WEEK 4: Fernando Sor for Everyone!!

Wow! What great progress, Jim. Your performance is very fluid and well phrased. 

I would suggest that you work on right hand preparation which involves planting your RH fingers before playing them. There are several very good lessons available here on that topic. I use a set of exercises by Mircea that I use as a daily practice. I find them very helpful.

Jim King  Nicely done Jim. You made great progress. This very nice piece is on my work list for next year. 

Jack Stewart  Jack, could you provide the link of the lesson or course with the exercises on the subject of planting your fingers? This could be very useful for me.

Andre Bernier Here is Mircea's RH Preparation: https://app.tonebase.co/guitar/courses/player/mircea-gogoncea-teaches-intro-to-rh-preparation-pt

I use his 'moveable chord'  exercise for warm up. I began by just holding the E major chord (strings 1-4 only) and play as a block chord, planting all fingers before playing. I then accent each RH finger as I play the block chords. This helps learning to accent certain notes in a melody / accompaniment arrangement, or separating lines in counterpoint. After going thru Mircea's exercise I then do the same with Villa-Lobos etude 1 arpeggio pattern just on the e minor chord. I plant fingers before playing each pattern and then I accent each RH finger during each pattern.  I accent first the thumb every time it plays, then the 'I' finger (this one is challenging), then 'm' and then 'a'. I do this using a metronome as slow as I need to play smoothly. 

I hope this helps (and makes sense.)

Some others: 

Thomas Viloteau: 

https://app.tonebase.co/guitar/library?tbModal=courseModal&tbModalSlug=thomas-viloteau-teaches-right-hand-technique-technique-lesson

Scott Tenant:

https://app.tonebase.co/guitar/library/skills/technique-and-skills/right-hand?tbModal=courseModal&tbModalSlug=scott-tennant-30-day-right-hand-basics-course-beginner-to-intermediate

Jack Stewart Thank you Jack.  In the time leading up to this posting, I was focusing on phrasing and flow, as well as tempo.  I wasn't so sure that the phrasing came out very well.  Thank you for the confirmation.

As for the RH preparation, it is interesting that I have been practicing planting all fingers in my technique exercises but I haven't incorporated it into my repertoire playing.  Thank you for pointing that out.  I'll need to pay more attention to this. 

Eric Phillips Thank you Eric.  Feels good to start to bringing these qualities out in my playing.

Andre Bernier Thank you Andre.  It is a challenging piece for our level, but very enjoyable.  As you probably know, there is a TB lesson on this piece which is helpful.

Andre Bernier As for the exercises that Jack Stewart is mentioning re planting your fingers, Werner also has exercises to practice this in his classical guitar technique book, along with a lot of other exercises.

Jack Stewart Thank you for posting those links to Andre Bernier on RH preparation.   I am sure I will find them useful as well.

Jack Stewart Thanks Jack, I did bookmark these courses and will include them in my learning program. I am sure this will help me