WEEK THREE Updates: Main Thread - The Golden Sound of TƔrrega
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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Download the music here! (ā click)
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 played: Mazurka en Sol (one of my favorites that nobody has done so far)
What was easy: I love it so much that is was a joy to work on it. When I would finish it, all I'd want to do was play it again (and again, and again ...).
What was difficult: I could not get the slurs in measure 7 to sound good, so I plucked all the notes. The stretch in beat 3 of measure 21 is really hard for me. The long glissando in measure 22 was hard to pull off as well.
By the way, GSI recently released a video of Pepe Romero playing this that is fantastic. If you go listen to it, though, please don't listen to mine until much later as mine will suffer greatly in comparison!
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joosje Thank you so much, Joosje!
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Eric Phillips great work Eric, thank you for uploading - this is a very nice piece
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Eric Phillips Eric that's wonderful - really well played. That's another one on my to do list now!. Perhaps we need to do a Tarrega challenge every 3 months or so!
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Olli Thanks, Olli!
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Derek If someone told me I couldnāt play anything but Tarrega for the rest of my life, Iād be upset, but Iād still have plenty of joy!
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Eric Phillips you're also on a run to play most of Tarrega works! Thanks for sharing this piece, you definitely have affinity with this music style.
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Blaise Laflamme I am running out of intermediate pieces. Iāll leave the advanced ones to the heavy hitters in the group.
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Eric Phillips that was great Eric! Thank you so much for sharing. You played it with great feel and confidence.
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Debbie Thanks so much, Debbie!
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Promise kept.
Iām so grateful to Martin for bringing this challenge. Unfortunately, it wasnāt the best timing for me - and Tarrega is one of my favorites! I played so many of his pieces.
but here I was, packing, unpacking, (after driving from Prague to Belgium, again testing) cleaning, painting, assembling book cases ā¦
my fingers missed the subtle touch of the strings, nails broken or damaged
But a challenge is a challenge, so this week I took on two new pieces, and warming up with Tarrega s studies (those are great as well.)
Here is prelude No2, as promised (and explained in my previous posting). Quite demanding for the left hand, I can tell youā¦.
The sound quality isnāt ideal, but I really didnāt have time to work on that. Just a quick smartphone recording. Last week I received my line audio mics. Now I need to buy the interface and get the whole set organized ā¦ Iāll get back to Martins recording course.But playing comes first!
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joosje Beautiful, Joosje! That is is a difficult piece, but I can really hear the dialogue between the two voices. This piece always sounds like a father and daughter dancing to me, and I heard that in your playing.
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Eric Phillips thatās a nice metaphor, Iāll keep it in mindā¦ I actually never heard this piece played, so I had to come up with the phrasing solutions all by my self. Iāll work on it again some time.
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joosje wow- amazing, two new pieces in that short time
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joosje Beautiful Joosje
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joosje wow you sound great even on a smartphone
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joosje I think it sounds great Joosje! I always look forward to your playing. Tone is in the hands and even though you donāt have all your equipment set up you still made it sound beautiful.
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joosje wow this sounds great!
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Yeah, this is my bonus submission.
What was easy? I took a very moderate tempo and the chord progressions arenāt very complicated.
What was difficult? How to make the melodic material sound really lyrical and the bass notes soft and rhythmical. I didnāt quite live up to my goals, definitely need more than one week (Sunday-Friday in ātempo rubatoā
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joosje I love this! I think you definitely played with the qualities you mentioned. It was so gentle and melancholic. You just put another piece on my list!
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Eric Phillips thank you for you kind words, Eric. You must Try this one, itās so great working on it. Iāll will definitely keep this one on my list as well.
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joosje beautiful ! This is a really nice piece
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joosje Another beautiful piece - well played Joosje
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Derek thank you!
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Olli Danke!
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joosje introspective and sensitive playing, thanks for sharing your performance.
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