WEEK 2: Conquering Carcassi's Etudes
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Study 21 Final(?) Update.
Here's the whole thing put together. I actually changed my mind and went back to a more conventional fingering for the piece. I'm fickle, I guess!
I still played several of the mordents poorly, and I was not able to execute my planned dynamics and rubato as well as I would have liked, but I'm probably going to move on to another study now.
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Carcassi #2. Just practicing a little dynamics on measures 9 & 10.
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Study 12.
I had never played this before, and it looked a little boring when I just saw it on paper. But after playing through it, I think the harmonic progression is really quite interesting and beautiful.
What was easy: It's pretty straightforward arpeggios. Phrasing and dynamics come rather naturally when you play it.
What was difficult:
- I had to determine the right hand pattern I would use. I tried about four different patterns, but settled on p-a-i-p. It does repeat the thumb when you repeat the pattern, but I found that easier than other patterns that do not.
- There is some bass string damping needed, which is still challenging for me (but less so now than two weeks ago 🙂).
- I'd like to increase the speed a bit, making it almost sound like waves of arpeggios, getting faster and slower.
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Hello guys, hope you're doing great. Here's a quick update on Etude no. 1 after 4 days of pratice. I tried to phrase better the melodic lines as TY says, as well as having a more precise rythm than last week.