WEEK THREE Updates: Main Thread - Where the magic triumphs!
Hellooo, everyone, and welcome to WEEK THREE - the final Main Thread for this challenge! 
Why is this thread necessary?
Because the Week 1 and Week 2 threads are now both officially monstrously long 
And navigating them can get tricky with the lack of multiple page display.
But Mircea - I hear you say - can we still post in the old thread?
Yes, of course! Feel free to reply to others in the old thread to your heart's content. Just make sure you post any new updates (whether text or video) in this thread instead.
"Oh no, I didn't see this thread, so I posted a new update in the old thread!"
No problem at all! Just tag me (@Mircea) and I'll move your post 
These admin powers I got here are actually pretty cool! It turns out I can move individual replies between threads.
Where are the Week 1 and Week 2 threads?
Find the Week 1 thread here! And Week 2 here!
Make sure you've read the rules before replying (<- click)
Download the music:
- Exercises 1 - 12 (← click)
- Exercises 13 - 24 (← click)
Please use the following format when commenting (feel free to copy & paste!):
- Etude you worked on:
- One thing you found easy:
- One thing you found difficult:
- (Optional): a video of you performing it!
Sample daily update:
- Etude you worked on: No. 1
- One thing you found easy: The polyphony between bass and treble flowed very naturally, I had an easy time playing each line like it belonged to its own voice.
- One thing you found difficult: I had a hard time creating enough variety throughout the repeated measures.
Feel free to make these updates as short or long as you wish!
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Ok I FINALLY got another recording done today. Thank you to this community for being so kind and supportive and to joosje for the motivation to keep trying and Blaise Laflamme for the technical support.
Number 24. Not too difficult to read although it's a longer piece (worthy of a concert program IMO) and there are a few tricky jazz finger stretches toward the end that my small pinky can't quite get to not buzz. I just recorded it with the iPhone but I did edit a little in iMovie which I hope improved the sound at least a little. It's uploading to YouTube now so will be live in a few minutes
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David Chidsey superb playing, thank you for submitting - this piece is really long too
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David Chidsey Bravo David. This is a wonderful etude, well played, and motivating to have a look at it and practice it. Thanks for submitting.
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Etudes I worked on. No 14, 8 and 12. All of them are fairly straightforward but need some work to get to a half decent standard. I was hoping to post a recording of 14 but I've spent yesterday and today grappling with my old laptop trying to do a last video for the recording workshop - I was going to use 14 for that but in the end used a different piece. Hopefully will be able to post something tomorrow.
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- Etude I worked on: #17
Oh, I like that piece! In the future, I should invest a bit more time for this one. - One thing I found easy: structure
- One thing I found difficult: Playing legato and having a good balance between melody and accompaniment. Having good, clear sound.
- YouTube Link: https://youtu.be/ijQXv-tg6kM
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Robert beautiful.
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Robert wow - well done
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Robert beautiful, congratulations!!!!
- Etude I worked on: #17
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- Etude you worked on: Fernando Sor Op.35 No.11
- One thing you found easy: nothing - the hardest piece since practicing piece No.01 ...
- One thing you found difficult: phrasing, timing, everything ...
Nevertheless, this piece is so charming, touches my soul, every single tone is worth to practice
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Olli man you make those chords look easy! I’m definitely laboring on some of them. Great rhythm too!
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Olli really nice.
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Olli Nice piece, and it seems that it is not the easiest one... I have not had a deeper look at it at until now, I wish I had more time during the days... Well played, Olli.
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Olli well played. Lots of work to play all those cords without mistakes! congratulations!!
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Etude you worked on: No. 22
ONE THING YOU FOUND EASY: the flowing legato nature of the piece.
One thing you found difficult: Trying not to mess up my right hand fingering (I'm left- handed).
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Vilio Celli bravo!!! really good recording!!! it is a beautiful piece...
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Emma thanks! I have to work on bringing out the melody more clearly.
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- Etude you worked on: No.20
- One thing you found easy: Right hand pattern worked well, although I did change the fingering in measures 8 & 32
- One thing you found difficult: I found a couple of the left hand stretches challenging in the context of keeping the melody legato
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- Etude you worked on: Fernando Sor Op.35 No.12
- One thing you found easy: looks harder than it really is
- One thing you found difficult: 6th string tuned to "F" is strange to me
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Olli Well done, Olli! I like that, and the coffee-coloured filter is very special. Feels like being a few decades back, almost in the era of Sor.
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Olli Man you are quickly becoming one of my favorite guitarists!
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David Chidsey
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Olli well done Ollie, so nicely flowing theme. Beautiful.
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Olli this one you nailed it. Calm, with no hurry, the music flows... beautiful. Thank you
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Mircea The titles of the weekly threads are so nice - I do like that.
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Robert Thank you Robert! Glad to hear
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- Etude I worked on: #22
I love this piece! However I have not played it for a very very long time. I am so happy that the challenge brought it back to me, and I even found my old score in an old collection of guitar scores that I played more than 4 decades ago in my childhood. The teacher always wrote the date of the first attempt on the score, and this shows that it was my 3rd year of guitar playing with a private teacher... It is a shame that I "forgot" this piece for such a long time while practicing and playing tons of other (nice) pieces - Life is definitely too short... Now the piece was kind of new with respect to fingering etc., but I realized that the muscle memory in the fingers was still there, at least a bit.
So here I present my "first new" approach.
This challenge is wonderful! - One thing I found easy: structure
- One thing I found difficult: Playing legato, smoothly, emphasizing the melody without forgetting the accompaniment. And as always: Having good, clear sound. And also almost always required and therefore sometimes a bit challenging: being creative and playing the repetition as an interesting part with some slight variation, for example different colour...
- YouTube Link: https://youtu.be/xpkQC6qcUjo
- Etude I worked on: #22
End of the Year Challenge: Finish Strong!
