and that's why it's so challenging. You're doing a great job, so keep it up, and thanks for sharing it with us!
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Olli great tremolo Olli, you sound super clean!
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Olli great tremolo Olli. I have actually gone through the same process with tremolo articulation as you and you’re right that pAmi makes it smoother. I warm up with pima too. I practice it a bit every day although I’ve never tried Recuerdos. Not sure my left hand could pull it off as it’s a bit compromised.
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