WEEK 1: Ho Ho Ho! 🎄
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Practicing Greensleeves. Check out my dog's ears. She's definitely listening and wiggling her ears! 😀
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Roland Dyens The Wiz
Today rehearsal on bars three and four: armonics again... -
Villancico de Navidad update (Dec 10)
It's slowly getting under my fingers. I still struggle with the harmonics section and the minor section, but there is some improvement. My dog comes in at about 0:50.
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Villancico de Navidad Update (Dec 11)
I'm starting to add a bit more color changes and musical interest now. Even though it's not a fast piece, I find that when I'm playing it, it feels like a train that just keeps going and I'm trying to keep up. It's hard for me to make it more musical when my mind and fingers are feeling frantic.
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Hi y’all, I’m working on while shepherds watched their flocks by G. F. Handel will post video soon
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Based on a review of new music in the current issue of “Soundboard”, the periodical from the Guitar Foundation of America, I sent away for one of the reviewed pieces: “Five Fantasies on Gregorian Themes” by Marco Reghezzi (Ut Orpheus Edizioni CH 292). I just received it last week.
One of the five fantasies, "Puer natus in Bethlehem" (A child is born in Bethlehem) is a medieval Latin Christmas hymn. The thirteenth-century text is traditionally associated with a fourteenth-century tune of the same name. Like the earlier carol, I played, “Jesus Jesus, Lay Your Head”, it begins with a simple melody (like the Gregorian Chant it is taken from) but develops into a very nice piece suitable (I think) for a solemn Christmas service. It clearly needs more work but I wanted to share this gem from the thirteenth century.
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White Christmas
Thought I'd try this for a little change of pace. The arrangement is by Jeremy Choi (with some adaptations by me). Bing Crosby, eat your heart out! ❤️🎅
