
Rene Izquierdo: Workshop + Excerpt MASTERCLASS! (Jan 9)
2021 SPECIAL!
My friends, I have an incredibly special announcement to make!
For his upcoming tonebase Live workshop, Rene Izquierdo will not only be answering your questions from the chat, but also accepting short recorded excerpts from you for a unique, tailor-made masterclass experience!!!
To make this helpful to as many people as possible, we suggest sending in excerpts of single passages, up to 30 seconds in length. This also takes the pressure off of having to perform an entire piece at a time.
If you do want to send in a full recording, that's fine! Let us know what timestamp (minute & second) you would like us to focus on, so we can pay special attention to those.
In addition, you are most certainly open to send in text questions before the masterclass using this very thread!
The format for sending in videos is the same as in all tonebase public masterclasses:
- Submit right here, by replying to this thread!
- (Alternatively, send me your video submission at [email protected])
- You can either attach a video directly from your computer, or paste a link to a YouTube video
- (If you opt to use a YouTube video, it can be unlisted - no need to make it public!)
Find the start time in your time zone by clicking the photo or following this event link:
https://app.tonebase.co/guitar/live/player/rene-izquierdo-excerpt-masterclass
- What questions do you have for him?
- Any particular area you would like him to focus on?
Forum questions will be answered first!
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Just wanted to give a quick heads-up to all of you wonderful folks who sent in videos for the Community Challenge earlier this month: there will be a few chances coming up really soon to send in some more videos for advice & tips & tricks, if that's something you're interested in!
Rene Izquierdo just announced that he will be accepting submissions of short recorded excerpts of difficult passages (preferably under 30 seconds, though longer ones are fine too - see the original post above!) for his livestream on January 9th!
So if you're interested in getting some tailor-made advice from him, now's the chance
use this thread for submissions!
Additionally, submissions are always open for my next virtual masterclass - the sooner we get 2-3 recordings in, the sooner I will put on another virtual masterclass! Here is the dedicated thread.
Just thought you might be interested in this, Roni Glaser Roddy Derek Jaime Giuseppe Gasparini David Chidsey Michael Marek Tabisz André Nardi since I enjoyed listening to you so much in the Community Challenge!
We plan to offer a lot more opportunities for you guys (and everyone else!) to send in recordings for tonebase Live & Community activities soon, and I thought of you guys first!
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Hi Mircea
I wonder if this very rough recording of the tricky part of Barrios Waltz Op8 No 4 could be considered for this live workshop. I've never been able to get this up to speed and I've been trying some revised fingerings following on from your superb left hand workshops. Any advice on left hand fingerings would be gratefully received. Thanks in anticipation Derek
I couldn't upload the video so link to Youtube below
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Hi Mircea,
I have more of a speculation or observation than a question, but I'd like to hear Rene's thoughts about it.
I've been thinking about the previous workshop discussions of "reflexive speed" and wondering why reflexive speed works to break through a speed barrier when incrementally speeding up with a metronome sometimes fails. My engineering background tells me that something must be different in the two movements and that's why the slow movement hits a speed limit. I suppose it's possible that one is playing with less tension if they just "let go" and move the fingers as a group, but I suspect the actual finger movements are different when playing fast. Many of us were taught to play from the large knuckle joint and follow through deep into the palm, but when I observe someone playing a fast tirando, the movement I see is one where the large joint is not following through at all, and sometimes even extending at the moment the string is plucked -- thus preparing the finger to play again, almost simultaneously as the string is plucked. So, that's why I suspect the slow movement can't be sped up, it works just fine at slower speeds, but it's not efficient enough to translate into a fast movement.