WEEK 1: Vamos, Compañeros 💃
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Dionisio Aguado - Lesson 26
I thought I'd start off the classical era of guitar with some Aguado. Sor is the natural choice, but I'll get to him later. This is from the first part of Aguado's method, in which are found 27 "lessons". Many of them seem like more than lessons to me, and are very lovely pieces in their own right. This one is offered by Aguado as an lesson in slurs (ligados). I find it also to be a good lesson in shifting and bass note damping.
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I am preparing Cadiz by Albeniz. I am not ready yet for a recording, maybe next week I can record a part of it. I tried this piece a couple of years ago and it was too big for me, now it is coming much easier and it makes me very happy.
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There is so much beautiful stuff happening in this thread, it's such a joy to browse all these different submissions and facets of the music of Spain!
I finally decided to give Capricho Arabé go! It's one of those pieces that we've heard so many times (and I've taught it so many times as well), but I want to really make it mine and do a proper recording of that piece!
Btw., Barney , what did I tell you about the B-Section, I don't remember only that it worked quite well, haha!
And how do you like the new lights in my bedroom 🛌
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Hello everybody! Hope everyone's okay. So this week I've been practicing Canción y Danza nr. 1 by Antonio Ruiz-Pipó, which I learned almost a year and a half ago but didn't keep practicing it so I've been rembering and practicing it, mostly the Danza which used to give problems back then and and it was still giving me a hard work this week but now it's working better 👍 I'm uploading a video of the Canción, which I don´t find so difficult, with exception of landing some chord changes, but the rest is okay. I'll practice a little more the Danza and I'll post a video of it during the night 💪 and by the way, yes, I catched a could 😅.
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So hello everyone. As promised here's the Danza, that still needs more practice 🤷♂️ I find it quite challenging currently, the most difficult things for me are the right hand pattern and the scales. I still need to find the control of the piece. And perhaps something a tad easy could be the left hand.