Welcome to tonebase!
Hey everyone - this is Igor from tonebase 🙂!
It's such a pleasure to welcome you as one of the founding members of the tonebase community. Please introduce yourself in a post below with the following format:
- Where are you from and what's your favorite food from there? ;)
- What are you currently working on?
- What are you hoping to get out of this community?
I'll go first:
- While it's hard to pinpoint where exactly I'm from, lol, I just go with Bavaria Germany, and as favorite food, I'd choose Beer (surprise, surprise - closely followed by "Schweinshaxe" - Bavarian Pork-knuckle, which is quite delicious, but sooo heavy that it feels weird calling it favorite food)
- Trying to keep my Aranjuez in the fingers, even though certainly don't have that much time to practice as during college days...
- I hope we can facilitate authentic and interesting discussions around playing, learning, teaching, performing the guitar as well as all adjacent topics like concert prep, professional development, auditioning etc...
Now over to you (after some participation from our tonebase team members!)
390 replies
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I am a 74 year old retired architect now living in amazing Southern Utah. I've been playing off and on for over 50 years but only for my own entertainment. I have no aspirations of becoming the best guitar player in town, entertaining friends and family, or having a impressive repertoire. I typically practice only an hour or so a day on pieces I've played for years. I would like to master a couple of songs one being Traumerei by Shumann played best by Andres Segovia. Una Americana by Magin Alegre is also of intrest to me. My favorite composer has to be Fernando Sor because he wrote so many simple yet beautiful short songs and also Julian Arcas. I am most impressed by the music of Carles Trepat from Spain. I am self taught so I have a lot of questions and issues that need to be resolved. For example, how is a pedal note best handled as far as accent and volume. Although there is are tons of information I would like to know here at tonebase, I'm not sure it will be what I am looking for. AI has no soul so how can an app really understand what I want to accomplish even with the most explicit instructions. I'll try it for a while and see if get the enough value for the price according to my guitar needs, wants, and desires and perhaps I'll get to know some like-minded guitar players.
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Hello. Sitting on my back porch. Just finished an hour and a half practicing right hand planting and slow arpeggios. Worked on slowly Lagrima and Adelina. I look forward to getting more involved in the site. I’m fairly new a couple of weeks. I have been on other sites over the past two years and discovered tone base. I really really like it. I’m retired and have more time to play.
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From Santa Rosa Ca
favorite food…fish and chips from Fishatarian in Bodega
I’m just starting classical guitar. Been playing acoustic/electric then Bass. Now time for the big league.
just started scales with my guitar teacher
struggling with choice of guitar. Have a beautiful sounding Alhambra that’s tough to reach with small hands used to smaller necks. Resisting crossover as I love the sound of classical guitars made in Spain
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Hi
Vegas these days
I am trying to comeback to guitar at ~15 year break(injury). So I spent half the day setting up new(used) guitar with lower action and strings. Now I have to figure out where to start. I had a quick look around the site and plan to just start at level one, and see how quick/slow my old chops come back.
It would be cool to find a guitar path to follow, and connect with some new guitar friends. -
Hello, I'm happy to join the learning process together with each of you. My background is violin study and Chamber music of Suzuki method classical at Book 6 level, as this will be my main devotion direction. I've restrung my guitar and plan on being at the far end of Beginner and beginning an Intermediate Beginner level at the 7 month point, with daily practice. Yup, I will fit it in along with my French study! As a trial and continuing as a member, the content displayed really rocks with this program and the tremendously skilled teachers and lessons. I appreciate ya'll.
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Hello everyone,
My name is Mario, I live in Switzerland.
I really enjoy Indian and Italian food. My wife is an excellent cook, that is a great blessing for me. At least I can make a really tasty dal myself.
I have been a hobby guitarist for many years. I used to do singer-songwriter stuff, but then I realised that my voice was no longer as good as it used to be and I thought to myself, I don’t want to end up like an old rock star:)) So I switched to classical guitar.
I mainly play for myself, playing guitar brings me a lot of joy and fulfilment. I hope to get a great deal of inspiration from this platform. What I’ve seen from Tone Base so far really excites me!
There are different areas where I would love to improve – for example playing more cleanly and getting better rhythmically (tricky rhythms are not exactly my strength), but there is also room for improvement when it comes to memorising pieces. These are the areas I‘d like to work on.
I would like to play in front of others again, but I am getting very nervous and unsettled in a live situation. Because I can’t concentrate very well in front of others, it’s hard for me to give my best performance, and now I’d really like to change that.
At the moment I am learning Cancion de Cuna by Leo Brouwer and the Prelude of the Cello Suite 1 BWV 1007
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Hi,
I am Gerald from Germany. I am Living close to Trier.
My Favorite foods are fish, Pizza and everything based on potatoes.
I am a Hobby guitarist since 40 years and restarted having lessons some 10 years ago. Now - after retirement- I have more time for the guitar and I believe that Tonebase may be a good Supplement to the lessons in Person.
Currently I am working on Bach Cello suites 1 and 2 and some Albeniz (e.g. Granada). And some rehearsal with a singer on Songs from Sor.
I feel I should improve the Balance of my right hand. Tremolo is not fast enough and uneven.
I would also love to play with less tension in the hands and body in general. A more relaxed feeling while playing.
Gerald