WEEK 2: La Guitarra Espanola! 
Welcome to the Main Thread for the second week of our musical Journey to Spain!! This is the place to share submissions of the second week! 
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↓ HAPPY PRACTICING, HAPPY SHARING ↓
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Aguado - Lesson 40
This is another lesson with a focus on sustaining one voice while other voices move around it. Some of the fingerings are pretty tricky.
After I recorded this, I listened to Segovia's version. He plays it quite a bit slower than I do. I guess he can't keep up with me!
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Martin jajajajaja
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I thought I had posted this a couple of hours ago but I can't have hit the send button. This is a piece by Gaspar Sanz that I started a couple of days ago. I have been studying a book about performing baroque music on the classical guitar, need to put it into practice now I've almost got my fingers round this. It's from a set of pieces arranged by Karl Scheit.
I have a Shadow undersaddle pick up on my guitar and I recorded directly from this into my smartphone. I didn't play the repeats.
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Derek Good work, Derek. The sound was pretty good. I'm guessing that makes the recording process pretty easy (which I like). It has good volume level (which I also like).
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Derek Dear Derek, great piece - I haven't known till now ! I used this pickup too for a long time... but have you tried:
https://www.thomann.de/de/ik_multimedia_irig_acoustic_stage.htm
Irig acoustic stage....
This is a really microphone with preamp and sound adjustments......I love this thing very much ... Using it now for many years on live events in combination with a Fishman-Amp
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Derek nice sound. Nice piece. I know quite a few Sanz pieces, this one is new to me.
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Derek I'm blown away that you've only been working on this a couple days!
Fantastic job! I've been working on Sanz for years and can't seem to get it together. 
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Derek is it a pickup that you put on the bridge? It sounds a bit like a Yamaha Silent Guitar or a Godin Multiac. Thanks for sharing this piece, there are so many!
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Derek Good job, very spirited and fiery!
So cool that you're experimenting with new ways of recording yourself! 
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Derek very nice Derek! I did not know it. Thanks for sharing
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Eric Phillips thank you Eric. I'm not sure that the pick up is as good as a mic linked up to my computer but it's better than the onboard mic on the phone.
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Olli Danke Olli. Ich werde es mir ansehen. Ich Danke ihnen fur ihren rat.
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joosje Thank you Joosje.
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Blaise Laflamme Thanks Blaise. It's a piezo under saddle pick up which has the pre amp attached which fits to the bridge (just below the saddle) with double sided tape
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Martin Danke Martin
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Nora Torres-Nagel Thank you Nora
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Derek Definitely, anything beats those! I'm guessing it is pretty convenient though, just for something quick and easy.
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Dear Community, the time is running and I also want to upload a piece, but I am still practicing
.... you postet so great music - wow - insane . I will upload a renaissance piece after Martins Martin great " how to make a video" advice
... ( Don`t know the correct title at the moment - I mean the workshop tomorrow evening ).
Tonebase is so cool - but for me the really hardest thing is to decide, on what pieces to work and on what challenge or livestream to participate.....
And also the language is a problem !
I can only write clumsy, simple sentences - that is the reason I do not write very much !!! I would write more - really !!!... But that would take so much time - and this is the time I need to practice
Best Regards
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Olli your doing great Olli. I like your wonderful videos and your comments are always nice and to the point. No worries, most of us are not mother tongue English speakers, anyway.
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Olli welcome to the club! I understand you and I'm also looking for my words most of the time, but the good thing is that our community is so forgiving and broad-minded! I have the feeling that I know most of you, while we never met in person, because people here are so generous and respectful and the music we share is not limited by language boundaries.
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joosje hello Joosje, you are right - maybe it takes much more time to write in a foreign language. But the music brings uns together - nether less what language we speak prelimanary
Best Regards - See and hear you
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Blaise Laflamme It is really great that music is an universal speech
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Olli Looking forward for tonight's session on "Intro to Video Editing", this will be definitely a fun one!! I enjoy all of your submissions and thanks to Blaise Laflamme for his beautiful words about our community!
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Olli I'm in the same boat... =)
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A slow and majestic interpretation of the Gaspar Sanz piece "Pavanas". There were a few clams towards the beginning, but I felt this take was worth keeping, as I think there were some beautiful moments that I felt captured the essence of the piece.
I added quite a bit of reverb, as I thought that's how it would sound being played in a cathedral in Spain.
Gaspar Sanz was a composer, guitarist and priest that went to the University of Salamanca in Salamanca Spain. I found a picture of the Cathedral in Salamanca and looked at while rehearsing. It totally changed how I interpret the piece - giving more space at the end of the phrases for the sounds to reverberate throughout a cathedral.
A couple challenges I found with this piece -
- The trill in measure 2 is really difficult to pull off (literally) without hitting, and therefore muting, the open B string.
- The intonation in the ascending C, D, E and F chords towards the end is really bad. After recording this I decided to leave out the doubled octave note, which doesn't seem necessary and is causing the problem.
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Steve Pederson beautiful playing, Steve. Another great piece of this period . Wonderful sound,
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