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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Thought I'd post an update on how I'm coming along with Sons de Carrilhões by Brazilian guitarist/composer João Pernambuco. If you thought my last piece was filled with mistakes - you ain't seen nothing yet!
Seriously, though, I am really enjoying this piece. My last submission of this piece had just the A section. This one has both A and B, though I didn't take the repeats of the sections for time's sake (I figured you get the point), only did the D.S.
There's just a couple spots that I need to iron out the fingering still. Then, get the tempo up and we'll be "cooking with gas" as they say.
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Steve Pederson That’s great, Steve! You’ve got all the finger motions down really well.
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Eric Phillips Thanks Eric! I think just some right-hand fingering is what's kind of tripping me up a bit. Have you ever tried this piece?
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Steve Pederson I have. I never got it to a performance level, but I think I worked on it for a few days.
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Steve Pederson Nice, Steve. Love how this is coming together. I've travelling sans guitar for about a week and I'm really missing it especially seeing all the posts here.
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Steve Pederson Well done Steve. Love this piece!
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Steve Price Thanks Steve! Glad you can check in, though you're sans guitar.
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Ron Thanks Ron!
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Steve Pederson This is coming along Nicely Steve. It's a great piece, look forward to seeing your progress
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Steve Pederson This is coming along very nicely Steve! Keep going. It will sound fantastic when your done!
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Steve Pederson Great! A piece by a compatriot! With a gran finale, too! Bravo, Steve, is sounding great and - for me - you got the 'duende'!
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Derek Thanks Derek!
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Barney Thanks Barney! That's the plan.
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Moyses Lopes Thanks Moyses!
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Steve Pederson Thatsvcoming along really nicely, Steve. Stephanie Jones has a lesson on this on Tonebase that’s a lot of fun. It gave me some new ideas and tweaks.
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I must have slept through week 2! (I wish......)Here's my attempt at an 'Air' by John Dowland based on the medieval song 'As I went to Walsingham'. Walsingham is the site of a Christian Shrine in Norfolk (England). Again audio only - it's safer that way :-)
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Derek That's great, Derek. I wasn't familiar with that one. I love how some of Dowland's chords and phrases are pleasantly surprising since he was writing before "the rules" of Western music were more established.
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Derek Nice, Derek! Always good to hear some Dowland.
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Derek Well played Derek, not a piece I'm familiar with but I really like it.
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Steve Price thanks Steve
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Eric Phillips Thanks Eric
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Ron Thanks Ron
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Derek I love Dowland's music, but not familiar with this one. I enjoyed listening to your performance. Thanks for sharing it with us Derek!
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Derek Very nice Derek. I'm learning all kinds of history and geography from this one! Thanks for posting. Sounds like some merry chaps sitting around a fire in a pub at Christmas time!
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Derek Dowland is a great composer, and one of my favorites! I loved your performance, it's a challenging piece, with many voices to work with. Thanks for sharing!
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