Group 3

Emma Thanks for the videos. I would say you are too critical with yourself !

Exc. 1.: I hear the dynamic differences, I would suggest you to take a slower tempo or you double the length of the crescendo and the decrescendo (instead of 8 notes you double it for 16), then you could concentrate more on the regulation of the volume changing. To avoid the tempo problem for this part (what you mentioned) try it with metronome. Basically I don't like metronome, but sometimes it helps. Second part: try to imagine or sing it once (or together) befor the execution. That helps also, and if you start it from a slower tempo you can make a bigger accelerando. And don't forget about the ritartando. Fourth part was nice (you played a bit different bass, but it doesn't matter for the exercise).

Exc. 2.: With a finger it was excellent, seems to me that you use to accentuate the melody. P was also nice, could be a bit louder. For i, m I would reccomend you to play it with my pre exercise, that will help you to get the clear idea of the necessary force for each finger.

Exc. 3.: LH staccato was great. RH alternated I would recommend you to take only free strokes here, with apoyando it doesn't work so well. P was excellent too.

Emma I loved your amarous character, you were brave enough to play it nice rubato which was necessary for this one. Your tempo flexibility is not a problem at all, what you feel not right is only that you took just a bit slower tempo which is very difficult to handle. 
Court dance: Tempo was nice for this character, the crescendo could be bigger, but I didn't really miss it.
Carol: Yes it was a bit metalico, but not too much. Tempo was fine and on legato you could still work a bit.

Generell: With legato you have problem because of the syncronity of two hands. Sometimes your RH fingers touch the strings before plucking, sometimes you change the fretnotes or the positions of the left hand too early.
You could spare more energy for your left arm, if you wouldn't hold your elbow so high. Try to hang from the fretboard, put the weight into the elbow.

joosje Thanks for the videos! I loved them all. Only couple of advices.
It's always very difficult to step out of our comfort zone, if you have never done this kind of things, but you did the first step and you can keep going with experimentation. Just belive me it worths it.

Brouwer: The basic charcters were good! It seems to me that you are handling the piece still only as an etude. There is so much potention in it, to make many different colors, dynamics, tempo changes, immediate accents, echos etc., so to make many different moods, happenings inside your basic character. For instance if you imagine a group of scouts walking in the wood singing this song, you can hear different voices out from this chor, somtimes a boy, sometimes a girl... It's true for your second character as well. If this hippy would have different thoughts about life etc. then you can show them also with different tools. Experiment with it (Maybe you will get to love the piece more too! )

Sor: You did a great job with no. 2, but I suggested the no. 1, congrats that piece is way more difficult. Incredible beautiful! Both characters were very well fit to this musical material and here you used much more colorful the musical tools. I would only recommend also in generell, if you change a color (secco here) stay there longer, than 1 measure, take the whole phrase with that color to show us this different mood more clearly and that it doesn't seem like an accident. The effect will be also much better.

Carcassi: Amoroso was great! Second version: If you want it to be playful or silly you could take even a bit faster tempo (I wouldn't play any rubato or vibrato here, more tempo giusto), more secco, you could play also crescendo at the second part of the phrase.

Llobet: All of the three version are outstanding!! I liked the 2. and 3. the most. 2. character so fresh and light, dancy also fits so well to this music. 3. it could be even more expressive try to overdo everythings. This two versions you could also mix up in one version, or if you repeat this phrase (in the score it is written) you could use this versions.

You have to step out your comfort zone, because you have great ideas, so don't worry, just keep going.

Emma Thanks for the videos!
I loved them from the first moment until the end. The circus charakter is genial and you played a perfect gradual accelerando!
Well done! I could imagine here to go to an even faster endtempo.(Of course with a new piece it's technically not really possible yet)
But I could see the whole scene of your idea!

Rubato: I liked it also very much. Your character became so illustrative. I would suggest to try to find more similar moments, as in measure 4. You played a beautiful ritartando with a tasty vibrato, you could use it also in the second half of the piece. Anyway how you played it's also very much exceptable! 

I hope I saw it well, you really enjoyed to play this two versions and you could step out from that valley and get more motivation for practicing. 

Just a notice: You played the repetition from measure 5-8, actually the score says to repeat it from the beginning, but I would say this is the case, when the interpreter create a much better version of the original piece, because for me your version sounds much better . I'm looking forward your Ponce prelude.

Emma I'm very glad, that I could motivate you a bit. Don't forget your goal is not the scales and exercises, but the music inside. I heard you playing beautiful legato, when you wanted to express your musical idea with it, so you can do it!
About fast playing, the most important is always the smallest movements of the fingers for both hands. I hope, that your experimetation with the relaxed left arm position will be succeeded.