WEEK 1: Select And Practice Your Piece! 
Welcome to the Main Thread for the first week of the End-Of-The-Year Community Concert Challenge!
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
↓ Reply below with your assignments and questions! ↓
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Sor Op 6 No 12 (Segovia Study 14) December 3
I will not be able to attend either concert, but I couldn't help but want to join this challenge. I have chosen one of my favorite Sor studies to play. Every time I have attempted to play it in the past, I have encountered obstacles that have made me say, "I think I'll put that in the pile of future pieces to play." Well, the future is present! I'll give it my best.
This is a video of measures 1-8 only (and their repeat). The next eight measures still need a lot of work, so this is all I will post for now. This is after about 30 minutes of practice. It still feels clunky, but I can get the notes out, more or less.
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Eric Phillips Woohoo you opened the challenge... now it can begins! Great to see you back here Eric
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Eric Phillips yes, sooo great to see (and hear) you back here. Your first measures of this beautiful study are promising. Can’t wait to hear the progress….
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Eric Phillips Great start! I really love this piece and I'm glad you're doing it! Can't wait to see how it evolves.
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Great to see you back, Eric! This sounds very good already. I know just how you feel about this study - so many awkward spots in such a beautiful piece. I imagine the demands on the left hand would be somewhat less on a period instrument. Looking forward to the 'B' section!
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Sor Op 6 No 12 December 4
Today, I worked on the next section, measures 10-21. The biggest challenge was measure 11. Below is a picture of the score for measures 10-11, with 11 being the tricky part. I went back and forth with different fingering ideas, but have settled on this, at least for now.
I will share three videos.
- This is a video of measures 10-11 (played twice). I have the metronome on 50.
- This is a video of measures 10-11 (played twice again), but after I did a three-minute drill on it. I decided to push the metronome up to 60, which I think is the approximate tempo I want the entire piece to be.
- Then, after more practice, I played all of measures 10-21.
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Eric Phillips Man, that looks tough! Great progress!
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You're back! Glad to see your return. And I see you are in fine form with a plethora of initial videos. I just noticed them now - will listen later today.
Eric Phillips
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Eric Phillips yes, it is more fluent now!!!
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This is my first go for Bach's "Jesu Bleibet Meine Freude". Writing this during the live stream, go watch it if you haven't seen it :)
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martin OMG... that looks so challenging!
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martin totally digging this!
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martin WOW, can’t wait to hear your progress. challenging it is.
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martin love the peace sounds already good! looks hard, I would like to see a part of the score if thats possible
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Martin Thanks for sharing this inspiration Martin. And thanks for your return to the livestream to answer my belated question.
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martin I congratulate you already on having another go at the extraordinary (and extraordinarily difficult) piece of music!
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Eric Phillips Thank you so much and so good to see you back here!
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martin That piece is a beast. Very cool.
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Sor Op 6 No 12 measures 1-21 Dec 5
Now I am giving a go to the entire A section of the piece (the major section). Several botched notes and clunky feel, but I think I'm slowly progressing.
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Eric Phillips great job Eric
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Eric Phillips this sounds already very well!
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Eric Phillips that sounds already great!
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Eric Phillips I'm REALLY enjoying listening to this!
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Hi Matin I would like to play Canarios by Gaspar Sanz for the end of the year concert.
here is my first attempt
thanks Vilio
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Vilio Celli sorry Martin
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