(Old Submission Thread, 2020 - Mar 2021) CALL FOR RECORDINGS for upcoming Virtual Masterclass with Mircea Gogoncea
This thread has become too long, and is now therefore closed for submissions. Feel free to use the new thread to submit videos for future virtual masterclasses with me! Same rules as always apply.
Announcement:
Following the success of the first Community Virtual Masterclass on December 13th (<- click to watch), we are once again looking for submissions for the next Virtual Masterclass with me.
A new date and time will be announced once we have 2-3 suitable submissions. So please, go ahead and submit your videos to us by replying to this very thread!
Submissions are accepted on a rolling basis (no deadline), so if yours doesn't make it into this upcoming masterclass, we hope to be able to use it in a future edition.
How Virtual Masterclasses work:
- You send in a video of yourself performing a piece, movement of a piece, or even a passage from a piece.
- Once we have 2-3 submissions, I will run a live stream specifically for you, giving you tailor-made advice for your own playing!
It's like if we were doing an online lesson - except others get to see it and hopefully also benefit from the advice I'm giving you. Here is an example!
It's basically an exact replica of an in-person masterclass: you play for a teacher (in this case through a recording), and they work with you while others watch.
Why?
- Have you been watching the live streams and wishing you could ask me a question relating to your playing specifically? Now is your chance!
- Share your music with others and grow by watching them, too.
- It's basically a free online lesson for you!
What must you know?
- It can be something you recorded specifically for this, or a preexisting recording you already have.
- All levels are welcome! My advice will be tailored to your specific level, and in the past, we've worked with everything from beginners to full-on concert players.
- You must be fine with other people watching the video and your performance, as it will be embedded into the live stream itself. I will start and stop it as if we were doing an actual, in-person masterclass.
- I usually spend about 20-35 minutes per submission.
- While I will try to feature everyone, if we get a lot of submissions, your video might not be immediately featured. In that case however, we'll run more of these very soon!
Where and what to submit?
- Submit right here, by replying to this thread!
- You can either attach a video directly from your computer, or paste a link to a YouTube video
- (If you opt to use a YouTube video, it can be unlisted - no need to make it public!)
- Please also attach a link to the sheet music.
Previous virtual masterclasses!
( ↓ click the pictures)
Community Virtual Masterclass no. 1: (Dec 13th, 2020)
All right, this should be it! Looking forward to seeing everyone's submissions!
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Filippos Polykarpou Olli Gokce Turkmendag David Chidsey Thank you so much for your submissions! You will all be featured in our upcoming virtual masterclass, on January 31st! An official announcement thread will follow soon, but the date is set. Looking forward to this a lot!
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Mircea I am very excited to hear that, I'm also looking forward to this event. See you soon, cheers!
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Thank you very much Mircea!! I'm looking forward for the next virtual masterclass and your advices and comments :) :)
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Hello @Mircea, hello everybody!
The Milonga seems to be very popular these days!
Here is my version, I know I am coming too late, but does not matter, it was funny and useful to recorder it. And is a pleasure to share it here.
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Mircea
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Dario Hi Dario! It's not too late - we'll simply feature your submission in the virtual masterclass after this one! This is what I like about this submission system - you can send in videos at any time, and they will be featured as soon as the next masterclass takes place.
Thanks a lot for your submission! Looking forward to watching it live!
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Hi, I found this score of Milonga with many ornaments, so if anybody wants it, here it is. I also tried to transcribe the handwriting, but it is not finished (no fingerings, etc..). For Freaks
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After the two fantastic master classes (the recommendation are most helpful, especially with the videos for ongoing reference) and Dario's addtional recording I have decided that the Milonga is a MUST to learn. So the score is now sitting on my music stand and I am starting the work - knowing it will take a lot of work for me. I am really exited to add this to my repertoire.
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Martha Kreipke Amazing, Martha!! So happy to hear!
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Mircea I will be starting to work on Milonga this week with my guitar coach. I have worked through measure 23. Thank you for facilitating such a variety of meaningful live (and then recorded) sessions.
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I plan to submit a piece and I hope that I can record within the next couple of days... (for this masterclass again and maybe for Rene's masterclass again, too; not to forget the Sor op. 35 challenge
There is so much going on here on tonebase... with really great stuff, such as Martin's recording course etc. And besides the live stuff there are so many interesting videos... 
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Robert Dear Robert, yes - you are right. There is so much going on on Tonebase ... but practice time is always too short and the family needs time too.... maybe a lottery-win should help...no more daily work and much more time for playing guitar
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Mircea Dear Mircea,
here is my recording of Agustin Barrios - Julia Floria.
This is crazy, there are thousands of recordings of this piece available. Many recordings, I think, are too slow in performance, or "to straight" ... this is my attempt to play it not too much relaxed.
I tried to get the melodie lively and louder than the accompaniment.
It would be nice if you could help me in an upcoming Masterclass to optimize my interpretation of this lovely piece
Best Regards
Ollihttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNbMyVSswow&feature=youtu.be
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Olli Thank you for this, Olli!
Looking forward to taking an in-depth look at this - I love Julia Florida! And I'm especially excited since I was so impressed with your latest submission. 
One more submission for this virtual masterclass to go! As soon as someone submits one more video, I will program a new edition
Quick update: I moved your video from the latest masterclass thread to here, so that it may "live" in the main submissions thread. I might make a new submissions thread since this one is getting a bit big, but until the next masterclass, we'll keep this going just to have all the videos in one place.
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Mircea Hello Mircea, thank you for your praise
. (Listening on Mobilephone the video-sound was much too boomy, so I decided to equalize the audio https://youtu.be/pdfZ8e3-M4I
and upload again - now there is a new Link to the video)
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Olli Thanks for that - and I love this piece (and other pieces by the genius Barrios), and all the different ways of playing and interpreting it. I look forward to participating in that masterclass - either by listening/watching, or even active with an own submission, depending on my workload and the opportunity of recording at the weekend. However, if I will be too late for this masterclass I will be more or less automatically in time for the next one.
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Olli I think you played very well. I've been practising this piece for almost two months, but still far away from that level. Congrats! Don't overcook your guitars in the furnace by the way.
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Gokce Turkmendag hello Gokce, thank you very much - I play this piece for years.....what do you mean with "overcooking" ? Best Regards
Olli
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Olli beautiful. You managed to give a personal interpretation to this piece , very convincing. Great tone and timing is really good....
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Olli oh it was just a joke
I see your guitars hung behind you, looked like a furnace at first. Looks beautiful by the way. -
joosje thank you
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Gokce Turkmendag
that was once a bookshelf - now its a guitarshelf with led-light illumination -
Olli This is great! Thank you so much for submitting this - I've updated the video and I will be featuring it in the upcoming masterclass this Thursday!
looking forward to this a lot - hope to see you there!
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Hello Mircea , hello everyone!
I tried to play Cavatina today. This time I brushed my hair and used a proper microphone and a video camera. The ending is not good, but better than the other 80 recordings I made today (a little exaggerating) which made me very exhausted. I always get nervous when approaching the ending while recording, and often make mistakes
Best regards,
Gokce
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Gokce Turkmendag Hi Gokce, well done, and I planned/plan to record that, too. One of my favourite pieces, a very lovely one, wonderful.
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Gokce Turkmendag very beautiful - I tried this piece also, a long long time ago and failed - never tried again. Your interpretation sounds very fine to my ears - thank you !
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