Welcome to tonebase!
Hey everyone - this is Igor from tonebase 
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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!)
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Hello everyone! My name is Trevor, and I'm part of the content team for both piano and guitar at tonebase!
- I'm from North Carolina, and my favorite food is fried - no matter how healthy, if it fits in the frier, it's delicious (a southern tradition).
- I'm a composer, but way before going off to music school years ago, I was a 'serious' guitarist. My first lessons ever where in classical guitar! Next think you know, I'm getting a degree in bassoon and composition. What? I'm not sure either.
- Full circle: I'm currently scoring a feature length documentary and am exclusively using electric guitar and nature recordings to make it. Felt good to pull the ole ax out of the case. Thanks to tonebase for getting me back into shape! (Particularly after all that fried food...)
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Hey everyone - This is Elias, Really excited to be a part of this community and to get to know other members.
Answers:
- Answer is Complicated, for simplicity, I am from New Jersey currently based in Secaucus. I really do not have a fav food. it is like asking what is your favorate piece of music or artist.
- Currently I broke my A nail so I re-visited Apoyando Technique and scale runs with I-M. it was really helpful to focus on that without the ability to use A. I am working on Granada by Albeniz. and Seranata Espanola by Malats
- Really excited to get to know all the awesome Tonebase members better and to build something really useful for the Guitar community.
Cheers!
Elias -
Hello everyone, this is Raj from the Boston area, so of course I like fish and chips and clam chowder, though I am mostly vegetarian and my favorite food is anything from Clover, a popular vegetarian chain here in the Boston area.
I have been working my way through Brouwer's 20 Etude Simples for the past couple of years, currently learning #18, as well as Tarrega's Adelita and Lagrima, although now that I've watched a few lessons on Tonebase I will have to backtrack and fix a few things ("damping the bass note," what's that about?). I actually took guitar lessons for four years after college in the 80's, then gave it up for 20 years and switched to tabla (Indian drums). But a few years ago, I decided to try it again as an empty-nester and have now completely switched over to guitar. A while ago I also started attending monthly open mics in my town to force myself to get comfortable with public performance, something I had always avoided.
I look forward to maturing my technique to really achieve higher performance quality, so I can share my passion for guitar with friends and family.
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Rajesh Puranik Thanks so much for joining this community! I'm sure you're not the only "empty-nester" who re-discovered his love for Classical Guitar here in the community! :) Tabla sounds fascinating too, I hope you still have some time to practice these... It reminds of this video
of Jeremy Jouve performing Matthias Duplessy's Cavalcade with 2 Guitars and a tablas player and it sounds incredible! Have you heard of it?
Also these videos on Adelita and this course on Lagrima (don't take the 7 days too serious ;) ) might be interesting for you!
All best and greetings to Boston! -
igor Wow, thanks for sharing that video. I had not seen it. I still teach tabla locally, but honestly, it gets harder and harder to sit cross-legged, so I end up practicing less.
And yes, I am working with both those pieces on Tonebase. In fact, possibly Eduardo's masterclass on Adelita alone convinced me to subscribe past the free trial period. It was a true revelation to me, the way he brought to light the nuances of each bar and phrase and the techniques involved. The fingering is quite different from what is indicated in my book, which is also useful in showing that there are options for the musician to consider.
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Rajesh Puranik Awesome - this is great to hear! :)
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Hey everyone! It's so good to be here with all of you!
I've been looking forward to this so much! This is Mircea from tonebase!
(In case you've ever wondered, Mircea is pronounced like "MEER-cha" - not that I would mind if you said it differently, haha)
- I am from Bucharest, Romania, but I moved to Düsseldorf, Germany, when I was 17, so my entire adult life has been spent outside my home country! I spent so long in Germany though that they gave me German citizenship -> now I can call myself both Romanian and German!
