7 Ejercicios Previos - Abel Carlevaro
I was planning to practice Abel Carlevaro's Microestudios, but the version I bought came with 7 "Preliminary Exercises". I am a "start with page 1" type of person, so I decided to start with these preliminary exercises first and found out they were quite amazing!
The first 3 exercises are mainly for the thumb, but there are always some interesting movements on the left hand as well. I could really see and feel how the Master incorporated those essential finger movements in the exercises, and practicing them really made me think more about how I move my should, elbow, and wrist than fingers only.
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Ejercicios Previos 02
No. 2 has a different rhythmic pattern, but I think the most challenging part is the rest note. Bass notes tend to last longer, so I had to mute them at the start of every bar, that was easier said than done.
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Ejercicios Previos 03
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Wai Welcome to the world of Carlevaro! I propose you to buy his technical books and the amazing School of guitar book where every concepts are explained in details. Once you start integrating more with extensions and fixations, fingers > wrist > elbow > shoulder, and combined with an appropriate instrument position, you can achieve a lot by using relevant articulations.
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Blaise Laflamme Thanks, Blaise. My teacher introduced the Cuaderno (book 3) to me when I first learned classical guitar many many years ago (damn, I am old now...), it helped me tremendously! That's why Carlevaro's method always has a special place in my heart. All 4 Cuadernos and the School of Guitar are very difficult to find, even if you found them, they were ridiculously expensive. Fortunately, I found a course in Tonebase based on Cuaderno book 3, now I am practicing the Tonebase course along with this Microestudios.
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Wai that's great your teacher gave you a contact with this book, that would have been great if you had a chance to get book 2 for right hand, it has changed my life! I was lucky enough to get all of them in early 90' when they were all widely available, but not cheap at all. I was not aware of the Tonebase course on Carlevaro's books, I'll take a look.
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Blaise Laflamme The Tonebase course is called "Carlevaro Left Hand Technique Course"
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Ejercicios Previos no. 1-4 are very similar, no. 1-3 focused on the thumb movement, and no.4 combined both bass and melody movement.
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No. 6 started to sound like a real tune, really like this one, and no.7. The combination of basses and melodies in both pieces is very interesting and unique.
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Yeah! After following the instruction of Phil Goldenberg's 3min practice method, I could finally play the No.5 reasonably steady. I will dive into the Microestuios next!
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