Week 3: My heart leaps up! 🌈

Eric Phillips That was beautiful, Eric. The flow and phrasing were excellent, I always love listening to this kind of happy little piece on the guitar. 👍

Wai Thanks, Wai. Ferrer has so many pieces like this, and most are not too difficult.

Eric Phillips I work on two tangos by Ferrer, but its hard for me- far from recording, but as always, you have the composer in your repertoire that I love so much;-) and you do it really well!

Stefanie Mosburger-Dalz I'm discovering a lot of pieces by Ferrer that I like. I'm surprised we hear him so infrequently. Someday, maybe when I retire, I'll be able to play all the music I want to play!

Moyses Lopes Thanks, Moyses.

Eric Phillips yes, thats the hope...these are my hopes...but still 9 years and every joint inflamed sometimes...I bought the books of Shearer after the webinar and work on it dayly to not go the way of my father- guitarrist and guitar teacher -who is not able to play anymore-because the fingers wont move by purpose. So, there is no use waiting for better times. Just playing as it it possible;-)

Wai That is excellent, Wai! I'm really blown away. They say a transcription is good when it seems like it was written for the instrument. By the look of your playing, this looks like it was written for the guitar.

I especially loved the section when you went up the neck and the music was intensifying, around 1:06-1:22. Bravo! 👋

Eric Phillips Thank you, Eric. I am working on a longer version, and hope that I will be able to share it before the end of this Challenge. (the second part is really hard...😵)

Marilyn Blodget Thank you, Marilyn. I am listening to Lesley Garrett's version (which is my favorite vocal version), it covered the first 37 bars of the piano version. I am now working on it, wish me luck.

Jack Stewart Thanks, Jack. I was thinking of Lesley Garrett's version when I start arranging this piece. That version covered the first 37bars of the original but after bar 20, the music became so much harder to transcribe and arrange, so I have to check the piano score for bars 21-37. I have finished the arrangement, and now I am practicing it.

Dale Needles Thank you, Dale. Frankly, the music is too difficult for me to handle, but I really like the vocal version of it, so I decided to share it with the community this month.

Wai sooo beautiful

Stefanie Mosburger-Dalz Thank you 🙂

Moyses Lopes Thank you, Moyses! The first part of the arrangement was comparatively easy and I simplified a lot of things, that's why I could finish it within a week. The second part was very difficult, hope it still sounds good on guitars.