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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Piece I'm playing: Chopin's Prelude No 7 (arr. Tarrega). Tarrega definitely "guitarized" this piano piece by Chopin, and so maybe all the "guitarisms" like glissandos and vibrato should be minimized. I say otherwise - if Chopin had written for guitar, would he not have included such expressive techniques? We don't play Scarlatti's sonatas without dynamics just because the harpsichord had no dynamics, do we?
What was easy: It's short and straightforward.
What was difficult: The double glissandos are tricky. The B major chord in measure 12 is not hard, but a bit unusual.
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Eric Phillips this is such a great transcription of a little gem by Chopin and you play it really beautifully. Thanks for sharing, Eric
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joosje Thank you, Joosje!
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Eric Phillips bravo Eric! Well played
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Vilio Celli Thank you, Vilio!
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Eric Phillips what a delicate touch and sound, bravo!
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Blaise Laflamme Thanks, Blaise. I was going for delicate, but when I listen to my playing it seems too heavy. This is music that just needs to be placed very gently in front of the listener.
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- One thing you found easy: tune the guitar
- One thing you found difficult: everything, so slowly my concentration is waning. Thank God, the Challenge ends soon...
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Olli Excellent! Nice, snappy rhythms. Great musicality.
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Eric Phillips Dear Eric, thank you very much for your kindly comment. I feel tired at the moment -trying to record "Marieta" ...
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Olli que bueno! Gracias Olli!
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Olli Bravo!!!
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Dear Community, this is my final piece for the Challenge. There are so many Pieces left....I thought about the "Prelude 2" as my final Piece, but tomorrow I will spend my whole time together with my wife and my three girls, so I have to do a cut. The "Pool" is waiting
I am looking forward to Mondays "Watch Party" and, dear Martin, the "Nitsuga-Challenge"
. As always, there is much work to do, playing the piece "perfectly" ... but within this short time I am happy with the results ... See you Monday
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Olli great Playing. Beautiful sound. Thanks a lot for sharing.
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Olli Another great performance! I hope you enjoy your family time tomorrow.
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Olli you did an amazing job on all these wonderful pieces. You deserve a relaxed Sunday . Enjoy the pool. I hope the weather in Germany will be better than here in Belgium (thunder showers). Nice, we also have three daughters (and soon three sons ‘in law’ or Schwiegersöhne as you would call them, it’s fun! Good guys. We’ll have a wedding this summer. As the French say « qui marie mal sa fille perd sa fille qui marie bien sa fille gagne un fils… see you Monday, let the music flow….
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joosje Dear Joosje, it was not really hot today - many clouds. I found some time to practice and learned an new Piece. Wow -wedding is great -congratulations . My girls are 5, 16 and 18 .... it will hopefully take some time till Marriage and grandchilds. Best Regards
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here's me playing Tárrega's Prelude 1 in D Minor, trying out my new zoom mic.
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Vilio Celli Good job, Vilio! That was quite a tour of the fingerboard!
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Vilio Celli well done Vilio, bravo. Thank you for submitting. Is the zoom only mic or also camera?
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joosje thanks! No it’s a zoom h2n mic and FaceTime video
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here's the YouTube link to my video https://youtu.be/Cpgb0PZj6v0
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Vilio Celli Hello Vilio, thank you very much for uploading this piece - this as also a piece I never heard before ...
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Vilio Celli Bravo!!!
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Good Morning, it is too early in the morning for laying around at the pool, so I decided to work on another Piece „Prelude in Am“ .... I will record this today/tonight as my last post to the challenge.
This is a complete „new“ piece for me - never ever played in the past. But listening to Joosje performing it, i wanna play that nice piece also. Maybe very slow, but i‘ll try .
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Olli go for it! It’s tough but truly worthwhile. Seeing your prolificacy in submitting for this challenge I was secretly planning to record some of my ‘old’ pieces as well, but, today my m-nail decided to part from me. Now I can’t find my tone, let alone play a fluent tremolo. No experience with fake nails and no time to experiment. I am so looking forward to the watch party tomorrow and hearing all this beautiful music our friends posted these 3 weeks.
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