- Favorite food... oooh so hard to say! In general I would say nothing beats a good plate of sarmale (sour cabbage rolls with meat, tomatoes, rice, and some other stuff) next to some sour cream and mamaliga, but since it's summer, I've been DYING for some mici! Check out the picture! They are the grilled stuff in the top left and bottom right corner.
- Music-wise? I'm making my own version of the Five Bagatelles by William Walton based on composer manuscripts (think "what would have happened if Walton were to have worked with me instead of Bream?") and the Capricho no. 18 by Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (same idea).
- Other-work-wise, I am scheduling some dope live streams for our upcoming tonebase LIVE workshops and interviews!
Check some of them out here: https://app.tonebase.co/guitar/live ( many more to come!)
- Other-work-wise, I am scheduling some dope live streams for our upcoming tonebase LIVE workshops and interviews!
- Ohh I'm hoping to get to know all the awesome people that have been watching our streams, voting in polls, etc. - BUT ALSO, much more importantly: those who haven't yet! Can't wait to get to know some more of you guys and talk about everything guitar-related under the sun!
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Mircea Oh dude.... this looks sooo good right now.... WANT!
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igor I know right! I am dying for some, too! Definitely the first thing I'm having once I make it back to Europe!!
- I am from Bucharest, Romania, but I moved to Düsseldorf, Germany, when I was 17, so my entire adult life has been spent outside my home country! I spent so long in Germany though that they gave me German citizenship -> now I can call myself both Romanian and German!
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Hi everyone.
I,m Igor Intxausti, from Donostia (Basque Country). Appart from black chocolate (99% cacao) wich is, in fact, an addiction, my favorite food is a big beef steak. In the Basque country we call it as in spanish: chuleta. About 800gr seems to be the perfect size so it keeps raw inside, but not cold. See foto. (Not trying to compete with Mircea.)
I´ve been teaching guitar for the last 30 years. Finished my studies at the conservatory 22 years ago. I never felt I as a classical guitarist, though. After been studying and performing baroque and renaissance music for some years (vihuela, baroque guitar and tiorba) I,m now trying to become a good classical guitar player/teacher. My technique was never very good and that´s what I´ve been working on in the last year.
I,m shure at Tonebase we all can learn a lot from each other. In fact, this is the first Forum I,ve been in.
HAVE A GOOD TIME.
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Igor First of all - great name! :) Second of all - what steaks.... <3
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Hello everyone! I was born and raised in Southern California but now living in Bulgaria by way of The Netherlands and India. I’m a globetrotter. I really miss Indian food from India and Mexican food from California. I’m a vegetarian and haven’t found anything I really like yet in Bulgaria but the yogurt and tomatoes are amazing.
I’m currently working on improving my technique and enjoying Mircea’s right hand workshop. I’m working on a variety of repertoire and getting ready to try and tackle Asturias again. My practice was derailed last year after surgery on my left hand middle finger - it was an accident that resulted in trigger finger :(
I’m looking forward to meeting everyone in the community as we all share tips about our beloved instrument, the classical guitar.
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Debbie Welcome! As your tackling Asturias again, I hope you'll like the tutorial on that piece which Ana Vidovic recorded for us just recently! :) Have you found anything relevant or useful on tonebase so far, or can I help pointing you in the right direction? :)
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igor I find so many things helpful. I love the teaching from Thomas Viloteau and the live workshops and interviews are fantastic. Keep them coming please! I’m excited to hear there is a tutorial on Asturias by Ana. Funny thing is I’ve slowed down videos of her playing it on YouTube to study her fingering. I think the way she plays it sounds great without that plunky open g string in the triplet section, haha! I’m going to go watch that tutorial right now! And more Ana please! She’s my favorite
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igor wait! Were you teasing? There is nothing by Ana!
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Debbie
Debbie said:
Funny thing is I’ve slowed down videos of her playing it on YouTube to study her fingering.We all did that, haha... that's the reason we eventually had to come up with something like tonebase, to find a better way! :)
Debbie said:
Were you teasing? There is nothing by Ana!Haha, of course, not, I should've said that while we recorded with Ana last week, it usually takes 3-4 weeks until the videos are edited and added to the site! As proof I added some behind the scenes pictures!
