Week 2: Pack your Bags!
Welcome to the Main Thread for the second week of the "Guitar Music of the World" practice challenge!
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Here is my attempt on Where Have All the Flowers Gone? an American folk song originally written by American singer-songwriter Pete Seeger. The arrangement is by John Duarte from the Joan Baez Suite Opus 144. I love how he uses dissonant harmonies to convey the somber mood of the song. He also inserted "Taps", the bugle call used at American military funerals, at the end of the piece.
I started this piece yesterday, and the recording is from Measure 1-39.
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Down by the Salley Gardens -
This will probably be my last recording of this piece. I don't know if I will get it any better for this challenge. I just can't seem to get through the entire piece without screwing something up!
I like this performance best of all the countless takes I've done, though I did mess up something at the very end. Fortunately it's hardly noticeable. What IS noticeable, which I'm having a difficult time controlling, is some of the string squeaking. A lot of the voicing takes place on the lower strings, which is where the squeaking is happening.
You'll notice I'm using a capo at the second fret. This is mainly because I have some string buzz at the second fret on the fifth string. The capo makes it a bit easier to play and takes care of that buzz.
Enjoy!