Mircea Gogoncea AMA — Left Hand Technique [smoke test marker]
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My second question is: How do you develop your ear training? I want one day that I can replay the melodies of a pop song after hearing it; I heard that signing using solfege did help a lot, what do you think?
My third question is more casual: Who do you think is the best/most influential classical guitarist of our time? Can you name some?
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Hi Mircea
I have a couple of questions.
What exercises would you recommend to improve my fretting accuracy—too often I have buzzing and muted strings because a finger is touching an adjacent string?
I have trouble successfully fretting some barre chords, as in Villa-Lobos’ Etude #1 measure 12, d-string. I need to fiddle with the barring finger to make that note sound. Also, I find that I need to vary the pressure as I play across the strings in order to get all the barred strings to play reliably—probably not a good idea if you need to play fast. Do you have any exercises to address these problems?
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Hi Mircea,
I’m struggling with fast descending slurs (“pull offs”) that requires change in left hand position - specifically in last 2 beats of measure 32 of the Allegro in the Grand Solo of Fernando Sor. What would be a good way to practice sections like these?
Thank you!