Week 1: Play Whatever You Love ☀️🎸
Summer's here. Longer evenings, slower days, and hopefully a little more time with the guitar in your hands.
This one's wide open. No set piece, no required technique, no weekly checklist. Just this: spend some of your summer making music you love, and share it with us.
That could be:
- A piece you've been chipping away at all year and want to finally get on tape
- Something brand new you're picking up just for fun
- A tune that sounds like summer to you, bright, warm, nostalgic, whatever that means for you
Post whenever you've got something to show: a video, an audio clip, or even just a note about what you're working on and how it's going. Cheer each other on. That's the whole thing. Open to all levels.
Dates: August 1 to August 28
How to participate
- Pick something you love, any piece, any style, any level
- Share your goal, tell us what you're taking on this summer
- Post your progress, clips, audio, or just an update as the weeks go
- Engage, cheer on your fellow players and swap encouragement
We'll close things out with a Watch Party featuring your recorded submissions, so make sure your final performance video is posted by the end of the run. 🎥
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Posted last week in my practice journal... more to come!
«Nothing beats a lovely “Fingerpicking” to start the summer holidays… Except perhaps having a good time!»
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Canción Leonesa by Rogelio Villar (arr. Miguel Llobet)
This is part of Llobet’s famous Canciónes Populares Catalanas. But after researching it a bit, I found out that this one is not a popular Catalan song at all. Instead, it is one of twenty-five pieces for solo piano by Rogelio Vallar called Canciónes Leonesas, which means songs from the León region of Spain. This is the first one, which is a lullaby (Berceuse). Llobet’s arrangement does stray a bit from the original, especially at the end. To be honest, I think I like the ending he gave it more.
I have played this piece before, but I recently heard a performance of it from Carles Trepat on the Casa Sors YouTube channel, and I loved it so much that I wanted to play it again myself, using some of Trepat’s ideas. This video is the result.
So, now that this challenge is posted, I think I will try playing some more of Llobet’s Canciónes Populares Catalanas. My favorite is El Mestre, which I have never played since it seems rather difficult, but maybe I will try that next. We’ll see where it goes.