Week 2: Pack your Bags! 
Welcome to the Main Thread for the second week of the "Guitar Music of the World" practice challenge!
↓ Happy Sharing! ↓
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Hello, friends! As homework for this second week, I have finished the reading process and would like to share the result with you. Next week, I will try to memorize the piece and polish the phrasing. Recorded with AKGC411 in my kitchen, I mean, in my studio...
And now, time to listen to your contributions!-
Marilyn Blodget , Thank you!
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Steve Pederson we need to join my kitchen and your dinning room and make a super studio!
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Georgia is a bit on the rough side, but it's a complete take. Hopefully, I can make it more presentable. Scofield puts in some tasty voicings, but some of his phrases are going to take time to figure out.
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Steve Price That's so beautiful, Steve! You sound so relaxed. I love hearing all the jazzy playing from you, Jack Stewart , and Moyses Lopes . What a change of pace for this community!
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Steve Price That was great, Steve. I would hardly call that rough. This is one of this nest fingerstle versions of Georgia I have heard. Great job!
Btw, I just watched a YT of Uros Baric perform this version. He has filmed it straight with a full view the fingerboard if you want to refer to it for fingerings. Though I didn't notice anything missing in your playing.
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Eric Phillips Thanks, Eric. I really appreciate it. And I like the variety around here. I hear something new all the time and that always keeps it interesting.
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Jack Stewart Thanks, Jack. That really means a lot. I'll check out his version too. There are some tricky spots so it'd be nice to see how someone else handles them.
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Steve Price Very nice, Steve! Such 'jazz' arrangements of the old standards really work well on nylon strings. And I'm impressed that you've learned it the 'old-fashioned' way. Bravo!
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Steve Price Very nicely done. I really enjoyed listening to this post. Thank you for sharing.
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Steve Price I love it, it is so touching.
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Eric Phillips yesyesyes
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Steve Price Such a beautiful post, Steve! You really got the 'duende' of this song, your interpretation was great and touching. Thanks for sharing!
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Steve Price Lovely! What an interesting arrangement. We have a regular local guitar soirée, and our host is almost 100 years old. He no longer plays his guitar for us, but he plays a beautiful clear harmonica. He played Georgia on my Mind for us last month. One of our members is working up a duet to accompany him for our next meeting. A memorable tune!
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Steve Price "Tasty" is right! Wow, that piece is a smorgasbord of musical flavor! Nice!
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Steve Pederson Dale Needles David Krupka Stefanie Mosburger-Dalz Moyses Lopes Thanks for the feedback. I really enjoyed working on this one.
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I am still working on my cathedrale, just started part 3, but still working on part two, here my latest attempt, it has to be more exactla, I sometimes made notes too short....impatience?
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Stefanie Mosburger-Dalz Great, you're in a good way! Maybe you can try a more flexible pulse, not a rigid beat, to obtain a more cantabile melody. Good to hear you!
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Stefanie Mosburger-Dalz That is coming along wonderfully, Stefanie. I agree with Moyses, you have everything there, now you can focus on making it sing. This is a big project (I have never played it) but you are doing great. Looking forward to seeing your progress.
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Moyses Lopes thank you!
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Jack Stewart oh, you can imagine, how much work that was until now- I dont play the level as you all, I have to learn the basics while working on my peaces, it is a long way for me but I love it
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Stefanie Mosburger-Dalz Great work you've done so far on this, slow movement doesn't mean easy... and it's never easy with Barrios! I agree with both Jack and Moyses, once you're comfortable with note values your playing will benefit a lot from adding flexibility to the phrases.
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Stefanie Mosburger-Dalz Nice start Stephanie. Have you checked out Tal Hurwitz’s Tonebase course on La Catedral? I found it very helpful. It’s such a challenging piece, but I love it!
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Marilyn Blodget thank you for mentioning! I have wheekly sessions with Roman Viazowskij, and he wants me to play it exactly without ornament or any musically additions etc, we tried to find fingerings that fit for me. I avoided by purpose to look the tutorial, I will check it out next time- parallel I learn choro 1 and I saw Bruno playing- totally different to my playing of the second part, and it is the culture, it is the rhythmical background. So interesting!
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Blaise Laflamme yes, but first it has simply to come out;-) I keep on working on that
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Stefanie Mosburger-Dalz I understand. Keep up the good work!
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