WEEK TWO Updates: Main Thread - Following the Path to Tárrega
Alright, welcome to WEEK TWO of the Main Thread for this challenge! 💪
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- One thing you found easy:
- One thing you found difficult:
- (Optional): a video of you performing it!
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Hi, this is my first take of the A section of Capricho Arabe. The techniques I've learn over the past few weeks are beginning to help as this was my first take video. I decided to keep all the mistakes and hesitations in so I can see this as a reference - it will be interesting to see my progress in another two weeks. Kind Regards Dennis
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Dear all,
thanks a lot for your videos, which are hugely inspirational for me. I kept on working on Lagrima, and started working on the second part. Thanks to your encouragements and advice, the first part started to be a bit more fluid. The shift movement is still too much from the hand and not enough from the elbow... (but I’ll work on that Martin!)
one easy thing: tuning the guitar before I practice. With a tuner app of course. 🤔
one thing I found difficult: well the second part is much more dynamic and complex than the first, so I am still trying to not stop for several seconds in the middle, looking for the next position....
take care,
didier
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I decided to record Recuerdos de La Alhambra. It's one of my all time favourite pieces. I started studying it in 2020 but I have discovered that it is quite challenging to play convincingly. Sorry it's quite long because I played all the repeats. I recorded this one on my flamenco guitar and classical guitar but felt that the flamenco guitar sounded slightly better somehow so that's the one I attached here.
- One thing you found easy: Nothing about it is easy! Well I suppose the chords aren't really that difficult if it weren't for all the tremolo...hahahaha
- One thing you found difficult: The slurs are quite difficult to pull off even after I have practiced them quite a bit. I need to do a bit more targetted work there! I find I sometimes don't properly finish the tremolo before shifting. It's challenging to keep a consistent tremolo througout and to get a nice warm tone. I found the recordings difficult to listen to because the sound of the tremolo sounds quite harsh so not sure if the microphone is too close or it's just my playing!