Week 4: Prepare for Landing! ✈
Welcome to the Main Thread for the fourth week of the "Guitar Music of the World" practice challenge!
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Hi, folks! I guess that's my last post of 'Scherzino' in this challenge. Not because the work is completely done, but because this piece needs more time to mature in my hands and my head. This week (Wednesday, to be exact) I had an accident with my thumb nail, in the comments I will post some photos of the accident and the repair. Maybe it will be useful for someone.
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How soon do these weeks come around! I was hoping to do more on Week 3 and here we are in week 4 already. I had a couple of hours spare this morning so managed to do a couple of recordings. Here is the first. It's a simple but lovely little piece by the English guitarist and composer and teacher Yvonne Bloor. It's called Chanson and was written in about 2010. in addition to the squeaks from the fingerboard the audio is enhanced in places with the sound of a creaking door.
I messed up the coda originally and rerecorded it and added it to the end of the original recording - you can hear the gap!
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Here's the second recording today. My original understanding of the challenge was that we played the music of our own country. Not sure if that's correct or not but my mother in law was Austrian so that's my excuse for including a piece by the early 20th century Austrian composer Alfred Uhl. It's from '10 Pieces for Guitar' dedicated to Karl Scheit. I used to play this many years ago but I've decided to revisit it as a study piece as I think it's useful for practising various techniques.
As in the previous piece, I messed up the end and rerecorded it but this time I don't think you can hear the join :-)