WEEK 1: Vamos, Compañeros 
Welcome to the Main Thread for the first week of our musical Journey to Spain!! This is the place to share submissions of the first week! 
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- Things you found easy:
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↓ HAPPY PRACTICING, HAPPY SHARING ↓
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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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Martin Thanks, Martin. As you know, I’ve been working on that skill for a while now. Slowly getting better and easier.
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Eric Phillips Hi Eric here's a link to details of a Segovia album with them on https://www.discogs.com/release/9990536-Andr%C3%A9s-Segovia-Sor-Giuliani-Tarrega-Aguado-Coste-The-Segovia-Collection-Vol-7-Guitar-Etudes you can also find them on Youtube.
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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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Emma wonderful, it's amazing how some pieces unlock themselves after some time and personal development!
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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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Martin beautiful interpretation. Video is very informative. Good point about the intonation. I also very much like your rubato. And nice background colors….
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joosje Thank you!! It's not as structured as I would have liked it, but well ... it's Sunday
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Martin surely not as rainy as here in Belgium??
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joosje
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Martin sound and lights are awesome!
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Martin beautiful Martin, your playing shows how much you like the piece! I think you'll get to that interpretation you're looking for
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Martin It's always great to hear what goes on in your mind as you work through a piece of music!
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Martin Sounds great so far! Yes, in the "B" section your advice to me was lift off the 2nd finger, which helped me in that passage/
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Martin I really enjoy watching your progress videos. That are very informative on how to approach the pieces. You have great tone and expressiveness in what you have played so far. Looking forward to see the rest of it.
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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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Daniel Beltrán brilliant, Daniel. Great control. It’s not so simple to get these chords nicely legato. Your doing a great job here. I started studying this piece as well. Earlier I didn’t quite know how to get the danza with this right hand motif i ip i really steady and fluent. I’m working on it now. Hopefully recording will follow. Looking forward hearing to your rendition of the danza. Thank you for submitting the cancion. Really beautiful! (Snif)
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joosje Thank you Joosje
yes, that right hand pattern in the Danza has its difficulty. For me the main hard thing about it is not to have my right hand fingers jumping all around every string and in tempo without mentioning the musical aspects 
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Daniel Beltrán Really beautiful, Daniel! Great choice. I assume you've watched Rene Izquierdo's lesson on this.
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Daniel Beltrán That was beautiful. Nearing the Cancion and Danza together would spectacular. Great job.
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Eric Phillips thanks, Eric! yes, I saw his lesson on this piece, it's great. I only change some fingerings on the Danza that René uses which I find a bit more difficult
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Jack Stewart Thanks Jack. I'll be posting an attemp of both pieces at the same time.
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So hello everyone. As promised here's the Danza, that still needs more practice
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Daniel Beltrán It's sounding really good, Daniel! It has that steady, driving rhythm that this piece needs. Great rasgueados!
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Daniel Beltrán Nicely done. You definitely can a feel for and flavor of Granada in your performance of this piece, the city where Antonio Ruiz-Pipo is from.
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Daniel Beltrán Nicely done Daniel. I've always liked that piece, though I haven't listened to it for quite a while. Thanks.
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