Week 3: Fasten your Seatbelts!
Welcome to the Main Thread for the third week of the "Guitar Music of the World" practice challenge!
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Okay, now for the real reason I brought you all here!
Seriously, though, this was my original intention for this challenge - to play some original pieces by my college professor/teacher/maestro James (Jim) McGuire - an Irishman living in Minnesota (USA). He published a set of 25 Miniatures - aptly named Twenty Five Miniatures - in 2007.
This is the first one - simply named 1. It is marked Lento. The fastest my metronome lets me go at "lento" is 45 bpm, which is fine by me for this piece, as there are some very intricate harmonies and chord changes I've never experienced before!
There is one little obvious clam at the end, but I had played it correctly the first two times, so it's all good for a first take. This one needs some polishing - especially in mm 10-12. Holy cow!
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For this week's challenge, I am posting another piece by Abel Carlevaro, taking me back to Montevideo in the early 1980s when this piece was written. The following post is the "Introduccion" from a larger piece entitled, "Introduccion y Capricho." My hope is to have the entire piece polished up by the end of April and will post it to the Carlevaro Discussion Group Forum.