WEEK 2: Dóbry den’ (Good Day)!
Welcome to the Main Thread for the first week of the Nikita Koshkin challenge! This is the place for the Week 2 Submissions!
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If you want to describe your process (optional), feel free to use the following template.
- Things you found easy:
- Things you found difficult:
- (Optional): a video of you performing it!
- (Optional:) questions
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This one is for Eric, to share what I learned from Marina: (but didn’t practice enough)
My first try of last page of #9. The part with the harmonics., (mm20-23). I tried to do as Marina suggested. While playing the open strings (5) and (4), your RHand is already moving towards fret XII and fingers i and p are placed almost horizontally, so you can damp the string with i in XII and pluck the string with p at about 1 inch from i. Am I correct, Martin?
the following line with harmonics upper voice (24-27) is also not quite as easy as it looks. I started playing the voices separately until both were secure, but together it’s still tricky…
I’ll have to give it some more time….
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Barney Thanks, Barney, but I respectfully disagree. Yours sounds much better! But you are inspiring me to keep working at it. I want to play it like you!
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joosje Always an inspiration to see you and other advanced guitarists like Eric Phillips and Barney work on something as challenging (and beautiful!) as study 9.
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Study 4
I found the recurring eight-sixteen motif at the top of the score challenging to play evenly
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david robinson That was excellent, David! It had a really great feel to it. At times, the rhythm had an almost "country hoe down" feel, which was really cool! I think your sixteenth notes sound fine - certainly better than mine on this study. Great work!
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david robinson wow great take on this one, sounds clean and well paced and articulated!
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Eric Phillips Thanks for your comments! I agree, some of it does feel country.
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Blaise Laflamme Thanks!
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david robinson what great performance, David. Those sixteenth notes are very clear and sounds even and crisp. At this tempo it’s such a nice piece.
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david robinson Nice job on this David. Great to hear your clear articulations expressed so beautifully. Thanks for submitting this!
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david robinson Brilliant! Nice brisk tempo. I've been working on this one (very tough for me), so nice to see it played so well.
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joosje Thank you!
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Barney Thanks Barney!
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david robinson wonderful interpretation, clean and fast!
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Last week was not that great for practice, life's challenging sometimes, so to continue after the first three, here's #4... far from perfect, sorry for a few missing notes, the most challenging part was definitely the speed. It still needs love, but others studies are looking for more love too
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Blaise Laflamme Sounds great; nice transparent recording too.
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david robinson thanks David!
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Blaise Laflamme That was incredible, Blaise! Please don’t tell Marina, but I think I like your version more than hers! Great dynamics, well placed rubato, beautiful colors, and spectacular sound as always. Well done!
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Eric Phillips haha... thank you Eric! That's the beauty of playing music, we all have our own way of expressing ideas, I'm happy liked my humble version
... but don't forget you were the 1st to post a version of this study even before the contest has started!!! -
Blaise Laflamme I may not be the best, but I’m the fastest!
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Eric Phillips you are certainly an eager and passionate learner, I admire your dedication!
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Blaise Laflamme wonderful recording, Blaise, you made it sound more lyrical, I hadn’t heard it like that before. Great.
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joosje thank you Joosje, «That's the way, uh-huh, uh-huh
I like it, uh-huh, uh-huh»
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Blaise Laflamme It's good to see that I'm not the only goofy one in this group!
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Eric Phillips you showed us the way!
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Blaise Laflamme This looks like concert stage performance quality! Great musically, technically, and sound wise. Great job Man!!
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