So hang in there, until they're being released! :)
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Hi everyone,
My name is Bogac and I am from Turkey, living in the UK and Turkey (currently because of COVID). I love pub food and a good lager or beer is perfect as a company.
Currently I am working on a new business venture so not working actively on the guitar. Just practising with exercises from tonebase.
This community is critical for our and and future generation guitarists' satisfaction and fulfilment. Setting up a safe place for people to share our experience with guitar without any judgement and resentment and also creating this space for learning in the most effective way possible is the gift tonebase will give.
Love you all.
Bogac
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Bogac Thank you so much for sharing your thoughts and hopes around the community! Let me know about your business venture you're working on, super curious to hear! :)
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Hi fellow guitarists,
I am Tarra.
I was born in New Zealand and brought up in North Carolina (Winston-Salem area) to age 12, NZ to age 22, moved to NYC for 15 years, then here to Fort Lauderdale FL....
I am afraid my favorite food and way of cooking is to stick various versions of Amy's Frozen Vegetarian Dinners into my microwave, set time and press "go". Yum yum... who has time to cook????
I am currently working on a 21st Century Guitar solo program.... This consists of my pieces, several each from friends of mine, some of them quite well known, and a couple of better known composers too. There may even be room for more if anyone has something they want to see played by someone else.
I started collecting music for and working on this concert last year, but got horribly derailed during the lockdown, as teaching duties began to include figuring out how to edit video for student concerts, and various other tech.... which all turned out to be extremely time consuming.
So now, as people start seeing, and even playing with other live humans again, carefully and all, I am practicing again. This community is helpful. Other people's warm up routines are jump starting me nicely, and of course get passed on to all of my students.... It's a great domino effect.
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Tarra Guerra So great to have you! It's always a pleasure to welcome teachers that are considering sharing some of our contents with their students! :) thanks!
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to Sean:
you are doing cello/guitar stuff - there is some gorgeous music by Erik Marchelie for viola and guitar which would not be hard to transpose - I did that and the Schubert Arpeggione last year with a violist friend and really liked it. We had to cancel our last three concerts when the lockdown happened, so I haven't posted any video... He also wrote a really nice piano/guitar piece for my other duo, Synergies
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To Chris,
The only way I have found to get enough practice done to at least stay at performing level and maybe even improve is to not sleep enough..... there should be a better way, but I have never found it.... given the other things that are important (a marriage, a strong commitment to teaching well, staying fit, having at least a few friends).
Though the lockdown derailed me, before that it had been about 6 years of never missing a day of practice (both guitar and violin).... now, I am fighting my way back to that.... getting my chops back, and experimenting with other ways of keeping fingernails than regular salon visits....
The time just has to come from somewhere....
My friend and teacher Ken Keaton, who died last year, used to say, plenty of sleep in the grave....
Tarra
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Tarra Guerra hey Tarra, how much daily practice hours would you say you need to remain at performance level? Or even improve?
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- If from means where I grew, then England, but I haven't lived there for 15 years, and for the past 8 years I've been based in Berlin. Food? I like whatever innit.
- I'm currently working on a few compositions for guitar, trying to compose them and learn to play them, also some arrangements of traditional songs in a style more suited to concert performance, and I've also been trying to learn Regondi's "Nocturne - Reverie" (after discovering it properly in Stephanie Jones' lesson!)
- What am I hoping to get out of this community? I'd like to engage in all many of discussions about the guitar and composing for it, both technical and as deep, meaningful and insightful as music can be, but also some tips here and there for simple things too we all encounter.
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Roni Glaser hiya
i think 3 hours of real practice (not just playing) per day really... when I was already in great shape I could maybe maintain with 2.5... but that wouldn’t include any new pieces...
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