DAILY UPDATES (Click Me!) Main Thread - Where the magic happens!
Welcome, one and all, to the Main Thread for this challenge!
This is where the magic happens - the thread where we'll all be posting our daily updates.
Make sure you've read the rules before replying (<- click)
Every day between December 6th and 19th, we are hoping to read your daily updates in this very thread right here!
Please use the following format when commenting (feel free to copy & paste!):
- Landslag you worked on:
- One thing you found easy:
- One thing you found difficult:
- (Optional): a video of you performing it!
Sample daily update:
- Landslag you worked on: Landslag no. 1: dark sand dunes with some moss
- One thing you found easy: The first bar was the hardest one for me to learn, although it looked easy enough on my first try.
- One thing you found difficult: I liked that it was a single line; it allowed me to focus on every note and it was much easier to read than most pieces I play.
Feel free to make these updates as short or long as you wish!
Download the full score (click ↓):
Gulli's Lessons for each individual Landslag:
- Landslag no. 1, Landslag no. 2, Landslag no. 3, Landslag no. 4, Landslag no. 5, Landslag no. 6, Landslag no. 7, Landslag no. 8, Landslag no. 9, Landslag no. 10, Landslag no. 11.
Dedicated discussion threads for each Landslag:
- Landslag 1: dark sand dunes with some moss (<- click)
(More dedicated threads will be created as we progress throughout the challenge)
↓ Let's do this! Post your daily updates below ↓
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Landslag I worked on: Landslad II
Something I found easy: the left hand fingerings were relatively simple.
Something I found hard: just about everything, but the two biggest things were trying to synchronize my right and left hands (I found I would either get the right strings with my left hand or my right, getting both together was hard); and achieving a smooth feel with minimal dead spaces between the chord changes.
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Landslag no 1: Dark sand dunes with some moss
Easy: I found the pace very relaxed and easy on the right hand
Difficult: Initially some of my chord changes were not as smooth with the left hand as I would like
Having visited Iceland for the first time in January this year I can really associate with the scenery described by the music
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Landslag I worked on: No 2 littoral mud in the bottom of a Ford
What I found easy: as per no 1. Easy to sight read and fingering for both hands
Hard! Keeping the chords ringing as long as possible and then getting a smooth change to the next one. Also there are a couple of places where in consecutive bars we have a long short note sequence followed by a short long (e.g. bars 33 and 34) which I had to concentrate to get the timing right.
These are great pieces and I'm going to keep going and learn them all - I won't do it in 10 days though!
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- Landslag you worked on: Landslag no. 2: littoral mud in the bottom of a fjord
- One thing you found easy: playing it in general, LH and RH, choosing the tone and other musical aspects of playing it.
- One thing you found difficult: playing the semibreves (whole notes) perfectly legato; playing a diminuendo in bars 29-31 - after many attempts at making sense of it reached the conclusion that a crescendo made more overall musical sense instead, as well as a non-arpeggiato chord for the last chord. And recording it - after several takes I did manage to do a semi-not-terrible video, until I listened back to it and found my H4n microphone made the pitch lower and the sound out of sync... I'll try some other time. Oh, sorry, that should have been one thing. Never mind.
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- Landslag you worked on: Landslag no. 2, Littoral Mud in the Bottom of a Fjord
- One thing you found easy: Once the piece gets going in the second half, the natural resonance of the bass strings of the guitar enables very straightforward and beautiful shifts!
- One thing you found difficult: The first half was clearly engineered to disallow the maintaining of common left-hand fingers between chords. This is extremely difficult to achieve without noise, especially in a slow and quiet piece. Some LH preparation was possible, and yet I found myself resorting to all sorts of tricks to make the passage work as a whole. Most importantly, I had to independently release pressure in certain fingers in advance of others, in order to dampen a string that would have otherwise caused a shifting noise. The legato illusion was created therefore by maintaining certain notes while others were cut just a hair shorter than the rest of the chord. All in all, I had to use very advanced and difficult technique to make this seemingly easy piece work.
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Mircea said:
Most importantly, I had to independently release pressure in certain fingers in advance of others, in order to dampen a string that would have otherwise caused a shifting noise. The legato illusion was created therefore by maintaining certain notes while others were cut just a hair shorter than the rest of the chord. All in all, I had to use very advanced and difficult technique to make this seemingly easy piece work.For me exactly the same! But my guitar has relatively short sustain, so it is easier for me to cheat lightly when chords changes