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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Luys de Narvaez - Cancion del Emperador
This might be the most well-known piece of the 16th century vihuela music. Again, I played it on guitar and lute. The lute version is not particularly good, but you do get to see my dog in it (which is always a bonus).
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Gaspar Sanz - Pavana
I'm moving on now to some Spanish baroque music. This short Pavana comes from his book Instrucción de música sobre la guitarra española, published in the beautiful city of Zaragoza in 1674. I played through it twice, and tried to give it some ornamentation the second time through. This is not something that comes naturally to me, but I like a few of the things I did. My biggest problem when improvising ornamentation is that I often lose the beat.
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Very good, renaissance music is so so beautiful... thank you Eric
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OK, here is Torija by Federico Moreno-Torroba. Some of the stretches were difficult, but I used Manny's excellent advice and it helped in several places. Still working on this which has a ways to go
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Here my first video. I played through without repeats.
Main challenges are: fingering 3rd bar of the second section, i played as per score and I didn’t find a better way, but the 4 jumping from high A to High D to Middle G is not nice. I saw some people playing High F iso of high A, i find it already an improvement. Second challenge is moving the barre from seventh to fifth position at bar 6 of second part. Any suggestions welcome. For the rest long barre’ is tough. Thanks Martin and Eric for suggesting Martin barre’ video, i found particularly helpful thinking about 7th string as well as thumb positioning and lever rather than pushing. I will in parallel train on Brower estudio 4. Attached the score I am using.