Week 3: Music is Music! 
Welcome to the Main Thread for the last week of the transcription challenge! This is the place for the Week 3 Submissions!
- Make sure you've read the guidelines before replying (<- click)
- Watch the kickoff livestream for help with the first section!
If you want to describe your process (optional), feel free to use the following template.
- Things you found easy:
- Things you found difficult:
- (Optional): a video of you performing it!
- (Optional:) questions
↓ Reply below with your Progress Update and Questions! ↓
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Lutoslawski Folk Melody #4
This is second Folk Melody I have recorded. It is not difficult though I have some difficulties getting the fingering right
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Jack Stewart Nice. I like Lutoslawski. Who did the transcription?
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Jack Stewart great Jack. Tanks for posting. I like the piece. And you make it sound energetic and rhythmical. Can’t believe it’s easy….
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Eric Phillips Thanks Eric. I'm afraid the tricky part on this one is in my head.
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Dale Needles Thanks Dale. This transcription was by Raymond Burley.
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joosje Thanks Joosje. I'll hopefully make a cleaner recording - however my experience with recordings is quite frustrating.
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Jack Stewart Thanks, I will check it out.
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Chopin Mazurka Op 7 No 2 (Jan 22)
Well, I decided to give a go at doing my own transcription. I'm not sure if I'll ever get to the end, but we'll see. So far, I have measures 1-32 done. Here are a couple videos of what I have so far.
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Eric Phillips well done, Eric. It’s not easy to make Chopin sound as natural on the guitar as on the piano. I think your transcription makes a lot of sense.
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Chopin Mazurka Op 7 No 2 measures 1-32 (Jan 22)
I've been practicing this for about an hour now. I find it very addictive! I made a few changes to what I played above.
The next section is a step up in difficulty. We’ll see how it goes!
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Eric Phillips Your persistence is paying off. That sounded very solid.
As I was listening I noticed about midway this chromatic descending chord sequence each with an upper 3rd? (not very good at aural id) but it just struck me as very Chopinesque. Anyway it is really nice hearing this one on guitar.
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Jack Stewart Yeah, that part is pretty cool. I'm not familiar enough with Chopin to know that it is Chopinesque, but I'll take your word for it. To my ear, it actually sounds almost Latin (which probably shows how little I know).
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Eric Phillips I just realized that it is in the Chopin op. 69.2 that I have presented here that is probably what I was referencing. Interesting that I recognized the phrase but didn't immediately recognize where.
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The Venezuelan guitarist/composer, Antonio Lauro was a great admirer of Venezuelan Children Songs. He arranged many for the guitar including a beautiful set of sixteen little Cancion Infantil Venezolana. The following is my recording of two the songs: El Trompo (spinning top) and El Cocherito (stroller). They are simple little melodies and beautifully arranged by Mastro Lauro.
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Dale Needles Those were both really beautiful, Dale! Thanks for sharing those with us.
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Dale Needles These are really nice. It's interesting how frequently composers arrange children's songs - Schumann, Kodaly and Bartok to think of a few.
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Jack Stewart I agree it is interesting how children's songs inspire so many composers. It may be their simplicity of melody or their roots in folkloric traditions that inspire these composers. For what I know of Venezuelan music, children's songs play an important role in traditional and classical Venezuelan music. In any case, whatever the reason, it makes for some great music.
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Schuberts Liebesbotschaft. Tried to set up my new equipment and made a recording of my first attempt to get this piece together. Its probably very foolish to try new recording settings with a new piece. okay, this challenge is a little short for my needs. I do have other pieces/transcriptions, but they all need more practice.
the third week is almost over. So, although it is far from ready I thought I’d send this message of love out to the Tonebase friends.Btw I don’t really know what to do to have the best setup for the mics and editing of the sound. Need lots of experimenting, I guess.
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joosje That was very beautiful Joosje. Your very close to having that refined. That's for the beautiful performance.
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joosje That is a beautiful piece, and the transcription works well on the guitar. Also, your recording set up sounds and looks good. Thanks for sharing.
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joosje What a wonderful message of love it is! I had not heard this before, but it is very beautiful. Your sound is great - I'm sure the nice new equipment helps, but it's mostly in your hands. Despite the length, you kept it very interesting with your musicianship.
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I am definitely not on par with the rest of the group. Trained Capricho Catalan for several weeks...
Here my best shot (number 31, the previous 30 were even worse...). If I get one better before next 2 days I will upload...
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Luciano Salvatore That was pretty good. That is a major piece of music. I would break it down into smaller sections. I refer to Eric on this as he is one of the masters here of methodical practice (there are many others - however I am not one of them
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Luciano Salvatore that’s a pretty good job there. not easy at all! I’m working on this piece, too, but in the G major version, If I have time I will try to make (maybe even submit) a recording.
You are definitely on the way to a good performance, nice tone and steady rhythm. well done and thank you for sharing it.
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Luciano Salvatore thanks for sharing Luciano, you are building your beautiful piece. I am also not on par with the rest of the group but this is the nice of this group, each has his rythm and style, etc etc. Continue with this piece in the practice diary and we will follow you growing!!!! Follow Jack advise....small sections.
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Luciano Salvatore this is sounding good Luciano. You have a nice tone. We should have a challenge for the most takes - sometimes when I send in a video I don't know if my hand is tired from playing or from pressing the record button :-)
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